Sociology is the systematic study of human society in different environments.
Global Sociology is.......???????......wait what?
Most of us have been studying Sociology since freshman year. We understand what it is, how it works and how people study it. However, do we really know what global sociology is? I honestly still don't have any clue what it really is and apparently neither do most sociologists. They can't seem to put a permanent definition on it and I am not going to try to do it either, I am just an unemployed college student who is barely sneaking by with his grades. If sociologists can't put a definition on it then neither can I. However, I want to try to somewhat understand global sociology.
So sociology is focused on human society in different environments. So if you add the word global to sociology then wouldn't you assume that its just the study of sociology but of human society as a whole? Not just within one culture, group of people, or even one nation but the world as a whole? That's what it means to me but how could it be that simple and yet there is no set definition on global sociology? Maybe a "definition" that us college students can better understand will help?
I chose this video because most of us college students can relate to this, drinking. This video shows us the global sociology of alcohol advertising and how it has affected the world. Hopefully this gives us a somewhat better understanding of what global sociology is with an example we can relate with.
-Zakerie Krause
I agree with you that the whole concept of "Global-Sociology" is an inherently difficult concept to come to grips with. I can also attest that as someone who has taken more than my fair share of Soc. classes that the discipline is often based upon a localized view of the world. When I was in the lower level Soc, courses even while I was learning the definitions of words like "ethnocentrism" I was being taught from a slightly euro-centric viewpoint. Perhaps that might be due to being taught from an uniquely American view of Sociology (as Burroway states is sometimes the M.O. in his article). The alcohol video is also quite interesting and I was wondering what you thought about the fact that many of these alcohol companies are from Western (i.e. primarily capitalistic countries) and whether or not they are a reflection of a problematic system of dominance?
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