SOC298H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Embeddedness, Strategic Geography, Capital Market
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Sociology of globalization - state confronts the global. State becomes foundational transformations in the relationship b/w private and public domains. How to study the state in a global context. Establish the state"s position to recover the ways in which the state participates in government the global economy. Key organizing proposition - embeddedness of much of globalization in national territory - geographic terrain that"s been encased in national laws and admin capacities: embeddedness - requires lifting is national encasement ->> need state"s participation. > tilly/weber: emphasize a territorial dimension of state power: terrain deep into highly specialized components of the national state. State maintains its level of capacity even as it may lose some of its autonomy. Specifying embeddedness of globalization has two purposes: to provide the empirical specification underlying the assertion that the state is engaged in the implementation of global processes. Private digital networks make possible forms of power other than distributed power we associate with public digital networks.
