SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Alexis De Tocqueville, Political Sociology, Arab Spring
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Political participation: political sociology is the relationship between states, citizens, intersection between political science and sociology, globalization can be defined as a social, economic, and political process that makes it easier for people, good, ideas, and capital to travel around the world at an unprecedented pace. , globalization makes the world feel, and look smaller, the movement of good and products: people begin to have similar tastes because the world, in a sense is smaller because it is easier to transport things around, lot"s of debate when it comes to political sociology and globalization, mohamed bouazizi: was selling fruit to make a living, his cart was taken away because he didn"t have a license to sell the fruit, he was so outraged and upset that he set himself on fire, this caused a major up rise in many arab nations.
