POLI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Homogenization

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 200
• Professor: Manuel Balan

Document Summary

Guest lecture (vincent boulot) - globalization: globalization: the process where relations become delinked from territorial geography, so that human lives are increasingly played out in the world as a single place. Internet globalization: facebook and other social media is an example of globalization where relationships around the world are made easier, has empowered individuals on the global scale. Interdependence i: we are increasingly more sensitive and vulnerable to what happens in the world due to this globalization means a growing interdependence due to imports and exports interdependence and the affect of places on each other. Political projects - ideology of it i: globalization is inevitable and irreversible iii. furthers the spread of democracy in the world > this statement is questioned by scholars. Problems: con icts, health issues with people moving around and products, global warming, sovereign states have trouble with accepting globalization because it interferes with their independence but there is no way around it.