Globalisation Booklet

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 probably just what you’ve been searching for (although it has, of course, been here all along, just in a not-very-handy, difficult to reproduce, blog format).

Globalisation: Part 4 – Changing Cultural interrelationships

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, inform cultural connections and relationships. This is particularly pertinent when we talk about culture industries like television, film and print, where reference is often made to the cultural hegemony (or […]

Globalisation: Part 3 – Changing Political interrelationships

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 example) involves some measure of political interrelationship. In the case of Europe, economic interrelationships have developed alongside a range of political interrelationships – the European Union has an elected parliament, […]

Globalisation: Part 2 – Changing Economic Interrelationships

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 the production, distribution and exchange of goods and services focused around manufacturing, financial instruments and, increasingly, knowledge industries. In the context of globalisation, a key idea here is the concept […]

Globalisation: Part 1 – Definition

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 reflects and contributes to change – the idea that how nations relate to each other is different now compared to even the very recent past. In this respect, therefore, we […]

SCTV Weekly Round-Up

A little late, but worth the wait. Probably. Our weekly round-up of the sites and stories that are hot. Or not.

Cute Concepts for A-level Sociology: Relative Differentiation

“Evaluation” is a key skill in A-level Sociology that scores lots of exam marks and while there are many different ways to evaluate ideas and arguments there are some useful generic concepts students should be encouraged to regularly (and repetitively) deploy in their evaluation armament from the start of their course – one such being […]