GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Profit Motive, Glocalization, Exact Sciences
Document Summary
Is there anything new under the sun? local. One"s view of the current state of the world is informed by one"s perspective on things, much like the story of the blind men trying to describe the elephant. We are trying to decipher the signs of the time: this isn"t an exact science. Global studies: an inter-disciplinary understanding of different dimensions of our present condition. Globality: a social condition characterized by tight global economic, political, cultural, and environmental interconnections and flows that make most of the currently existing borders irrelevant (steger, 9) Rebirth of europe, and the elevation of the place of the human (i. e. humanism) Democratic and socialist revolutionary crises: 18th-20th c. ce. The logic of modernity on a global scale. A set of external, material social processes that appear to be changing our modern world into a new social condition. A new internal, subjective consciousness about the human race as one people and the world as our home.
