SOC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Global Justice Movement, Modernization Theory, Washington Consensus
14 Apr 2016
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Globalizaion a set of uneven social processes that appear to transform our present social condiion of weakening naionality into one of globality. Globality a social condiion characterized by ight global economic, poliical, cultural, and environmental interconnecions and lows that make most of the current borders and boundaries irrelevant. Globalizaion is a process while globality is a condiion as a result of globalizaion. Based on exchange of goods, development of trade routes, migraion of people, spread of info. Based on technological development in the second half of 19th century created foundaion of modern globalizaion. Decolonizaion ater wwii the processes whereby colonial empires are dismantled and former colonies are granted poliical and economic independence. Variety of transnaional poliical and inancial insituions were created to address wwii consequences (ex. Tarifs fees imposed by a government on imported goods. Neoliberalism to avoid something like great depression from happening again, ater.
