ANTB20H3 Final: EVERYTHING FOR B20.doc
Document Summary
Globalization as a concept refers both the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness about the world as a whole". People are constantly moving around, barriers between groups are breaking down migration/transnational capital) Space-time compression and stretching of social life across time and space possible action at a distance. Labour markets become more flexible through outsourcing, subcontracting, putting-out and home-work strategies": anthony giddens compares globalization to the stretching of social life across time and. This flexibility is aimed at reducing the turnover time of capital space. Remote encounters win out over face to face interaction. Ways of being social are no longer the same. Before in order to make transactions, build relationships you need face-to-face interactions, but what"s happening now is that these things don"t matter as much: can be in two different time zones to do business.
