SCLG2616 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Berlin Wall, Transnationalism, Iron Curtain
20 Jan 2019
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1 & 2 pdf pls read and get questions. Boli and petrova, globalization today pdf pls read. Is globalisation a thing or is it an academic term that academics are using to explain other things (a specific economic interaction for example). Globalisation a term for a set of phenomena. Globalisation from above (governments, corp, power distinctions) and below (citizen based, civil society. Flows- pathways, channels, gravity (all water flows downhill- a force is acting on it eg: in the social world its power) \ In the same process, everyone is invested in different things-so they argue from different viewpoints and our judgements are tied up at different points in the process. Globalisation hops- does not treat everywhere the same-skips over some places. Ritzer and dean use metaphors to create a vivid sense of globalisation. Solids are used to describe epochs before the global era, where people, information and places have limited mobility, strong resistance to change and barriers.
