R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Globalization, Economic Globalization, Mcdonaldization
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The widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life, form the cultural to the criminal, the financial to the spiritual. As technology becomes more advanced it enhances globalization. Agriculture (export sales), chart shows an increasing level of trade. Corporations have as much power as countries do (corporations push for privatization/openness) Forestry, buying wood: it will have a stamp on it, certificiation system for forest management. Exist entirely outside of government frameworks, they exist in the markets. Globalization = been with us a long time, continues to change itself. Migrant farm workers in usa (a lot of them illegal workers) Processes of globalization are either a good or bad thing . There is no alternative (tina) to free markets, western-style capitalism creates wealth. Globalization = more beneficial in the long run to most people.
