part 2 Flashcards
Globalization
is a process where people become increasingly aware
Trade routes
Commonly from china to ancient rome
Name after the material
Valuable community
Disease happened on the rout
Transmission of culture
Music, dance
The spread of Virus and Globalization
International investment promotes economic development in other countries, which introduces new forms of animal –> human contact, and new international relationships with people all over the world.
This means when viruses emerge, it is only a matter of days before they are spread globally.
Globalization and inequality
Globalization is about the rapid movement of capital, commodities, culture, and people across international borders, which comes with tremendous advantages for a lot of the world’s population.
However, anti-globalization activists are quick to point out that the tremendous inequity that exists between rich and poor nations is only increasing.
Globalized industries and technology are making the world a more unequal place. Some argue that globalization is a form of IMPERIALISM: the economic domination of one country by another.
The Global Commodity Chain:
a worldwide network of labour and production processes whose end result is a finished commodity.
As consumers, we don’t create the social relations
that exploit people so horrendously,
but we cannot
deny our role in the commodity chain.
Source of Globalization
Technology
Politics
Economics
These 3 primary sources work together - they are not separate entities - they work hand in hand in globalize the worlds
Capitalist competition
A Homogenized World
Globalization is making the whole world look like the United States.
Globalization is making the whole world look like the United States.
HOW?
Advanced industrial countries & organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) impose their (American) guidelines on developing countries.
2. Spreading Western ideals globally.
Spreads one way of doing things
Domectricy, human rights are western ideals
3. The cultural spread of American icons, products, and programming
McDonaldization: George Ritzer
is a term coined by Ritzer to describe the homogenizing effects of globalization.
This is an expansion of Max Weber’s concept of RATIONALIZATION – the most efficient means to achieve an end.
McDonaldization has come to stand for the global spread of values associated with the US and its business culture.
Symbolic Interactionism
Challenges the idea of total Homogenization and McDonaldization.
Symbolic Interactionists use the term GLOCALIZATION,
rather the Globalization. It refers to the simultaneous homogenization of some aspects of life and the strengthening of some local differences under the impact of globalization.
The Secularization Thesis & The
Education System
The education system and institutions of higher learning in this
culture used to be run by religious authorities. Today, they are run
almost entirely by non-religious institutions.
* While this fact seems to support the secularization thesis, upon closer
inspection, the divide between religion and education is not so clear
cut.
NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION
promotes private control of industry with minimal governmental interference in the running of the economy.
DEPENDENCY THEORY: A Conflict Theory Approach
This was a reaction to Modernization theory.
Conflict theorists see economic under development as the result of exploitive relations between rich and poor countries.
Colonizers prevented these nations from industrializing and therefore locking them into poverty.
Colonizers prevented these nations from industrializing and therefore locking them into poverty.
Eventually this form of domination was replaced with ….
- Substantial Foreign Investment
- Support for Authoritarian Governments
- Lending Money & Creating Crippling Debt
Examples of Anti - Globalization Movements
- The Democratic & Socialist Anti-Globalization Movement
(The Battle in Seattle – 1999) - The events of Sept. 11th 2001
- The Occupy Wall St. Movement – 2010-11
- The European & American Populist Movement – 2016 - Now
Role performance comes with both
CONSTRAINT and FREEDOM.
Role playing as
Role making as
Role playing (as constraint)
Role making (as freedom)
Social Interaction….
.is the process by which role performers act in relation to each other.
Social Interaction. .is about
COMMUNICATION ~ the sending and receiving of messages.
Messages
can be INSTRUMENTAL or EXPRESSIVE.
Feminist Theory and Emotion Labour
Emotion Management
Emotion Management
: following culturally transmitted ‘scripts’
that consist of information that individuals have learned about
how to respond to a particular situation.
Emotion Labour: is the emotion management that people do as part of their job and for which they are paid.
Conflict Theories of Social Interaction
According to Conflict Theory, competition for attention, approval,
prestige, information, money, and other resources are what
guide social interaction.
POWER
is the capacity to carry out one’s will despite resistance. People, when they interact, find that their statuses are arranged in a hierarchy.
Conflict Theory suggests that there are
3 Main Modes of Interaction
Domination
Cooperation
Competition
Symbolic Interaction and Social
Interaction
People interact with others based on learned norms, and by
Erving Goffman & the Dramaturgical
Model
He saw interaction like a play and borrowed much of his terminology from the theater.
Ie: Front stage and Backstage behavior
Like all symbolic interactionists, Goffman believed that the stability of social life depends on our adherence to norms, roles,and statuses.
Ethnomethodology
(an offshoot of Symbolic Interactionism)
Ethnomethodologists focus
on our understanding of the norms that PRECEED interaction.
Ethnomethodologists study how people make sense of what others do and say by adhering to pre-existing norms.
Life wouldn’t be possible without shared norms
Only way to establish norms if they disruptive
Howard Garfinkle
Breaching Experiments
STATUS CUES
visual indicators of a person’s social position.
STATUS CUES - On a non-verbal level,
they can help us define the situation and facilitate
social interaction. We interpret these things and apply their meaning to those
we interact with.
STATUS CUES They can also pose a social danger as they can quickly degenerate into
STEREOTYPES
STEREOTYPES
the rigid views of how members of various groups act,
regardless of whether individual group members really behave that way.
Example: black man who drive expensive cars get pulled over the most
Theoretical Summary of Social
refers to a compilation of ideas, frameworks, and concepts that help explain the structures, dynamics, and patterns of human societies and interactions. Social theory encompasses various perspectives that seek to understand how individuals and groups interact, how societies function, and the roles of institutions, culture, and power. Here are key theoretical concepts and approaches in social theory
Conflict
The competitive exchange of valued
resources structures social interaction
Feminist
Status differences between men and women structure social interaction
Symbolic Interactionist
Social interaction involves the interpretation, negotiation, and modification of norms, roles,& statuses
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Why do you think sociologists study the human body?
Sociologists study human bodies to analyze them as social products entities that bear the imprint of society
Jewelry
Hair color
gym
The Body Project
Is an enterprise that involves people shaping their body to express their identity and meet cultural or subcultural expectations of beauty and health
People have always attempted to affect their body shape and appearance they usually do according to principles and standard laid by society
Gender, age (we get the norms how we should look)
There are 4 different types of activities that can characterize a body project
Camouflaging
Extending - extension of the natural body(eye glasses, hearing aids, wheelchair)
Adapting - eliminating and reducing physical parts of our body eliminate unfavorable responses from people (weight loss, mole removed, hair removal)
Redesigning - permanent reconstruction for self expression, self acceptance, to be more aesthetically pleasing (botox, fillers, plastic surgery)
Camouflaging
temporary or non invasive to hide or mask the body that seems undesirable ( body odor, face wash, dying hair)
Extending
-extension of the natural body(eye glasses, hearing aids, wheelchair
Adapting
eliminating and reducing physical parts of our body eliminate unfavorable responses from people (weight loss, mole removed, hair removal)