GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Globalization, Consumerism, Culture
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Lecture 2 (sept 12: globality as a social condition, most of the issues that we deal with are not yet settled. We don"t know what we are dealing with. Depends on our own disciplinary training: economist will think of globalization as economic funds, political scientist will think about erosion or re-emergence, weakness of the nation space, sociologist; cultural, interaction, conflicts. English is the most prevalent language and it has consequences in the world. Without it you won"t be able to access all information. Influence: gs 101: interdisciplinary perspective and dimensions. Are we leaving behind the modern era have we moved beyond modernity. What characterizes it, it features interconnections between people, countries, movement of people (in a plane and many countries in one day) on a global era: goods are moving, not only people, ideas, the sharing of ideas. Germs, viruses, diseases, fast: steger says these thigs mark the social condition.
