Globalisation and Social Change — Sociology STD 12 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 HumanitiesSociologyGlobalisation and Social Change6 Marks
Question
In what ways does globalisation affect culture? Explain.
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Answer
Globalisation indicates the growing independence between different peoples, regions and countries in the world as social and economic relationships come to stretch worldwide.
Due to globalisation a new international division of labour has come out in which more and more routine manufacturing production and employment is done in the third world cities.
The globalisation affect the laboring populations. The MNCs seek those countries where they may have cheap labour e.g. when the labour costs grew in south korea the nike shoe company shifted to Thailand and Indonesia. However, in the 1990s we in India produce Nike. This total process makesw the laboring population very vulnerable an insecure.
Globalisation also affect employment. The middle class youth from urban centers, globalisation and the IT revolution has opened up new career opportunities.
The collapse of the erstwhile socialist world has hastened globalization. The neo-liberal economic measures have changed the whole economic and political vision. The growth of international and regional mechanism for political collaboration has made new vistas e.g. EU, ASEAN, SAARC and SAFTA are doing an important role.
Globalisation is posing serious threat to indigenous craft and literary traditions and knowledge system e.g. about 30 theater groups that were active around the textile mills area of Parel and Girgaum of Mumbai city, have become defunct as most of the mill workers have lost their jobs in these areas. In the some way, there were reports of large number of suicides by the traditional weavers in Sircilla village of Karim Nagar district and in Dubakka village in Medak district of AP.
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