For someone who explicitly rejects the notion of “postmodernity” as it’s conventionally applied in sociology (and elsewhere come to that. I try not to discriminate)
A while ago I posted a piece on cultural differences illustrated by a range of adverts produced by HSBC around 10 – 15 years ago
Colourful PowerPoint Presentation summarising the OCR Globalisation and the Digital World Unit, plus a range of 6 / 9 mark exam practice questions. It’s somehow
A “6 week course”, built around a variety of PowerPoint Presentations and supporting documents, designed to help you teach the Globalisation and the Digital World
If you prefer your globalization notes in a handy, easily-reproduced, pdf format (and, let’s face it, who doesn’t?) then this handy, easily-reproduced, pdf-format booklet is
As with their political counterpart, we need to keep in mind that cultural interrelationships are frequently related to economic relationships and that these, in turn,
Conventionally, political relationships operate between nation states in three general areas: Trade: The development of transnational trading blocs (in North/South America, Asia and Europe, for
The first dimension of globalisation we can outline and examine is the changing nature of economic relationships, based around the idea of trade; this involves
As Sklair (1999) suggests, globalisation provides a context for understanding the relationship between societies in the contemporary world because it represents a process that both
Applying concepts of McDonaldisation and Disneyfication to contemporary cultural products helps students get to grips with the concept of globalisation (particularly its cultural form, but also