Sociology Global Identity Cultural Globalization Environment & Poverty Questions

Week 9 — Global Identity

1. What is a nation? What is nationalism?
2. What is micro nations, region-nations, and transworld nations?
3. How Does Globalization Contribute to Identity Hybridization?
4. Has globalization put an end to the national project?
5. What is a non-territorial identity? What are examples of non-territorial identities? How has globalization been enhancing such identities?

Week 10 — Cultural Globalization

1. What is culture according to Steger? How does he define cultural globalization? Is cultural globalization a recent phenomenon?
2. What is the homogenization debate? Is it true that globalization make people more alike?
3. Who are the pessimistic hyperglobalizers and what do they stand for?
4. What is the main argument of optimistic hyperglobalizers?
5. What is glocalization? Who coined this term?
6. What is the Americanization of the society? How can we understand this concept using McDonald’s as an example?
7. What role does the media play in cultural globalization?

Week 11 — Globalization and (In)Security

• Peace and War

1. In what way has globalization threatened human security on the structural level?
2. Is it true that globalization has not enhanced human security at all? Discuss.
3. In what way has globalization been contributing to world peace?
4. Why are countries no longer interested in going to war with each other in the old traditional way?
5. What is suprastate governance? How does it work and what its impact?
6. In what way has globalization been contributing to global violence?

• Environment

1. How is environment linked to globalization?
2. In what way has globalization been affecting our environment?
3. What is the impact of environmental degradation on the global processes?

• Poverty

1. In an age of intensified and accelerated globalization where the whole world is economically integrated and interdependent, why is the majority of the world’s population suffer from poverty? Why are there poor and rich regions?
2. What are the sociological debates on the relationship between globalization and poverty?
3. How do rejectionists view the impact of globalization on the poor? In what way their vision contradicts that of the neoliberals?

Week 12 — Globalization and Immigration

1. In her article on the migrant Filipina domestic workers, Rhacel Salzar Parrenas mainly argues that… (mention main argument).
2. What does Parrenas mean by migrant Filipina domestic workers experience “partial citizenship”?
3. Parrenas chose Rome and Los Angeles as two cities to study the migrant Filipina domestic workers because…
4. The creation of the Philippine labour diaspora was initially possible because what Parrenas calls …
5. Parrenas studies the experiences of those workers within a framework of four key institutions of migration…
6. What Parrenas means by the global restructuring of the Philippines is…
7. Parrenas uses three different units/levels of analysis to understand the consequences of globalization on the Filippina migrant diaspora…

Week 13 — Globalization and Religion

1. Why did early sociologists ignore globalization in the study of religion?
2. Some scholars argue that religions are inherently global since they are concerned with…
3. Debates on religion and globalization have intensified, especially with the rise of the so-called…
4. How have religion-motivated radical groups been benefiting from globalization?
5. How did non-violent religious groups instrumentalized globalization to spread peace and non-violent resistance? Give examples.

Week 14 — The Future of Globalization

1. Mention a few examples of crises that have previously disrupted or expected to disrupt the global processes.
2. Based on your understanding of the different dimensions of globalization, how has the Covid-19 pandemic affecting the processes of globalization?
3. Will globalization come to an end in the future? Explain whether you agree or disagree.