How New Ideas And New Technology Has Brought Smaller Powers

The main sociological issue depicted in the video is globalization. Globalization deals with social changes that affect the world on an international scale. This is regarded as the most important social change of the 21st century because the entire world is connected and can communicate in a matter of seconds. This eases the flow of ideas, people, and material objects and allows a small change somewhere to spread and have far reaching effects. This video examines how globalization has unequal effects on the quality of life for different populations of people all around the world. The living situations for a citizen in Malawi is vastly different from that of a citizen living in Beverly Hills. A specific example of the how globalization was created and how it can having varying effects on populations is how the Europeans conquered America and extracted the resources by force.

In Marcelo’s Gleiser’s “Globalization: Two Visions of the Future of Humanity,” he explores both the positive and negative outcomes possible if the world were to become one globalized society. Gleiser paints a picture of futurist’s supposed utopia that is predicted for the future of the world. This includes major technological advances that would bring every country and society together, therefore sharing the same goods and values and eliminating war. Gleiser questions how accurate this is and contrasts this view with an article from Michael Shermer. This article argues that due to our natural human tendencies to stray away from other walks of life besides our own, a seamless utopia isn’t realistic. Gleiser provides his readers a reminder about how strong fundamentalism has presented itself when situations of integrating cultures come

Finally, globalization has given way to human development through culture integration, information sharing, and competition between countries. As people disperse from their native countries they take with them their culture and ideologies. At the same time technology is rapidly advancing, allowing information to be instantaneously shared across the globe. These events culminate in the diversification of society. As opposed to living with one view of the world people can now choose from any number of beliefs or views and find others that share them.

In regards to Kofi Annan, it is believed that we all need to join together in order to live in a strong environment and we need one another in order to grow stronger as a nation. Kofi Annan once said,” We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.” This statement emphasizes the significance of finding common ground due to the fact that it explains that everyone needs to get past their differences in order to come together and grow to make the environment and nation they live in superior. Two authors in this unit also argue that individuals need to find common ground. In “A Quilt of a Country”, Anna Quindlen claims that conflict unites all people. Likewise, Eboo Patel claims that all people work together to overcome

Individuals of the same ethnic background share the same culture a factor that explains that there, as many cultures as there are ethnic backgrounds across the world. Globalization has, however, led to interaction of people from varied cultural backgrounds. Because of the interaction, globalization has been accused of limiting cultural diversity. It is, however, not the case in reality. The purpose of this paper is to analyze some of the factors that justify that globalization has not limited cultural diversity as its critics say. Thus, globalization should not be viewed as a hindrance to cultural diversity because the best subject of moral concern should be the individual person and not the nation, community or the society.

The consequences of progressing technology are actually great because it is easier to reach people around the world at the speed of lighting and the global market is within the reach of a fingertip. Surely, it could save time and expand productivity in a positive form. Advanced technology causes communication to be easier and less expensive, it can improve the healthcare system and the education. Nonetheless, there could negative aspects on the environment and people. Technology can be addictive and caused people to be lazy and dependent without having the opportunity to train and exercise the brain by relying too much on computer devices. Besides, its debris could be very destructive to the environment.

Technology today is more relied upon than ever before. If one needs to call someone half way around the world, simply take out a cell phone and dial their number. Within thirty seconds, one can be speaking to that person just as if two people were conversing face-to-face. In the same manner, one has access to endless knowledge and resources by the pushing of a few buttons or the click of a mouse. The usage of social media today is becoming more prevalent than ever before because of the convenience it offers. This convenience includes being able to instantly know where a person is, what they are doing, and how they are feeling. All of these instances have one main commonality : technology. The interminable technological advances one has

Pankaj Ghemawat believes we do not live in a globally flat world. In his work Why the World isn’t Flat he speaks of how this greatly wide spread globalization is more of an idea than the truth. Ghemawat claims that while globalization is a hot topic, it is talked about in more ways than it is actually used. According to the US library of Congress’s catalog, the rate of increase in the writings of globalization have been doubling about every 18 months since the 1990’s. While many more people are expressing their ideas of globalization we are not partaking in the actual actions of globalization nearly as much as these writings make it seem. Of course most of the ways we interact, as the writings suggest, are being done “we only interact in a way that is a fraction of what we could do”. A whooping 90 percent of all phone calls, web traffic, and investments are still only local interactions and plenty of the over seas transactions are still done with domestic companies that simply have operations in foreign nations. Since they are domestic all benefits from that operation will eventually, if not instantly, return home. It is said that “investment knows no boundaries” but if these investments are done with locally based companies located in an international location the geographical ground will not reek the benefits. While technological advances have made global interaction come with ease, it is a huge step to believe increased communication will take away the effects that

The global village is vastly evident throughout all of society, moreso than ever before. As a result of the formation of this global village, there has been many consequences for society. With the rising coexistence of local and global communities, local society is adapting to suit the needs of the global village. Hence, there is a battle between the individual and the power of globalisation, as the world is becoming more connected. Rob Sitch’s 1997 film, ‘The Castle’, portrays the effects of the global village through the juxtaposition of the Kerrigan family to the Barlow group, a transnational corporation. The global village concept is also portrayed in CBC TV’s 1960 interview with Marshall McLuhan, ‘The World is a Global Village’.

“COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” is the motto the citizens of the World State adhere to. The motto stresses the need for everyone to work together, and discourages individualism. Their society believes that when an “individual feels, the community reels”, meaning when an individual begins to feel real emotion, society behaves in a disorderly manner. When one longs to achieve happiness and meaningfulness, they may abandon everything they know in the pursuit of discovering their passion. In this pursuit one may encounter a cultural conflict that is hazardous to themselves and society, thus creating disorder in the world in which they call their home.

The end of the Cold War brought about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, paving the way for an unprecedented new paradigm – one characterised by the end of hostilities between the two dominant ideologies: Soviet communism and American liberal capitalism. This dominant new paradigm encouraged the homogenisation of ideas, in the form of exchanging ethos and values along former cultural, ideological and geographical divides. As such, this integration of world societies has earned the title ‘globalisation’, forcing the global community to appear so united as to warrant the metaphor of a global village. (Note: This paragraph pains me to read – I will eventually re-write it.)

Anthony Giddens lecture on globalization informed his audience about the dangers of globalization and the effect it has on the world. Giddens explained an event that happened to a friend that studied village life in Africa. The friend did fieldwork hoping to learn about the traditional pastimes of the community. Instead, the evening turned into a viewing of Basic Instinct, an American movie. This event got Giddens to think that small things such as traditions are being abandoned by the globalization happening around the world.

In the article “A Shared Moment of Trust” by Warren Christopher the author talks about his belief in learning to rely on others. The author believes that advances in technology have made it easier to respond to and prevent disasters from happening. The author states “As technology shrinks our world, the need increases for cooperative action among nations” (Christopher). The ability to see past differences, help other nations, and asking for help first is a necessity in today’s world. In addition, the author talks about his view that just because a nation has different customs and beliefs does not mean they should be perceived as a threat.

Lastly, religions play an important role too by gathering people scattered across the globe under an identical cosmology, thus creating imagined communities (Anderson, 1983). Globalization, by connecting people through the media, also creates such a community: inhabitants of the world share the idea of a global community and an international identity. This is why we could define globalization as the compression of time and space (Harvey, 1983). Communications as well as people can travel at an ever increasing speed, thereby giving the impression that every corner of the world is at hand. The main thesis about globalization argues that it leads to a phenomenon of homogenization. My hypothesis however is that some cultures are so different and so deeply rooted in their environment that they can't simply be erased. They will be modified, influenced but not standardized under one unique model. This will lead to hybrid products, thereby proving the hypothesis of glocalization, introduced by

It is said that technology is turning our world into a global village, and this is true to some extent but even now if we move from one city to another, one can feel the difference in language, culture, life style and many more.