SOC FINAL (chapter 12 + conclusion)

globalization

the social processes that are expanding and intensifying connections across nation-states

cultural hybridization

the production of ideas, objects, practices, and bodies influenced by two or more cultures

transnational organizations

organizations that operate in more than one country (ex. United Nations, European Union)

transnational governmental organizations

ex. Red cross, Amnesty International, International council of nurses

transnational economic organizations

ex. World bank, World trade organization

neocolonialism

a state of affairs in which some countries use economics, politics, and culture to influence control others

global commodity chains

a transnational economic process that involves extracting natural resources, transforming them into goods, and marketing and distributing them to consumers

global cities

urban areas that act as key hubs in the world economy

global slave trade

the practice of kidnapping human beings, transporting them around the world, and selling them for profit

nation-state system

a world society consisting of only sovereign, self-contained territories

world-system

a global market organized by a capitalist economy

global power elite

a relatively small group of interconnected people who occupy top positions in globally important social institutions

peripheral countries

the world’s working poor (ex. global south)

semi-peripheral countries

Middle-income countries (ex. russia, south korea, south africa)

global imagined community

a socially constructed in-group based on a shared planet (we’re first and foremost earthlings)

transnational social movement

one that coordinates activism across more than one country

glocal

connecting global concerns with local ones

multisite protest

This is a coordinated action, perhaps a march or a sit in, held in many countries at the same time

emancipatory catastrophic

the likely impact of a looming disaster is so unfathomably awful that it dislodges previously intractable identities, beliefs, practices

radical flank

a subset of activists within a movement who adopt a more expansive agenda and engage in more confrontational tactics.

moral entrepreneurship

attempting to reshape our understanding of right and wrong

disinvestment

(Rockefeller family) They’ve announced that they’ll no longer invest their $4.2 billion charitable fund in fossil fuel companies.

sociological imagination

the capacity to consider how people’s lives—including our own—are shaped by the social facts that surround us.