SOCI 1F90 Lecture : lecture globalization.docx
18 Apr 2012
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Complex chains of interdependencies that link the local and the global. Globalization can be defined by osama bin laden . Captured increasingly interdependent nature of social life. Globality: social condition characterized by global interconnections and flows that make many existing borders and boundaries irrelevant. Globalization: set of social processes that produce globality. The term refers to a set of social processes that transform our social condition into one of globality (creates social change) It"s the end product or social outcome of multiple interconnections (economic, political, cultural, and environmental) Phenomenon referred to as cosmopolitism: multidimensional: economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental aspects; no single domain. Globalization is a multidimensional set of social processes that creates, multiplies, stretches and intensifies world-wide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the make time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections of the local and the global. Unevenness of globalization: global processes affect people living in different parts of the world differently.
