SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Individualism, Social Democracy, Economic Globalization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Sceptical thesis: what is the global in globalization, lacks specificity, too broad cannot be operationalized can be misleading, suggest that globalization is primarily a phenomenon which confined to select states. (north. America; us, canada, eu, australia: not a global economy but rather several major economic/political blocs. (nafta, g20, eu) trading groups. "turbo capitalism" the end of the nation state/ welfare state is overstated: we are not seeing a new world but a return to pre. \old geo-politics where the most powerful states/social forces have consolidated their global dominance: the sceptical thesis change, the hyperglobalist with ignoring continued primacy/strength of nation-state. Transformational thesis: globalization also involves the spatial re-organization and re-articulation of economic, political, military and cultural power. Held et al (1999: the central question should be about power, globalization can be understood as a transformational process of human social organization which attends power relations globally.