SOCI 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Monocropping, Corporatism, Consumerism

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Reading: the uses of global poverty: how economic inequality benefits the west (daina stukuls eglitis) Reading: the record of microfinance: the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of microfinance. Programs as a means of alleviating poverty (jon westover) Globalisation: process of increasing interconnectedness of people, products, ideas, and places. Increase flow of movement (of goods, people, money) across national borders are facilitated by shared global infrastructure. Normative similarities (e. g; trade tariff agreements, friendly relations) develop from global infrastructure. Places that felt very far away feel much closer via recent developments (e. g; planes, skype etc) Distant events are able to impact us (directly - e. g; arab spring or indirectly - e. g; seeing photos of tsunamis) Marshall mcluhan"s concept of the global village . Better international communication resulted in the formation of an increasingly interconnected and unified global community. Able to interact and learn about distant places and people. This increase of shared interaction creates a greater global responsibility for social betterment via increased awareness (e. g;