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This course explores the global nature of contemporary social change. It takes globalization as the master trend reshaping social life everywhere and as a distinctive character of the current capitalist restructuring. It studies globalization in its different contexts: economic, social, cultural, techno logical...etc. it also examines the current and unprecedented flow of capital, information, commodities technologies, and ideologies across national borders. In addition, it analyzes the different shapes and forms that global forces take to penetrate societies on one hand, and how local societies react to such forces on the other. Thus it studies the mutual and interactive relationships between the local and global contexts.
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