SOCIOL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Globalization, Social Capital, International Inequality
23 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
There is no singular definition, but we can think of it along different dimensions. Globalization is the set of processes by which more people become connected in more and diff ways across ever greater distances . The compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole . Deterritorialization: the process thru which the constraints of physical space lose their hold on social relations . Political globalization: eu, supranational government, nation states and countries, interconnected. Human rights watch, groups with a common goal, international non-profit organizations. Emergence of transnational communities and hybrid identities. One of the poorest countries in the world. Ethiopia has never been colonized (one of about 10 in the world, and one of two in. Think about how this theory thinks of other Society has a delicate balance of parts (think organic or the body) Each part of society has its own functions (manifest and latent)
