GL Lecture 2

Question 1

Globalization according to lecture thesis

Answer 1

Umbrella term for a variety of phenomena and processes that we experience as rapid, comprehensive social change

Question 2

Eriksen metaphor

Answer 2

«overheating»
accelerated change :
- causes different aspects of our social life to rob against one another = friction generates heat.
- so many aspects of our lives getting faster, and as they come into contact = generates more heat

Question 3

examples of crisis

Answer 3

political, climate, refugees

combination of scale of the pb

Question 4

key issue of globalization

Answer 4

ability of the world to change drastically

Question 5

social change for harper and leicht

Answer 5

significant alteration (adaptation, change) of social structure and cultural patterns through time. think of how the pop of a country changed in 50y

Question 6

situation in sg today and in 1819

Answer 6

today : more than half of the people = migrants

1819 : influx of british indian and chinese migration

Question 7

social structure according to harper and leicht

Answer 7

a persistent network of social relationships where interaction between persons / groups has become routine and repetitive (social roles, groups, organizations, institutions, taken for granted)

Question 8

family types

Answer 8

nuclear : mom dad children

extended : grands parents, uncles

Question 9

culture

Answer 9

shared way of living and thinking that includes symbols and language (verbal and non verbal), knowledge, beliefs, values (what is good or bad), norms (how people are expected to behave) and techniques ranging from common folk recipes to sophisticated technologies and material objects

Question 10

culture simple

Answer 10

rules by which people govern themselves

Question 11

social structure simple

Answer 11

the way people organize themselves to play within the rules

Question 12

«methodological nationalism»

Answer 12

a norm in scholarly research : tendency to look at everything in schools / research through the lense of the nation ; the nation-state as the sole unit of analysis or as a container for social processes = not the case

Question 13

nation state

Answer 13

one scale amongst others

Question 14

significance types

Answer 14

• statistical significance
• clinical significance
• social significance —> debated, don’t have good measurement, issues with temporality and spatiality

Question 15

types of social changes

Answer 15

1) change in personnel, ex: organisation / institution
2) change in way parts of structures relate. ex : family to institution —> USA evol 40-50y accepting family don’t have to look like 1 mom 1 dad 1 child (can be single-parenting / homosexual ) BO admin coming around trans rights issues
DT admin making impossible trans in army
3) Change in function of structures ( politicization of family, HBD rules in sg on marriage criteria )
4) Change in relationship between different structures. (legal regimes allow / disallow)
5) Emergence of new structures. ex : extended kinship networks to deal with disrupts to necluar fam. adaptation to slavery in usa south

Question 16

scales of social change

Answer 16

Macro : global / world, societies
Meso : societies, institutions, org
Micro : org, small groups, individuals

Question 17

time frames of social change

Answer 17

human time vs geological time
being able to move in another country only with permission, while in geological time humans have always been moving around earth

Question 18

since when social changes began to speed up

Answer 18

last 500y

Question 19

society as «open systems»

Answer 19

cannot be closed off from change, always changing

Question 20

external changes

Answer 20

• globalization : outsourcing, countries opening their borders, low cost workforce but rise of middle class
• technology : boats, firearms

Question 21

internal changes (mostly)

Answer 21

1) gap between ideals and practices : multiracial, equal country but discrimination to a minority group
2) individual differences via socialisation
3) definition and performance of social roles
4) competition for power and resources

Question 22

exemple of non open system

Answer 22

north korea

Question 23

examples of global social change

Answer 23

1) nation state
—> between 1790-1975, most people in the world had their political institutions completely replaced (before 1950’s, lots of colonies)
today nation-state = only form of pol org recognised
2) capitalism
evolution of capitalism 1300s - 1989 out of feudalism. few exceptions (NK Cuba China) colonialism then collapse of cold war syst = 2 moments essential to replacing most people’s economic systems with capitalism
3) english as a global language
colonialism —> british empire —> american hegemony

Question 24

migration to usa

Answer 24

1840 - 1924 huge influx of people coming from all around the world moving to usa
social change counts —> people already there questioning their legitimacy
- americans were protestants, irish catholics
- flood mexican immigrants looking for safety 1903

Question 25

refugee crisis

Answer 25

2005-present,

flood, accepting refugees would cause too many social changes

Question 26

urbanisation and informality

Answer 26

people are moving to cities.
Sao Paulo Brazil Favela (informal) next to formal, legal housing
No urban informality in Europe, japan, north america.
People moving to urban areas = social changes (different values, disconnected from nuclear or extended families, groups created)

Question 27

globalization as social change

Answer 27

doesn’t sufficiently explain what is changing and how but helps understand why important