Roland Robertson (August 7, 1938 - April 29, 2022) was a sociologist and theorist of globalization who lectured at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Formerly, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1988 he was the President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.
Robertson's theories have focused significantly on a more phenomenological and psycho-social approach than that of more materialist oriented theorists such as Immanuel Wallerstein or Fredric Jameson. For Robertson, the most interesting aspect of the modern (or postmodern) era is the way in which a global consciousness has developed. He lays down a progression of "phases" that capture the central aspects of different eras in global history, asserting that the fifth phase, Global Uncertainty, has been reached.
Robertson's main works are Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (1992) and the edited volume Global Modernities. In 1985, he was the first sociologist to use the term globalization in the title of a sociological article.[1] His 1992 definition of globalization as "the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole"[1] has been credited as the first ever definition of globalization,[2] though a more detailed analysis of the history of this term indicates it has many authors.[3] He is also said to have coined the term glocalization in 1992.[4]
^ abAnthony R. Welch (30 March 2006). The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession. Springer. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-4020-3383-4. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
^Protas Opondo Okwalo (2008). Conversation: An Approach to Faith Formation for Adults in a Kenyan Context. ProQuest. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-549-67690-4. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
^Jan Aart Scholte (5 August 2005). Globalization: A Critical Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-230-36801-9. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
^B. Kumaravadivelu (2008). Cultural Globalization and Language Education. Yale University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-300-11110-1. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
RolandRobertson (August 7, 1938 - April 29, 2022) was a sociologist and theorist of globalization who lectured at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland...
globality was introduced in the social sciences by British sociologist RolandRobertson. It signifies the spreading and deepening consciousness of the world-as-a-whole...
1982. p. 53. RolandRobertson, "The Central Significance of 'religion' in Social Theory: Parsons as an epical theorist." In RolandRobertson and Bryan S...
Perspectives, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 0275979237, p. 218. RolandRobertson, Victor Roudometof, Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The...
Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans. Forward by RolandRobertson. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31949-5. Mарков, Георги...
2011. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Robertson, Roland (1 January 2003). RolandRobertson; Kathleen E. White (eds.). Globalization: Culture...
Trinity Mirror Midlands. Retrieved 25 January 2014. Robertson, Peter (10 August 2002). "Home truths: Roland Gift". The Mirror. Trinity Mirror. Archived from...
conference on "Globalization and Indigenous Culture", sociologist RolandRobertson stated that glocalization "means the simultaneity – the co-presence...
original on August 8, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2010. Mouly, Ruth, and RolandRobertson. “Zionism in American Premillenarian Fundamentalism.” American Journal...
Conflict in the Balkans, p. 145, at Google Books, Victor Roudometof, RolandRobertson, p. 145 "Though Loza adhered to the Bulgarian position on the issue...
Translated by Carol Cosman. ISBN 0-19-954012-8. Inglis, David and RolandRobertson. 2008. "The Elementary Forms of Globality: Durkheim on the Emergence...
2307/2657298. JSTOR 2657298. John Boli (2006). "World Polity Theory". In RolandRobertson; Jan Aart Scholte (eds.). Encyclopedia of Globalization. Routledge...
shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa." In 1992, RolandRobertson, professor of sociology at the University of Aberdeen and an early...
American sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Bolivian sociologist RolandRobertson, British sociologist William I. Robinson, American sociologist Guy...
he would restore the Souliotes to their land." Victor Roudometof, RolandRobertson (2001), Nationalism, globalization, and orthodoxy: the social origins...
collaborated with Italian and German occupying forces". Victor Roudometof; RolandRobertson (2001). Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins...
University Press, 1960, ISBN 9780691058412, p. 25. Victor Roudometof; RolandRobertson (2001). Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins...
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Smyris 2000, p. 39. Fleming 1999, pp. 59, 63. Victor Roudometof; RolandRobertson (2001), Nationalism, globalization, and orthodoxy: the social origins...
concept was introduced to the Western world by British sociologist RolandRobertson in the early 1990s. As explained by Hartwig Vens in his article in...
the Possibilities of Governance. Paul Hirst , Grahame Thompson" by RolandRobertson, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 102, No. 4, (1997) Hirst, Paul...
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Academic Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-903900-78-9. Victor Roudometof; RolandRobertson (2001). Nationalism, globalization, and orthodoxy: the social origins...
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