SOC 520

Globalization

This course offers an introduction to the major topics in globalization. The following issues are explored: the process globalization (the role of technological innovation, the change of business models, political changes worldwide); the history of globalization (the role of the nation-state, the rise and fall of the merchant, industrialist, and financier); theoretical thinking of globalization (neo-liberalism, westernization, and globalism); and the impact of globalization on global inequality, health, and environment.

Units: 3.0