GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ecumene, Ummah, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
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Core concepts: globality and g(local)ization: globality as a social condition. Many different insigts and parts of what globality entails (ex. Some would say it"s the flow of people/immigrants, economists would say it"s the flow of money, etc. ) Physical borders are becoming less relevant than they were. Globalization is also a process of transformations. External, material social processes that appear to be changing our modern world into a new social condition (economic, political changes) Involves internal, subjective consciousness about the human race as one people and the world as our home (intellectual changes: globalization and localization: opposing tendencies, simultaneously. Interconnectedness of people (everyone flying from different parts of the country to watch and play) Ideological, political and economic aspects that go into huge events like this. Economic aspect of the olympics is controversial (spending millions of dollars on the games when there are people hungry every night) Roi (return on investment) never goes to the vulnerable in the country.
