SOCY 226 Lecture 12: SOCY227 – Week Twelve

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: Martin Hand

Document Summary

E. g. the removal of religion from everyday life; how does this change our relationship with one another and broader society. You can see things like globalizing forces accelerate people"s ability to move freely around the world, the advancement of scientific knowledge. Yet, it can increase the global spread of infectious disease, human trafficking and global warming. It produces all sorts of problems, but allows for many advantages. New forms of identity and belonging; the politics that comes with that. A scaled down idea of what we think is good- what we think as progress may not be Its something born in the west and spreads outwards through the world. All societies will go through this process at some point. This may not be true, other societies may react differently and go through similar processes with different origins. Brings increase in religious rights and individual rights but not the same as western. Driven by the rural peasant population, not the urban.