POLSCI 2H03 Lecture : Wk 5_
6 Apr 2014
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Free flow of goods just like in late 18th and 19th centuries. A process or set of processes which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power. In late 1970s new social relations at poltical scale. The whole world is a skin for social relation. Globalization cannot be defined as any one alone. Individualistic: social actors such as politicians, business, scientists are driving force of. Structuralist: institutions, social structures like state system and capitalism. Structurationist: interaction btwn structure and agency globalization not just one thing. Transformation of structure and agency in global era. Occupy wall street, gezi protests in istanbul, strikes in brazil. Social links between people at anywhere in the earth. Planet earth is a social arena no only smaller units in it. We are living in a world of transworld simultaneity.
