SOC 2151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Identity Politics, Risk Society, Cyberterrorism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2151
• Professor: Aline A Coutinho

Document Summary

It is a type of grand and totalizing theory: big story and a picture of much of the social world. The us as the center of analysis. Excess focus on the origins of the flows. Binary way of thinking (us vs. the rest of the world/other locations). Defining stages: 1945-1971: capacious americanization (heyday), post-1971: resonant americanization. Defining forms of influence: americanization without america (consumerism without the direct intervention of the us), beyond americanization (ultra-consumption), expressing american (expressing us values of democracy, consumption, food), indigenous americanization (emanates in other countries, e. g. mecca-cola). Treaty of westphalia (1648): the institution of an international system, sovereignty of states: the right to political self-determination, prohibition of intervention. Nation: social group linked through commonality (language, culture, territory). State: organizational structure; bureaucratic apparatus; overcame the feudal system. Feeble state: created destructive political tensions, challenges autonomy of the state: globalization weakens the atate, reduce regulatory power.