Sociology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sewage Treatment, Mercury Poisoning
29 Mar 2017
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Globalization: a process of increasing interconnectedness of people, products, ideas, and places. o. Increases interconnectedness in three ways : material or physical connections increase. Euro being used all over europe as opposed to knowing the different conversion for each european country. Entails a spatio-temporal element; places that once felt very far away. Stricter airport security due to distant wars and conflicts. Has a cognitive effect of the dissemination of cultural ideals is the spread. Introduction of western television, increasing anorexia rates in. Denmark, iceland, switzerland, finland, netherlands -> happiest countries: all are welfare states. Textbook reading p. 107 -> important points: o. Long history of having drugs tested on poor people: poverty and brain drain = immigration of high-skilled labour for us, poverty = work for rich specialists, experts, and celebrities. Workshops make free choices to work there: alternatives are worse (poverty , prostitution, etc. )
