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SOSC 188
Lecture 19
Social Responses to Globalization
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The transformation of ideology and social
movement
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Three challenges to Globalization
Fundamentalism
Environmentalism
Localization
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The Transformation of
ideology and movement
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Marxism & labor movements in the 19th century
Nationalism & communism in the 20th century
The decline of Marxism, Labor and communism
since the 1980s: Globalization can’t be resisted,
TINA (there is no alternatives)
Since the late 1990s, new ideology and new antiglobalization movements
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(1) Fundamentalism in the
third world
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Terrorist attack, suicide bombing what are they against?
President Bush and the US,
but also a backlash against globalization
Globalization (marketization, market norms
become supreme)
the bankruptcy of Western morality
the West is full of inequality, greed, cheating, drug, family
breakdown, divorce, cohabitation, life is meaningless
except money pursuits
Return to original code of the religious text (purity)
Religious teaching in school
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(2) Environmentalism
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Globalization goes after global resources, global
labor, global market
leading to unbridled resource exploitation (destroying
rain forest), wasteful consumption, pollution of air/river
and upsetting the ecological imbalance
Propose renewable resource use (recycling), return to
natural lifestyle (bicycle, not cars)
protect the natural environment (Harbor), preserve
biodiversity and indigenous community
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Sustainable development meeting the needs of the present without
compromising the needs of future generation
Need to bring the state back in
Need a global green movements –
Pollution knows no state/national boundary
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(3) Localization
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Globalization privileged foreign corporation
and external funding (e.g. Disneyland),
economy over the society/community
Need to bring the community back, stress grass-roots
participation
Local controls, community empowerment (e.g. Wanchi
redevelopment), preserve local heritage, local culture
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New organizations and new social movementsThe rise of NGOs ( non-government organizations)
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