SOC354H5 Lecture 7: SOC354 lecture 7 notes
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Soc354 march 1st were supposed to act. Cosmopolitanism vs. nativism as ideal types: moving from structure, to questions of identity, thus how we act and how, wright mills: The current global structure and possible futures, trajectories. Media information and communication technology and culture their connections, via the consumption of global commodities, ideas and (cid:498)ideologies(cid:499) to agency, issues of (cid:498)identity(cid:499), (cid:498)cosmopolitanism(cid:499), (cid:498)nativism"s(cid:499) of various kinds. The current global social structure: legacy of bretton woods wto with global. The cost of (cid:498)empire(cid:499), internal unbelievable social inequality despite formally strong jurisdiction, american dollar as the exchange currency, world bank and imf. Wto is not just a partnership you can walk away from, once your in your in. Without it you are lacking access to trade. Tpp, bring together the nations, but the impacts to social exchange. Bitcoins, the question to challenge american currency, not connected to a national institution, and access to dark underground markets.
