Globalization and Social Movements

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In this discussion of globalization and world economy, the writer examines how historically, social movements have arisen, when groups of people have come together to change a larger structural force that controlled their lives. The writer mentions that they are sometimes defined as networks of interaction between actors. The writer argues that while globalization has both aided and hindered collective actions and the formations of social movements, the net effect is favorable.

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"Globalization has come to be a shorthand term for the process by which the world's economy and thus its economic power structure has been knit together into an increasingly interlinked and integrated network. This process has given rise to a controversy that is itself global in scope. As meetings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and similar bodies representative of global economic elite interests shift from one continent or another, anti-globalization protesters follow them. A few may do ..."

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