Lechner

Frank Lechner, Professor of Sociology

“I contacted the Author Development Program because I wanted to reach new audiences by writing less academic-style prose. It was the right move: by helping me to polish my style and refine my drafts, the program made my recent books a lot more readable.”

Frank Lechner
Professor of Sociology

Read more about Dr. Lechner’s recent books at Routledge and Wiley-Blackwell’s sites.

Globalization: The Making of World Society (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

“Globalization: The Making of World Society is a stimulating, state-of-the-art text for any student of globalization, beginner or advanced. This work makes a big, abstract topic very accessible through illustration with everyday experience. It is thorough and scholarly but written with a readable style and delves into timely, controversial issues and debates – impact of migration, global inequality, cultural homogeneity.”

The Netherlands: Globalization and National Identity (Routledge, 2008).

“The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European and Islamic cultures. Perhaps the most secular nation in the world, it now houses a very large Islamic population. That population is the fruit of globalization, and how the Dutch have responded to this broad cultural shift tells us a great deal about the changing nature of national identity in the age of globalization. In particular, Frank Lechner explains how globalization calls forth very particularistic and localist responses. Along with providing a broad overview of the contemporary Netherlands, Lechner focuses on how globalization is generating new discourses, cultures, and state policies. Among other topics, the book features chapters on soccer culture, religion (and the lack thereof), the media, the welfare state, multiculturalism, and the Netherlands place in the larger European Union.”