Chapter 20- Globalization Flashcards
Alteration in basic structures of a social group or society
Sources: physical environment, political organization, culture, economic factors
Social change
The fact that cultures are neither wholly isolated nor entirely distinct, but instead constantly borrow from one another
Hybridity
Increasing economic connections between countries
Intensification of worldwide political, economic, and sociocultural relations
Increasing flow of money, goods, services, ideas, and people across the national borders
Globalization
Conditions: openness
Process: flows of capital, goods, information, ideas
Outcomes: convergence, social organization, popular culture, norms
3 major components of Globalization
Skeptics: nothing in globalization is very much new today
Hyperglobalizers: globalization will see the demise of the nation state
Transformationalists: globalization has no central power; rather it is multidirectional and decentralized
Three camps of globalization
Information flows: Internet and satellites cause spread of info; FACILITATED COMPRESSION OF TIME AND SPACE
Political changes: growing importance of international government organizations(IGOs) and international nongovernmental organizations(INGOs)
Transnational corporations: business corporations located in two or more countries
Factors contributing to globalization
Rise of individualism: identities guided less by traditional values
Work patterns: flexible working arrangements
Popular culture: images, ideas, goods, styles are now spread worldwide more rapidly than ever
Effect of globalization on our lives
Dangers that spring from the natural world and unrelated to the actions of humans
External risk
Dangers created by the impact of human knowledge and technology on the natural world
Environmental risks
Health risks
Manufactured risks
Global citizens must now navigate an unsafe path through a world with risky choices and decisions
The global “risk society”
A notion advanced by those who believe that processes of social change are taking us beyond the industrialized order
Postindustrial society
A society no longer based on the production of material goods, but rather based on production of knowledge
Postindustrial society
INFORMATION SOCIETY/ KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
A society that has an organized system of labor and materials needed to aid the public
Postindustrial society
SERVICE SOCIETY
The quality of a technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images
Postmodern society
Service occupations date back to the beginning of industrialism
Service sector is very diverse
Service jobs are linked to the manufacture of material goods
Economic forces are emphasized
“Post” implies that society is at some end point rather than on a continuum
General critiques about postmodern society
