SOC101 Chapter 20: Chapter 20.docx

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC101
• Professor: Barry Mc Clinchey

Document Summary

Societies and economies are more integrated worldwide, in a manner that affects our daily lives from our biological dimension to the ways we understand reality and try to change it: the work canadians perform is part of a globalized economy impact of changes can be tremendous on our jobs and prosperity, society is changing poor are poorer, rich are richer, future of the environment depends on the artic; food and oil are from other places is the level of degradation sustainable, key decisions affecting our lives are made by anonymous technocrats, cultural integration. Globalization is characterized by four changes: stretching of social, political, and economic activities across frontiers, regions and continents, marked by intensification of interconnectedness and flows of trade, investment, finance, migration, culture, and so on, linked to a speeding up of global interactions and processes, boundaries between domestic matters and global affairs become increasingly fluid.