Globalisation

Question 1

What did Go (2013) argue?

Answer 1

• Post-colonial theory
• Modernity constituted through colonialism
• Provincialising and decentring Europe (abandon Eurocentric universalism)

Question 2

What did Said (1978) argue?

Answer 2

Orientalism

Question 3

What does globalisation do to the nation state?

Answer 3

• Reduction of the power of the nation-state due to spread of multi-national corporations
• growth in protectionism, (welfare state) and national competitiveness

Question 4

What did Meyer (1997) say?

Answer 4

-There is a World culture of rationalised modernity

Question 5

What did Kobrin (1997) say?

Answer 5

Global economy doesn’t include entire world

Question 6

What did Castells (1996) argue?

Answer 6

• Globalisation is not restricted to economic aspects of nations
• Globalisation is social and cultural ones

Question 7

Beck (2007)’s argument?

Answer 7

• Methodological nationalism

- Global risk society

Question 8

What did Connell (2007) say?

Answer 8

-Geo-political location of production affects sociological knowledge of globalisation

Question 9

What is the main theory of comp soc for globalisation?

Answer 9

Northern theory

Question 10

What does northern theory believe?

Answer 10

Sociology is ethnocentric

Question 11

Who said “globalization is a fragmented, incomplete, discontinuous, contingent”?

Answer 11

Guillen (2003)

Question 12

What is Urry’s (2004) mobility paradigm?

Answer 12

Strong spatially separated networks are created, but at the same time actors face increasing stratification and anomie

Question 13

Which elements of society does globalisation alter?

Answer 13

1) Political
2) technological
3) cultural
4) economic