SOC 233 Lecture Notes - Glocalization, Visible Minority, Nationstates
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The ways we have fluid, global flows of things: ethnoscapes: refers to people. Migrants or immigrants: technoscapes: technology flowing across national boundaries. Information technology flows globally: financescapes: money that flows between nations; across national borders. Eg) company in one country that pays workers in another country: mediascapes: media can be seen as extending beyond the borders of one nation-state. Transmission to people around the world instantly through the use of media. Globalizes world: ideoscapes: refers to ideologies. Political images, political discourse that are generated by nation-states, but perpetuated on a global level. Awareness of what is happening on the ideological level of nation-states as a result of globalization. Transnationalism: multiple ties, relationships and interactions liking people or institutions across nation-states. The flows linking people or institutions on a global scale. Transnational practices: activities that simultaneously transcend and link people or institutions across more than one nation-state. Note can occur at a micro-, meso- or macro- level.
