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Globalization and Changing Patterns of Social Stratification at the Local and the Global Level
Globalization and Changing Patterns of Social Stratification at the Local and the Global Level
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 10:45-12:15
Location:
WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Globalization is a process which affects simultaneously both the developed and developing societies in a variety of ways. The forms of globalization can be analysed in terms of two sets of dimensions- spatio-temporal and organizational. Spatio-temporal dimensions consist of the extensity of global networks, the intensity of global interconnectedness, the velocity of global flows and the impact propensity of global interconnectedness. The organizational dimensions, however, include the infrastructure of globalization, the institutionalization of global networks and the exercise of power, the patterns of global stratification and the dominant modes of global interaction. As a structural process the globalization has implications for the stratification system at the local, national, regional and the global level. It not only creates transnational institutions and complex hierarchical organizations for its operation but also transforms the existing forms of social stratification in different societies at different levels. The power also shifts to some extent not only from political to economic and social spheres but also in terms of space, from national to transnational as well as at the local level. This proposes to analyze the changing patterns of stratification both in the developed and developing societies at different levels-the local, the national, the regional and the global. The proposed session will be focused on these issues.
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