SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Cultural Imperialism, World-Systems Theory
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Lecture 4 the diffusion of inequalities: individual and global. Parable of grocer and chief: how traditional society passed away. 1950 tradition represented by village chief (not represented in modernity) Modernity grocer: city-like, lives in different world (expansive world populated more actively with fantasies, hunting for the unfamiliar) Old order: find new ideas threatening and dangerous (pope in philippines: beware of. Western gay rights that destroy family, that"s why i call it colonization) Change that is easy to see, from major states to lower. Slave labourers shipped from africa to americas (peripheral to semi-peripheral) Agricultural products from americas to europe (semi-peripheral to core) Manufactured products from europe to rest of the world (core to peripheral and semi) Powerful societies send ideas and information to less powerful societies. Always unequal, news from center overwhelms news from periphery. Increasingly influential corporate entities: global economic interdependence. 2: declining nation-states, scientific and technological innovation, polycentric (mixed) cultures, homogenized and modernized (individualistic desire grocer) human ambitions.