GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Exact Sciences, Glocalization, Ancient Greek Philosophy
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We are trying to decipher the signs of the times: this is not an exact science. Ones views of the current state of the world is informed by ones perspective on things, much like the story of the blind men describing the elephant. Global studies: an inter- disciplinary understanding of different dimensions of our present condition. Are we entering a new era, a new epoch beyond the modern era. If the modern condition is known as modernity, should the post modern condition be called. Globality signi es a social condition characterized by tight global economic, political, cultural and environmental interconnections and ows that make most of the currently existing borders irrelevant (steger,11) The extension of the logic of modernity on a global scale. Globalization refers to a set of external, material social processes that appear to be changing our modern world into a new social condition that steger calls globally.
