Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology)

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Entering the Transnational World
	Scope and Main Argument
	Bringing the Regional Scale In
	Outline of the Book
	What May Be Gained?
2. Four Paths toward a Comparative Sociology of Regional Integration
	Coming from Below: The Burst of the National Container
		Transnationalism—a Local Phenomenon?
		Transnationalism—a Global Phenomenon?
		The Missing Closure Dimension of “Transnational”
	Coming from Above: The Granfalloon of World Society
		Wallerstein’s World-System
		Meyer’s World Polity
		Luhmann’s World Society
		Inside a Granfalloon: Uncovering the Internal Structure
 of World Society
	Coming from Europe: The Particularism of “Europeanization”
		Europe—Concept or Case?
		“Europeanization” as “Regionalization in Europe”
		Toward a Comparative-Universalist Alternative
		Learning from the Limitations of the Sociology of Europe
	Coming from Politics: The Beacon of Comparative Regionalism
		Early Comparative Approaches to Regionalism in Political Science
		The Latest Wave of Comparative Regionalism in Political Science
		Is There Really No Sociological Equivalent?
		The Missing Fourth Leg of the Elephant
3. The Regionalized Structure of Transnational Human Activity, 1960–2010
	An Increasingly Interconnected World?
	The Transnational World as a Square
	Comparing Regionalism across Time, Regions, and Activity Types
	Absolute Regionalization
		Absolute Globalization
		Relative Regionalization
		Relative Globalization
	Results for Alternative Constellations of Regions
	Letting the Algorithm Speak
	Summary and Discussion
Color Plates
4. Why Does Regionalism Occur in Transnational Human Activity?
	Culture, Politics, Economics, or Geography
		Cultural and Historical Factors
		Economic and Technological Factors
		Political and Legal Factors
		Geographic and Control Factors
	Toward a Comprehensive Explanatory Model
	Why Regionalism Occurs in Transnational Human Activity
	Differences between Activity Types
	Differences between World Regions
	Summary and Discussion
5. The Spatial Structure of Transnational Human Activity
	Sharks, Lévy Flights, and Power-Laws
	Death of Distance? Distance Decay?
	A Comparative Theory of Transnational Human Activity’s Spatial Structure
	The Current Spatial Structure of Transnational Human Activity
	Developments Over Time
	Comparing Motion Patterns across Species and Scales
		One-Dimensional Analysis: The Ostensible Mean-Clustering
		Two-Dimensional Analysis: The Meta-Power-Law of Mobility
	Summary and Discussion
6. Lessons: Mobilization, Not Globalization
	Implications
		A Specification of the Meaning of “Transnational”
		The Limited Influence of the Economic World-System’s Core-Periphery Structure
		The Persistence of Segmentary Differentiation in World Society
		Toward a Symmetric Sociology of Regional Integration
		The Non-Death of Distance and the Exaggeration of Globalization
		Going Beyond Random Search Optimization Theory
		Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
		Challenging Sociology’s Anthropocentrism
		Making Space for Space in Sociology
	Outlook
		Bringing Inequality Back In
		From Activity to Attitudes
		Toward a Multiparadigmatic Comparative Sociology of Regional Integration
	A Missing Piece in a Fundamental Puzzle of the Social World?
Appendix
	Additional Information about the Data Used in This Book
	A Formal Conceptualization of Regionalization and Globalization
	Robustness Check I: Results for Alternative Cut-Off Points
	Robustness Check II: Cluster Adequacy Tests
Notes
References
Index