by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Globalisation A2
Find evidence of your own contact with globalisation: Look at the labels in your clothes/shoes and find four different countries in which they have been produced. Identify four events in distant parts of the world that you have seen on TV in the last month. Identify...
by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Globalisation A2
Dominic Strinati (1995) identifies five main features of current popular culture that reflect postmodern influences. These are: A breakdown of the distinction between culture and society. For example, media images increasingly dominate our sense of reality and how we...
by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Globalisation A2
We can analyse different aspects of our lives and careers in terms of the ’risks’ described by Ulrich Beck. Working in pairs: Carry out a content analysis of some newspapers. What ‘risks’ do they identify? Classify them into different sorts of risk (e.g. health risks,...
by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Globalisation A2
Complete the summary below, using the list of words that follows: For Marxists, postmodernity is the most recent stage of__________,rather than being a break away from capitalism. As society has changed, the working class have become less__________and have lost much...
by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Globalisation A2
Read the following extract and discuss the question that follows. An annual review by Income Data Services showed that the average total earnings of the chief executives of the FTSE 100 companies – the UK’s 100 largest quoted companies – in 2005-06 were £2m. By...
by John Amy | Mar 19, 2014 | Globalisation A2
The nation-state; bureaucratic institutions; capitalism; mass production; rationality; science; technology; individualism. Technological development; global media; geographical mobility; the growth of transnational corporations; loss of power of nation-states. A set...
