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What difference does globalisation make to sociology?
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What difference does globalisation make to sociology? Sociology is the study of society and its make up. Sociology explores the generic constitution of society and how factors such as beliefs, lifestyle, education, religion can shape it. By dictionary definition, globalisation is the 'growth to a global or worldwide scale; "the globalisation of the communication industry". The question here is whether there is a connection between the two definitions and if so how. One could go a step further and suggest whether society affects how the world is globalised? These are a few issues that need to be addressed. It is claimed that globalisation can be categorised with three different focuses, though they are intimately entwined with each other, all of which I intend to examine and discuss (i)Culture, (ii) States and boundaries and (iii)Economic relations and economics activities. Marshall McLuhan [1964] argued more than a quarter of a century ago an emergence which...
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