SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cultural Homogenization, Digital Divide, Limited Government

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Social, economic, political process that makes it easier for people, goods, ideas, capital to travel. Multidimensional modes and processes and globalizing agents. Neo-liberalism: limited government intervention in economic matters. Smith: if market is left alone, it will bring prosperity. John keynes: need government or else inequality grows wo management. No true free market, but economic globalization is about it: techno, cultural: exchanging culture (global village) Networked individualism (wellman: place place, person person, networked but individual. Wesch: individual, but stronger need to belong: fakeness: need for authentic videos that aren"t commercials. Globalization = homogenization: cultural homogenization and lack of diversity. Globalization = hybridization: 2 different things to make hybrid, culture melange: forms new types of identity. Cultural imperialism: (tomlinson, harvey, jameson: diversity is decreasing bc of us power making it harder for cultural originals. Glocalization: (robertson: homogenization and heterogenization, globalized things given local flavor. Global stratification: unequal distribution of wealth, power globally.