SOCY 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: United States Constitution, Glocalization, Class Consciousness
3 Jul 2016
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What are multinational corporations (mncs: companies with operations in more than 1 country, devolution of power circuit. Shift from the nation state to multinational corporations: westphalia, population management (census, birth registration, access to social services etc. , ideology, collective imperialism (carrol p. 136), fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution. How do we study corporations sociologically: essentialist concepts/methods, classical tradition. The nature of power: liberal-minded, ideology (but what is it?) Homogeneous hegemony: heterogeneous hegemony, brand name vs glocalization. Homogeneity vs heterogeneity vs hegemony: sameness vs difference vs legitimation of sameness or difference. The nature of power: liberal-minded, ideology (but what is it?, homogeneous hegemony, heterogeneous hegemony, brand name vs glocalization, glocalization or an illusion, global governance. The nature of power: global governance: codes of conduct, labour practices, safety standards. Individual agency: do mncs give us individual choice on our terms, state governance vs corporate governance, political legitimacy, bureaucratic authority, police.
