SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World-Systems Theory, Child Slavery
20 Feb 2015
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Nation-state (basis for us to talk about globalization) has sovereign powers. Each state controls affairs in its own territory. Other states cannot interfere in state"s business. Globalization undermines sovereignty of states (undercuts power of a state to control things in its territory) Economically: power of tnc"s forces of world market. Politically: international bodies and law (un, eu) global protest movements. Culturally: cultural influences from all over world trans-national media shifting loyalties timmies or starbucks/apple or android. Giddens says the dis-embedding of social relations . Social relations transformed from purely local or national to more global. Dispersal of populations across globe: migrations and diasporas. Basically, time and distance no longer matters. Positive whole world shares same ideas and values (world cup, olympics) The domination of american consumer brands (mcdonalds, nike, coca-cola, Global culture homogenisation (same goods everywhere, same ways of thinking everywhere) Imbalance of cultural flows from core to periphery , not vice versa (world.
