Effects of globalization on social change
- Introduction
- Globalization has created immense effects on various aspects of social change.
- For instance, dressing, eating, and religion have greatly been affected by globalization that has been enabled by technology.
- Analyze how social practices have changed due to global connectedness
- Global connectedness has affected social practices in varied ways.
- One of the social practices involves lifestyles that seems copied from other nations, particularly developed ones where civilization is high.
- Young people from developing nations are copying dressing codes abandoning their culture.
- Using the four lenses, explain how a topic that has been discussed in this course has or has not been influenced by global connectedness.
- The four lenses of viewing globalization include natural science, social science, history and humanities.
- From a natural science lens, globalization has created social changes that are considered to be concrete and orderly thus improving world order.
- From a social science lens, personal networks created through globalization has enabled social change to create an element of social reality in the world through affecting factors such as religion, education, and human interactions.
- From a historical lens, global connectedness has enabled people to learn the historical aspects about other communities and groups through watching, listening and reading such historical facts.
- From the lens of humanities, global connectedness has significantly affected the studies by enabling students to understand the social changes through studying various humanities.
- Analyze how global society has influenced social change. In other words, how has a shift to a more global society brought about social change?
- Basically, globalization has brought about multiple social changes in most societies in the world.
- One of the social changes that have structured the world in a unified way is religion.
- Traditionally, every country had varied ways of worshipping that were based on ethnic groups or tribes.
- Analyze how global connectedness has influenced the behaviors and operations of individuals in your discipline of study. In other words, look at the influence of global connectedness through the lens of your discipline
- In my area or discipline of study (I study business), globalization has introduced online shopping.
- Consumers from different parts of the world can acquire goods and services from any foreign country through the internet.
References
Anheier, H. K., & Juergensmeyer, M. (Eds.). (2012). Encyclopedia of global studies. Sage Publications.
Ghemawat, P., & Altman, S. A. (2013). Strategies for global connectedness. (Strategy business.)