SOSC 2351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Cost, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Inequality
16 Jan 2018
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Marketing and sale of goods/services around the world. Gives multinationals access to broader customer (and worker) base. Driven by economics (desire to expand markets) and facilitated by technology (telecommunications and cheaper travel etc) Might adapt to local taste (ex: glocalisation) or have little concession to ensure standard taste/quality etc. Technological innovation and organizational change entered on flexibilization and adaptability; the expansion of a specific form of social organization based on information as the main source of productivity and power. The reduction of the welfare state, privatization, of social services, flexibilization of labour relations and weaker trade unions; Emphasis on efficiencies (ex streamlining government services, downloading government responsibilities such as senior care, mental health supports) Persuade citizens that it is unreasonable to support public sector service through taxation, abandon support for public sector. Privatization, offload responsibilities to private corporations/experts (and citizen groups, voluntary organizations and ngos) States less able/willing to carry out traditional societal tasks.
