Sabancı University
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Social and Political Sciences Program
Presents
A Power Point Presentation
“The Dynamics of Globalization
and its Impact on Society
in the 21st Century”
by
Prof.
Dr. Berch Berberoğlu
Professor of Sociology and
Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology
University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
14:00, FASS 2034
In this
presentation, Prof. Berberoğlu examines the nature and dynamics of
globalization and outlines its economic, social, political, ideological,
cultural, and environmental impact on society in the early twenty-first
century. He argues that the globalization of capital and the restructuring of
production by the transnational corporations on a world scale have brought
about the transformation of the international division of labor. This
transformation in the labor force structure of the world economy, he argues,
has meant increasing unemploy-ment and outsourcing of manufacturing jobs from
the advanced capitalist centers to the low-wage sweatshops of the third world
where the cost of labor is lower and profits are higher for the transnational
corporations that have come to dominate the global economy. He contends that the expansion of the worldwide
economic power of transnationals has translated into greater political power,
resulting in control and domination of the state and public policy in countries
in which they operate. Such unmitigated power of global capital, Prof. Berberoğlu
concludes, has serious political implications for society, including questions
of war and peace, economic well-being and the quality of life, as well as
democratic governance and social justice – questions that are of great concern
for the future course of society and societal development in the twenty-first
century.
Dr.
Berch Berberoğlu is Professor of
Sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he has been teaching and
conducting research for the past 30 years. He served as chair of the sociology department for eight years, from
1993 to 2001. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oregon
in 1977. Dr. Berberoğlu has published 25 books and many articles. His most recent books include Labor and
Capital in the Age of Globalization (2002), Globalization of Capital and
the Nation-State (2003), Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Class, State,
and Nation in the Age of Globalization (2004) and Globalization and
Change: The Transformation of Global Capitalism (2005). His areas of specialization
include political economy, globalization, third world development, political
sociology, nationalism/ethno-national conflict, and comparative-historical
sociology. His latest book, The State and Revolution in the Twentieth
Century: Major Social Transformations of Our Time, was published by Rowman
and Littlefield in January 2007. You can visit his web site at www.unr.edu/cla/soc/berchb.htm
or e-mail him at berchb@unr.edu