SOC354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Archaic Globalization, Christopher Bayly, Immanence
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Globalization has developed from immanent forces like modernity and capitalist industrialization. Globalization is not beyond the control of human agencies. There is an urgency to make decisions and resolve conflicts to secure the future of us humans. According to albrow, globalization refers to all those processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single society, global society. They impact different locations, countries and individuals in a highly uneven manner. It has been happening at an accelerating rate. Globalization is best understood as a set of mutually reinforcing transformations that occur more or less simultaneously. No single one of these transformations is more significant than the other. (example like a number of threads being woven into a length of multi-colored fabric. Globalization: the processes in which humans of the world are incorporated into. We are interconnected in some way or another: changing concepts of space and time.
