SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Small Claims Court, Class Discrimination, Neoliberalism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Globalization & neoliberalism (3, 6, 54, 57) (1) media ownership (chapter 3) Public media: media owned and companies owned by the state, paid for by taxes threatened by neoliberalism and politics. Tell canadian stories, support canadian talent, educate canadians. 4) the cbc"s loss of hockey night in canada. Company owns multiple different parts in the media production and distribution. Decline in public and individual ownership, and increase in conglomerate ownership (2) globalization. Fordism: the fordist system of manufacturing and marketing strove to maximize profits by making one commodity appeal to as many consumers as possible for as long as possible (jordan, p. 517). Post-fordism: capitalism responds to the global flow of labor and consumption markets within and between nation-states by transforming local and regional cultures into market segments and mobilizing citizens as consumers (p. 517). Economic implications: media empires, media production: Media consumption: political persuasion, cultural norms & ideologies: nation, race, gender, childhood (3) neoliberalism.