SOCY 225- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 225
• Professor: Sachil Singh

Document Summary

Imbalance between group of haves and have nots: what is the nature of the balance between the two, globalization is about people pursuing particular interests for their own sake. Cultural hybridization: melting pot drawing on various social aspects, bringing them together and seeing what happens. Networks and flows that link: local-global/global-local, north, south, east, west. Integration of various social phenomena from various parts of the world. Do social facts precede processes of globalization or vice versa: sometimes they influence how globalization takes place, other times globalization affects the shaping of social facts. What is a sociology of globalization: social processes, institutions, classes, and structures that inform particular terms of globalization; trying to understand the influences of social phenomena. Globalization: (cid:862)the e(cid:454)pa(cid:374)sio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)te(cid:374)sifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) of so(cid:272)ial relatio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess a(cid:272)ross (cid:449)orld ti(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d (cid:449)orld spa(cid:272)e(cid:863: sociology of globalization is about understanding the expansion (globalization) of existing social relations (sociology)