How do global influences affect people's everday life? This book reveals how such key concepts as community, culture, class, poverty and identity can be reconceptualized in the concept of global/local processes.

1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS: COMMUNITY, CULTURE AND MILIEU 3 TRAVELLING BEYOND LOCAL CULTURES: SOCIOSCAPES IN A GLOBAL CITY 4 THE DELINKING OF LOCALE AND MILIEU: ON THE SITUATEDNESS OF EXTENDED MILIEUX IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT 5 WORKING-CLASS CULTURE: LOCAL COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL CONDITIONS 6 LOCAL LIVES-DISTANT TIES: RESEARCHING COMMUNITY UNDER GLOBALIZED CONDITIONS 7 RETHINKING POVERTY IN GLOBALIZED CONDITIONS 8 RECONSTRUCTING PLACES: CHANGING IMAGES OF LOCALITY IN DOCKLANDS AND SPITALFIELDS 9 IDENTITY, NATION AND RELIGION: EDUCATED YOUNG BANGLADESHIS IN LONDON'S EAST END 10 'TRIBAL ARTS': A CASE STUDY OF GLOBAL COMPRESSION IN THE NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL

John Eade is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at Southlands College, Roehampton Institute.