SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Walmart, Exxonmobil
24 May 2014
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Globalisation: complex chains of interdependencies that link the local and the global: eg. Osama bin laden filmed a video in afghanistan, had an ak47 from. Russia, posted the video in qatar, wore a timex watch made in us. Globality: social condition characterized by global interconnections that make. Increasing interdependent relationship between local and global social life borders irrelevant (end product) Globalisation: set of social processes that produce globality (process that gets us there) Connected to places far away from us. There"s an assumption that globalisation is a process (fluid) Intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities: means that local happenings are shaped by the global activities. 3: awareness of decreasing importance of boundaries/distances time-space compression, spaces seem to less far away, time seems to be faster because we can see things as they"re happening, boundaries no longer make a big difference (eg.
