Topic 11. Globalization

This week’s agenda

Required Reading

Textbook

• Openstax. Global stratification and classification. In Introduction to Sociology 2e. OpenStax CNX. Dec 18, 2019 https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-sociology-2e.
• Openstax. Global wealth and poverty. In Introduction to Sociology 2e. OpenStax CNX. Dec 18, 2019 https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-sociology-2e.
• Section 9.3. Explaining global stratification. In: Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Open Textbooks. https://doi.org/10.24926/8668.2401.

Supplementary reading

• Textbook-like reading: The McDonalization of Society
• An Introduction to McDonaldization by George Ritzer
• Saskia Sassen’s “The Global City: Introducing a Concept” Brown Journal of World Affairs 11(2): 27-43.
• Jesus Leal Trujillo and Joseph Parilla’s “Redefining Global Cities” Brookings Institute

Study Guide

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Economic Globalization

• Reading
  • Definitions of globalization in Britannica

Cultural globalization

• Reading
  • “Cultural globalization” in Britannica

COVID-19 and Globalization

• Videos
  • Corona’s consequences – how the pandemic is changing globalization | DW Documentary
    Consequences

• • Will the coronavirus crisis reshape globalisation and the economic system?

• • Coronavirus: impact on Global Economy – BBC News

Behind Globalization

Globalization & Border Crisis

• The Crossroads: Inside US – Mexico Trade

• Between Borders: American Migrant Crisis by The New York Times

Fashion Industry & Globalization

• Reading
  • “The Impact of Globalization on Fashion” in Style Vanity
  • “The environment and economy are paying the price for fast fashion — but there’s hope” in Vox, Sep 12, 2019

• Videos
  • “The true cost of fast fashion” in The Economist

• • Fast Fashion: Sweatshops

• Rana Plaza Collapse Documentary: The Deadly Cost of Fashion in The New York Times

• How fast fashion choices in the the UK are causing an environmental catastrophe in Ghana | ITV News

• How fast fashion adds to the world’s clothing waste problem (Marketplace)

• Why donating your clothes isn’t as helpful as you think

The anti-globalization movement

The 1999 Seattle WTO protests

• Reading
  • Antiglobalization in Britannica

• Videos
  • WTO Seattle Riots

Note: Click “Watch on YouTube.”

Occupy Wall Street

• 99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement

• Occupy Wall Street: the story behind seven months of protest

Occupy Wall Street Vs. The iPhone Line