SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Ethnocentrism, Democratic Globalization, Anthony Giddens
14 Dec 2012
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Globalization has transformed and improved the way we live there is now a rapid movement of capital, commodities, culture and people across national boundaries: despite this, inequality between nations is staggering. Many oppose globalization because it is making the world more unequal and may be hurting local cultures and the environment. Some people say globalization is a form of imperialism (the economic domination of one country by another) because it puts the entire world under the control of powerful commercial interests. Globalization also contributes to the homogenization of the world and cultural domination it is one thing for the world to have closer ties but another for less developed countries to become like the west. Global commodity chain: is a worldwide network of labour and production processes whose end result is a finished commodity: ex. Buyers purchasing these products cause these social relations to persist.
