SOCIOL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Revolution, Internal Consistency
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Despite united nations, the world remained bipolar until 1990s. United states (& allies) and soviet union had emerged as winners from world. Cold war confrontation between them divided world into two blocs: the capitalist. Us camp and the communist soviet union camp. Until the fall of the soviet union. 1989/1990 soviet union collapses/end of cold war. United states becomes the world"s single super power. Since then: globalization has preceded at unprecedented pace. ***our class focuses on globalization since the end of world war ii, but with heavy emphasis on this hyper-globalization of the post-cold war era. Dating globalization is up for debate global connections/processes go back millennia. At least two prior waves of globalization: 16th through 18th century, galvanized by european colonial expansion. 19th century, galvanized by industrial revolution in. Second wave of globalization collapsed during world wars and the great. Our class is focused on third wave of globalization era since end of world war.
