SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Social Distance, Dialectic, Tabula Rasa

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: silva

Document Summary

Colonialism was a global system of economic and political domination involving. Considerable contact between developed and less developed societies, organized on terms systematically favorable to the developed societies. It produced considerable cultural cross-fertilization (an inherent feature of modernity), the disparagement of particular cultures (with lasting implications for some disadvantaged populations) Peoples" (elites and non-elites) spread across political boundaries. Social distance and geographic distance the same media inundates geographically separated groups. Even though ny is the same distance away from la as it always has been even before la was founded, before it would take years to reach each other, now only takes a 5 hour plane ride. The differences between the social groups is growing. How the rich live, work, dine, what they purchase is different. Endless replications for the winning capitalist formula for success. Homogenization of cultures all over the world. Actually, clearly not entirely: new technologies can be re-purposed for old cultural goals.