SOCI 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Major Force, Stephen D. Krasner, World Trade Organization

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3340
• Professor: M A R C O F O N S E C A

Document Summary

How the growth of supraterritorial space has altered capitalism in general and the role of the state with capitalism in particular. Scholte article view the connection between globalization and the state in terms of subtle interplays of continuity and change. Argument concerning the changing state under circumstances of globalizing capitalism in three sections: 1- how globalization is understood in present context , globalization needs helpful meaning when it comes to supraterritorial or transborder relations. Globalization on modern social life (communication, organization, trade, finance, ecology, consciousness. Causes and consequences of globalization in relation to capitalism. What happened to the state: still survived, end of sovereignty, supraterriotorial constituencies, new patterns of warfare, multilateralism growth, blocks to democracy. Reading 2 the contemporary form of globalization is nothing more than yet another round in the capitalist production and reconstruction of space. How these distinctive geographical processes of the production and reconfiguration of space have created the specific conditions of contemporary globalization.