GS101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 87 pages long!)
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Gs 101 - a: lecture: tuesday, september 12th and thursday sept 14th. Global studies: an interdisciplinary understanding of different dimensions of our present condition. Globality signifies: a social condition characterized by tight global, economic, political, cultural and environmental interconnections and flows that make most of the currently existing borders irrelevant (steger, 11). Movement of people on a global level, unprecedented pace of movement around the world, good are moving as well, ideas and innovation, germs, diseases, viruses. Or is it more of the same, the continuation of the unfinished project of modernity? . The extension of the logic of modernity on a global scale. Maybe there is nothing new, continuation of a logic in place for centuries. Does it mark the past or show radical change. A set of external, material, social processes that appear to be changing our modern world into a new social condition that steger calls globality.
