GS101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dual Economy, Dreadlocks, Allopatric Speciation
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How is our contemporary world changing as a result of economic, ideological, political, cultural and environmental processes: globalization is really investigating these activities and trying to understand them, connectivity and flows. 4 qualities: connections, expansion and stretching (of social relations, activities and connections) Intensification and acceleration (of social exchanges and activities) Involving human consciousness (how we perceive who is human; ethics and values: creation of new social networks and multiplication of existing connections (farmer sells tomatoes, mnc"s) Local-global nexus- looking at a local example and trying to understand the global dimensions to it. Glocal dynamics - (the specific complex of connections and flows linking the global to the local and vice versa: ex. Social condition characterized by global interconnections and flows of the 5 dimensions to make existing borders irrelevant: the term globality signifies a social condition characterized by tight global economic, political, cultural and environmental interconnections and flows that make most of the currently existing borders irrelevant (steger, 9).
