SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Science, Montesquieu, Tabula Rasa

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1
• Professor: brown

Document Summary

1. 1 review the importance of a global perspective. Globalization: a process involving the production, distribution, and consumption of technological, political, economic, and sociocultural goods and services on a global basis. Marshall mcluhan: used the phrase to describe how media collapse space and time and enable people everywhere to interact and experience life on a global scale (global village). Globalization also implies a realization of the primacy of capitalism as a defining feature of the global economy. Just as we investigated your identity as being defined by your socioeconomic class, gender, etc. , as a sociologist you need to realize that canadians have been taught to assume that capitalism is by default the only economic system possible. Roughly 6 billion people alive today, only 1 billion live in developed countries. The remaining 5 billion live in developing countries, where many survive on less than a dollar a day.