SOC 103 Lecture 9: SOC 103- Week 9 notes
13 Feb 2017
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The worldwide exchange of money, goods, and services as well as the socio- cultural changes that occur as a result. Also refers to the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across word-time and world-space; focuses on living in a global village. Neither definitions suggest whether globalization is a good or a bad thing. Stands for much of the western enlightenment agenda of free markets and corporate property rights. Notably missing are the goals of democracy, quality, and solidarity. Early international trade and exploration and colonialism (16th century, 1500s to. In the early 1500s, this was a moment when countries in western europe and. Asia started exploring the world to get raw resources, colonizing other countries. Processes of colonization and the transatlantic slave trade were born out of capitalism as a motive production: stealing resources from other countries, accumulating wealth as a result. Ideas about race also started to take off in this time period.
