SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Target Corporation, Charismatic Authority, Ahistoricism
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Starting points: chapter 15 - politics and social movements. Economic globalization opens doors to mncs which threatens national sovereignty and develops a global culture that weakens distinctiveness of national cultures. Running against the trend to homogeneity across societies is a trend to heterogeneity within societies - result of mass migrations and individualized life styles. Focused on politics as a key process in the way di . kinds of social systems operate. The changes brought by economic development are ltered through a democratic infrastructure concerned with civic culture of private life and through concerns about legitimacy and system performance. If economic changes meet all of these challenges they produce a stable political democracy. Emilie durkheim: breakdown approach: assumes that social order and consensus are the basis of society. Anything that disturbs social order will disturb members of society causing them to seek ways to establish equilibrium.
