SOC 2151 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Globalization, Ford Focus, Economy Of Japan
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SOC 2151
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
January 8th 2018
Introduction
Midterm Exam
- Part 1: multiple choice (5 questions)
- Part 2: True/False statements (5 statements)
- Part 3: Short discoursive questions (4 questions)
- Part 4: Interpretative question (2 questions)
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How would you define globalization?
What do you think is involved? Examples
Term
How do you experience globalization? The way you study, consume, socialise, bank, eat etc.
How do people experience globalization? Is it the same everywhere?
Review of Literature on Globalization
- Deterritorialization
- Compression of the world
- Intensification of consciousness (acknowledging we live in a global world and that we impact
one another)
- Interactions between local and global
- Interconnection
- Interdependence, though this should not mean symmetry
- Intensification of flows (people ad ideas hae alas oed ut e’ve not being moving at the
pace or intensity we are now)
Globalization as process: flows and networks
- the trans-planetary process or set of processes involving increasing liquidity and growing
multidirectional flows of people, objects, places, and information as well as the structures they
eouter ad reate that are arriers to, or epedite, those flos
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January 10th 2018
Lecture 2
Why Study Globalization?
- These flows affect our lives ex. food/sushi is caught in Canada and processed elsewhere in the
world so we dot kow if the fish is atuall the fish red sapper is ot reall red sapper)
- Food companies are not transparent, as its proessed elsewhere so Canadian products use
many ingredients from all over the world
- Global production of commodities ex. holiday napkins, from south America & Europe
Economies of Scale
- Why is it so cheap to buy?
- Production + labour costs included so how is it possible?
The Costs and Consequences
- Reverse Pyramid Profit Stratification (high tech companies $$$ –> supplier factories $ –>factory
workers 0)
- We profit off of someone else losing, as we are interconnected
General Learning Outcomes
- Political and economic dimensions of global processes
- Questions the pursuit of profit (Who is winning?)
- Emphasis on critical analysis
o Power, inequalities, conflict in global relations
Some Objective Bases
1. Economic Basis
a. Capitalism gone global?
b. Changes in production and consumption
c. Flows of money
2. Political Basis
a. Web of connections
b. Changes in governance – multiple layers
3. Cultural Basis
a. Artifacts
b. Lifestyles
c. Cultural trends
d. Cultural movements
Different Dimensions of Globalization ex. culture etc.
Related Processes and Metaphors
Globalization Studies
- Globalization theory seems to have emerged in the 80s
- Changes from 1970s
o New systems of production, finance, consumption
o Transnational institutions, new governance and new actors
o New patterns of movement and connectivity of peoples
o New social hierarchies
Two Disciplinary Approaches
- Sociology
o Wide view of globalization
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Document Summary
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