SOC 101 Lecture 24: 4/19/2018 - Globalization
April 19th, 2018
Globalization
• Globalization: the worldwide diffusion of practices, expansion of relations across continents, organization of
social life on a global scale, and growth of a shared global consciousness
o Practices
o Relations
o Organization of social life
o Global consciousness
• Something
o A social form that is generally indigenously conceived, controlled, and comparatively rich in
distinctive substantive content
▪ Home cooked mean
▪ Local, small batch beer
▪ Non-food examples?
• Nothing
o Social form that is generally centrally conceived, controlled and comparatively devoid of distinctive
substantive content
▪ McDonalds
▪ Coca-Cola
▪ Non-food examples?
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