SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blue-Collar Worker, Toronto District School Board, Canadian Passport
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In today"s terms, we can have a skype conversation with someone for free: whereas before (1930s), in order to have a very short conversation, you"d have to pay a huge cost. In the past, nike products were manufactured only in america, but now they are made abroad (worldwide) due to low labor costs. In order for us to have globalization, all three of these things have to be available: they are contingent upon one another, and do not work independently. Homogenization: mcdonaldization - it affects every single element of our social world, however, many of these arguments assume that we are talking about passive people. For example, there is no poutine in a mcdonalds in a country where poutine is not popular: taco bell in mexico was not going to be a profitable business (mexicans do not consider taco. Furthermore, places like france and germany are more similar and are often competing for the benefit of one.
