SOCI 1002 Study Guide - Social Inequality, Nationstates, Consumerism

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14 Jul 2014
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The process by which formerly separate economies, states, and cultures are tied together and people become aware of their growing interdependence. > example: international trade and investment: consequences: destroy political, economic and cultural isolation by bringing people together in global village. Enormous power to share public opinion and behavior. Shapes people"s perception and awareness of social issues. Promote narrow definition of who people are and what they can be: consumerism: tendency to define ourselves in term of goods we purchase. Consumers motivated to make purchases because of bombardment of advertising in form of north. America shop till you drop lifestyle -> can also choose to buy items that help define us as members of particular subculture. Adherents of a set of distinctive values, norms, practices within larger culture: two faces of culture: culture as constraining influence which limits certain amount of our choices. Disagreement especially eveident in debates over curricula in canadian educational system.