SOCIOL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Industrial Revolution
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Because it helps us understand how the past affects globalization today. Because it helps us understand what is new/different about today"s globalization. Because it helps us imagine how today"s globalization might unfold in the future. In many ways, people and places around the world have been connected for millennia. Ancient trade routes - e. g. silk road. Migration e. g. all historical migration to the us. At least two major prior waves isn"t clear cut. Because of this long history of global connections, dating historical globalization. Following lechner reading for today, we"ll focus on two major historical waves of globalization and how they started to make the world more of a single place . We"ll then introduce the third wave i. e. contemporary globalization! Thinking about the history of globalization in terms of waves is useful. But waves means also difference, new elements in each wave of. Looks at historical waves of globalization through the lens of globalized food production and consumption.
