Food Inc – A Summary
This is a Superb documentary which demonstrates the downsides of the industrialisation of the food system in the USA. It […]
Global Development, Globalisation, Industrialisation and urbanisation, Transnational corporations
Globalisation
Globalisation, Social Theories
Runaway World by Anthony Gidden: A Summary
In Runaway world Giddens examines how the rise of a ‘risk consciousness’ and detraditionalisation’ have affected social life. He argues
education, Global Development, Globalisation
Education as a Strategy for International Development
What is the state of global education? What are the barriers to providing universal education for all, and how important
Book summaries, Consumerism, Culture and Identity, Globalisation, Marxism, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim, Social Theories
Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Times – A Summary
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world’s leading sociologists. He is particularly interested in how the west’s increasing obsession with
Book summaries, Global Development, Globalisation
Why Nations Fail: A Summary
Failed nation states have a history of ‘extractive institutions’, successful ones have developed more inclusive institutions.
Book summaries, Culture and Identity, Globalisation, Social Theories
Giddens: Modernity and Self-Identity – Introduction and Chapter One (A Summary)
Anthony Giddens is one of the world’s leading sociologists and one of the main critics of Postmodern thought – and
education, Education Policy, Globalisation
Globalisation and Education
This post explores five ways in which globalisation has changed education in the U.K. including increased competition for jobs from people abroad, the increasing influence of global ICT companies, and increasing multiculturalism in education.
Global Development, Globalisation, Theories of development
The Bottom Billion – Paul Collier – A Summary
Global poverty has been falling for decades, but a few countries which are caught in four distinct traps (such as
Globalisation
The Traditionalist View of Globalisation
The traditionalist view of globalisation is that the extent of globalisation has been exaggerated and it is not an inevitable
Global Development, Globalisation
The Transformationalist View of Globalisation
Transformationalists argue that globalisation is complex two way process and that it can be reversed.