SOCI 1002 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Structural Functionalism, Neoliberalism
12 Oct 2018
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SOCI 1002
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
SOCI 1002
Defining Globalization
✓ The worldwide exchange of money, goods and services as well as the socio-cultural
changes that occur as a result
o Cultural globalization, economic globalization
✓ Globalization refers to the expansion and intensification of social relations and
consciousness across world-time and world space
Volunteers Unleashed
Voluntourism accused catering to young unskilled visitors
Out of their skill levels – who are they hurting
Volunteering used to require weeks of training and over a year of placement
Now many are short time – on average 2 weeks and little to no training
Picked through a government agency not an NGO
Community development work – wildlife conservation
Volunteers taken advantage of – work isn’t useful
Tanzania – Ecuador
440$ given to organization
breaking bonds with volunteers can traumatize the orphans
50% being trafficked, prostituted, on the streets, substance abuse (orphan kids)
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Lecture 2
Globalization
January 15th, 2018
Defining globalization
the orldide ehage of oe, goods ad series as ell as the soio-cultural
hages that our as a result
gloalizatio refers to the epasio ad itesifiatio of soial relations and
consciousness across world-time and world-spae
A short:
✓ early international trade and exploration and colonialism (16th century)
✓ three early 20th century revolutions
✓ past WW2: Breton woods, 1944
✓ 9’s oil rises ad the irth of eolieralism
Early international trade and colonization 5’s-95’s
✓ beginning of colonization in the 16th century – exploration of natural/human resources
✓ in the 19th century 50% of all exports from the USA were cotton
o much of its growth came from the cotton industry
✓ gloalizatio did’t egi ears ago; it ega ear ago
o trans-Atlantic slave
✓ what else do we get? Vanilla
o exploration/colonization in south America brings this to European powers
✓ capitalism is growing
✓ allowed for western powers to develop capitalist tendencies
✓ unfree labour is always conveniently ignored
✓ global capitalism developing – western European countries are growing as well as north
American countries
✓ challenge the expansion of global capitalism
o 1. Russian revolution
▪ killing of Czar family
▪ creation of USSR in 1922
▪ creation of large chunk of the world rejecting capitalism
▪ ends 1989 with fall of Berlin wall
o 2. Independence movements in global south
▪ 9’s-1979
▪ ways in which people in colonized states in Africa, Asia, India organized to
overthrow colonial powers
▪ challenge imperialism
▪ creation of free nation-states – not tied to colonial powers
o 3. Emergence of Fordism
▪ henry ford – actively produced his product in the united states
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Document Summary
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