[POL1102] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (40 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Ivaylo Grouev

Document Summary

Dozens of countries must compete for shrinking export markers and can export only a limited range of products because of northern protectionism and their lack of cash to invest in diversi cation. Market saturation ensues, reducing exporters" income to a bare minimum while the north enjoys huge savings. Sociologist who studies american patterns of consumption, how globalization is affecting how we behave, metatheory, and modern and post modern social theory. The mcdonaldization of society has taken max weber"s central theme of modern society, rationalization, and turned it into a concept of modernization of society for the 20th century. Rationalization de ned as a far-reaching process where traditional modes of thinking where being replaced by a means of analysis concerned with ef ciency and formalized social control. The process where the principles of the fast food are dominating more and more sectors of the american society as well as the rest of the world.