SOC 2151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Multilateralism, Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Transatlantic Communications Cable

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2151
• Professor: Aline A Coutinho

Document Summary

World wars, transatlantic telephone cables (satellite telstar), satellite picture of the earth, terrorist attacks. These events make people feel connected to one another because they demonstrate the increase in flows. The united states as a global power within international relations, the emergence of multinational corporations (mncs), the demise of the soviet union and the end of the. Ritzer and dean believe that globalization is a recent phenomenon. Globalization is a relatively recent development with it major points of origin occurring after the close of wwii. ". Some changes from 1970s: new systems of production, finance, and consumption, transnational institutions, new governance, and new actors; we are no longer just talking about nation-states, new patterns of movement and connectivity of peoples, new social hierarchies. Sociology: wide view of globalization, various levels: social structures, culture, everyday life and practices, and institutions. Anthropology: focus on culture: deterritorialization and reinsertion. What causes globalization, the increase of flows: modernity and postmodernity.