SOCY 225 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cultural Globalization, Economic Globalization, Social Change

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 225
• Professor: Sachil Singh

Document Summary

Globalization: the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and world-space (steger: intersection between the social, political and economic. What is a sociological study of globalization: social relations of power: institutional legitimacy, the ways in which ideas come to dominate the culture, social change. Change from one formation to another, pace of change, intensified, expanded: social institutions. Economy: the ways in which the world bank, imf came to be, governance: the nation state, marketing: major companies and how they succeed. Domestication and imperialism gave us the understanding of how globalization came to be. Theory and ideology gave us the ability study globalization and break it down: dimensions. Colonialism, imperialism, economic globalization, political globalization, cultural globalization. Breakdown to show the intersection of these factors making up globalization: social dis/advantage. Icts, corporate governance food culture, gmos, social movements. There is always going to be groups who are advantaged through globalization and those who are disadvantaged.