SOSC 1000 Lecture : Tutorial Notes.docx
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Identify the major arguments and the supporting points for the cox. Reading crisis in mid 1970"s-breaking point (recession )when the specific forms of economic and social relations were now referred to as global . Distinciton between international economy and the world economy (trades,investments that are regulated by states and intl"organizations) Multinational organizations are the primary agents of economic development. Dominance of economic forces, both necessary and beneficial. Important when thinking of social and political change. Space orients the mind towards present complex of relationships. Ideology of globalization is sustained by space oriented thinking. Social structure of world shaped by globalization, takes the form of 3 part hierarchy. Second level includes those who serve global economy in more precarious employment. Bottom level consists of superfluous labor, global poverty relief. First, tendency towards differentiation of what karl called substantive economies. Third, mutation of human organization, and coexistence of different intersubjectives with the biosphere.