Globalized Labour and Consumption

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

Does the global economy allow for just and fair social relations? Recent sociological theories of social change analyze socio-economic processes, social relations, social structures, and global economic institutions. Topics discussed will include post-industrial, post-fordist, and post-modern society; patterns of restructuring the economy and the state; the global city; global and local cultures; the global consumer; and fragmentation and inequality in global space.