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Sociology Assignment

Najeebullah is taking a sociology course and has an assignment to submit to Professor Sobia on how applied sociology can be useful in this era of globalization. The document discusses how globalization has challenged traditional sociological concepts and frameworks. It argues that the concept of "society" is no longer adequate given increasing global integration and interconnectivity. Instead, sociology needs to move towards a "sociology of one world" and analyze how social life is ordered across time and space through overlapping networks rather than focus only on individual societies. It also examines how globalization impacts societies economically, politically, and culturally.

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Sociology Assignment

Najeebullah is taking a sociology course and has an assignment to submit to Professor Sobia on how applied sociology can be useful in this era of globalization. The document discusses how globalization has challenged traditional sociological concepts and frameworks. It argues that the concept of "society" is no longer adequate given increasing global integration and interconnectivity. Instead, sociology needs to move towards a "sociology of one world" and analyze how social life is ordered across time and space through overlapping networks rather than focus only on individual societies. It also examines how globalization impacts societies economically, politically, and culturally.

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Name: Najeebullah

Subject: sociology

Assignment submit to : mam Sobia

Group A: how applied sociology can be useful in this era of globalization

ANALYSIS
It seems that most sociologists of the era of modern orthodoxy believed that all being said – the
nation-state is close enough to its own postulate of sovereignty to validate the use of its
theoretical expression – the ‘society’ concept – as an adequate framework for sociological
analysis. In the postmodern world, this belief carries less conviction than ever before.

If we look into the recent writings of Mann (1986), Robertson (2000), Giddens (1990) and
Bauman (1992), we would immediately find that they all talk about the redundancy of the
concept of society in the context of contemporary globalization. Mann, for instance, states: “I
would abolish the concept of ‘society’ altogether.”

Instead, he conceives of “societies not as unitary social systems or bounded totalities but as
constituted by multiple overlapping and intersecting socio-spatial networks of power”.

According to him, the concept of society is a bounded system, it should be replaced by a


starting point that concentrates upon analyzing how social life is ordered across time and space
– the problem of time-space distanciation. McGrew concludes that globalization dislodges
society from its focal position in the discourse of modern sociology. But what is there to replace
it?

The globalization of society means that societies are no longer the prime units of
sociology. What is to replace this focus on societies is a ‘sociology of one world’ which
recognizes that “global processes are now partly constitutive of social reality
everywhere”.
It is not only about the redundancy of the concept of society, in fact, globalization has
rendered many of our sociological concepts irrelevant. Archer delivers a radical
challenge to both orthodox and postmodernist sociological thinking. She argues that
globalization demands a critical rethinking of the sociological enterprise to reflect the
arrival of one world.

Such rethinking, she proposes, “has to be fired by a commitment to both reason and
humanity, and so requires a re-centering of reasoning and the human being within the
sociological enterprise”. For Archer, reasoning and humanity constitute bridge to
international sociology and so to delivering “sociology for one world”.

Malcolm Waters and a few other sociologists have argued that globalization has three
major perspectives or aspects, namely, economic, political and cultural. In the following
sections we will discuss these three perspectives.”.

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