The impact of Globalisation (Student Takeover)

In this student takeover episode, Naomi Hoffman from Colchester Sixth Form College dicusses the impact of Globalisation on the UK and applies some key sociological theory to the debate. 

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Episode Transcript

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is all about globalizations impact on the UK. Before we
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l y dot com Forward slash Sociology Show Tutoring. So
this episode is a student special. So I had a
message from a student called Nami Hoffman who goes to
Colchester sixth Form College, and she sent me a file
and said that she's recorded something on globalization's impact on
the UK asked me to take a listen, and I
was so impressed with it. It was so well researched

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and so well thought out. I said to Naomi that
I put the episode out for her. So whichever topic
or area you are studying, globalization is going to come up.
It's one of those synoptic areas, synoptic topics. Globalization comes
up in education, it comes up in crime, it comes
up in media. It's one of those terms that covers
all different aspects and areas of sociology. So a really

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really important term to understand. If you are interested in
doing something for The Sociology Show podcast, then all you
need to do is record an MP three file send
it to me. So my email address is the Sociology
Show Podcast at gmail dot com. I'll take a listen
and I can put out an episode for you, just
like Naomi did. So without further ado, let's go over

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to the podcast. Thank you very much. Naomi Hoffman from
Culches to sixth form College.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Okay, so today I'll be jussing whether the globalization benefits
all countries. When we talked about globalization and a level sociology,
I feel like it's very focused on Vexa has in
the UK and countries in the global North, but not
so much countries in Global South, like India, China, the continents,
of South America and Africa, and I feel like it's
very important to know about the VECTA has in them
two as many of the resources for trading technology we

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wouldn't have without the global sealth. In this podcast, I'll
talk about globalization's impact on the UK and how it
fits countries in the Global South. I relate these to
the topics of education and families, as well as evaluating
them with different sociologists perspectives. The definition of globalization is
the world becoming increasingly interconnected via technology, travel and trade.

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Globalization obviously has its positives and negatives for most countries,
but some parts of the world experienced the negative consequences
far more. Most simply put countries in the global North
the most globalizations, countries in the South South of the
most from globalization. So first we'll talk about education. So
technology is used to share ideas across nations, such as

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US charter schools influencing the creation of UK academies. Technology
is also used to give opportunities for remote learning, such
as being widely used in the COVID nineteen pandemic. According
to MPR dot org, Cobalt is used for smartphones, computers, batteries,
and electrical vehicles. However, this involves extremely dangerous labor for
just a few dollars a day by exporting people and children.

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In twenty twenty one, the DRC produced approximately seventy four
percent of the world's cobalt. Also, Mitchelton Brown argues that
industries like steel, iron mining and engineering have mood broad
as labor is cheaper there. So this is another example
of that and led to the decline in traditional mail
jobs in the UK, especially for working classmen, and it
has led to an identity crisis for young males in education.

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So this also shows how there's negative impacts in people
in the UK as well as from countries in the
Global South. Marxists would highlight that this is an example
of workers becoming isolated from their work and exploiting the
poor by making companies and CEOs richer. So the company's
CEOs are from the most money by paying the work
is the least amount of money. While technology may be
useful for countries spuriers and communication, the same technology only

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exists through exploitation of people in the Global South. This
highlights how countries both from go North and South can
suffer from this. Okay, it's now into families, so there's
been an increase of nannies from poor countries. An extract
from the book Global Women, Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers
in the New Economy by Barbara Ehenreich and Arlie Rossell

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Horosschild So I've pronounced that wrong states that women from
poor developing countries are migrating to developed nations to work
as maids and nannies to raise other people's children, but
not able to raise their children back in their home countries.
Probably pushes these women to leave their home countries. So
this has led to flow a female labor when women
from Global South countries migrated to do quote unquote women's

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work in the North. This is partially because there's been
an increase of female breadwinners in the Global North. So
both parents are busy at work and don't have time
to look after their children, so they need a nanny
to look after children. Also, countries like the US do
not offer public childcare for working mothers, so this is
another reason why nannies from a global seuth come to
work for families in the Global North. But as upclass

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and UK families benefit from purchasing these nannies, the NAIs
have to change their whole lives and across the globe
and ban their children to do so. The difference Showness
would argue that this highlights that women aren't heterogeneous and
not every woman experiences the own difficulties. So if you're
a woman from a global South and you're working class

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and you're a marginalized ethnicity in the UK, then you're
going to be more oppressed and more compared to upper
class white British families. Globalization has also led to an
increase of trade, so therefore an increase of overconsumption, especially
from the globe North. Marxist Zetsky likes how families at

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as an important market for the sale of consumer goods
and capitalists can easily profit off them and see operusts
of workers for more than they pay them. So I guess,
like for example, miners in Congo, that's an example of that.
Adverts like the Joneses highlight the pressure to consume the
latest products and keep up with the latest trends, as

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well as this pestive power from children and pressure their
parents into buying them products. So they're obviously influenced by
the media to get more toys as they are believed
that these toys will bring them happiness. However, the Global
South suffer immensely from this, not only from working in sweatshops,
but also the consequences of buying all these products. The

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Center for International Environmental Law says that eighty percent of
toys end up in anfields, in surats or oceans, an
account for almost six percent of blandfill, plastics business ways
dot co UK highlights across the world each year there's
ninety two million tons of textiles waste and this is
responsible for ten percent of greenhouse gases. The cost of

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living crisis has also influenced families and people to buy
clothes from fast fashion brands as they're cheaper and they
can get more of them for a cheaper amount these brands.
So these are brands like H and M, Sheene, Primark,
and so on. However, countries from Global South, although not
the ones that are over consuming, usually face the results
of this overconsumption and this waste of textiles and products

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that is purchased from the Global South experienced the effects
of climate change the most sample countries like Kenya. According
to Greenpeace, second hand clothes are given to poorer countries
like Kenya. The clothes that are imported are usually poor
qual to and this also shows how countries are from
Gal South have to deal with consequences of vast fashion.

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In twenty nineteen, Kenya imported one hundred and eighty five
thousand tons of secondhand clothes and thirty to forty percent
of it having no value than five hunds to a
tenty four thousand tons was textiles waste, and about one
hundred and fifty to two hundred tons of this ways
ended up being dumped, burned or sent to overflow dumb
sites like Dundura. So this is also a feature of

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climate colonialism, which is the exploitation of resources empowered by
Global North countries when dealing with climate change. So like
Global North countries usually abuse their positions of power and
wealth and dump their like products such as like overflowing
like waste of textiles to global Talth countries and export

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their solutions abroad rather than trying to fix their ways
of pollution. The semstrates how families in Global North now
have access and more choice to buy products that keep
them the latest trends and mature objects like toys to
feel that to fill their interests of their children. However,
the Global South suffer immensely from the consequences of this overconsumption,

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which leads to excess waste which is exported to Global
South countries, creating more pollution and damage to those nations.
Marsters will be critical of this as not only fast
fashion companies are creating anither coal places of work, but
they clearly don't care about the impact that has environment
around them. They care most about the profits and getting
the most money by sending these clothes for cheap and

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when no one wants them, landfall sites will give them
to countries and Global South, which is also quite patronizing
to the people in the Global South and makes it
seem as they are like blow the Global North because
they're getting the remains that they don't want. In conclusion,
globalization has many benefits towards the UK, like more migration

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so better economy, as does more care as there's more terrors,
more domestic jobs and more people working for the NHS,
and there's also an increase in technology. But the very
things that we benefit from come from places of abuse
and exploitation in which Global Salth countries suffer from, so
not all countries who benefit from globalization, and maybe we

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should think next time the things that we have, the
mature things that we have in our homes where they're
originally from one of their from places of ethical work backgrounds.
Thank you for listening.

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