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ODTU KKK >>Haber |
Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus
Political Science and International Relations Program
Presents
A Power Point Presentation
“The Dynamics of Globalization
and its Impact on Society
in the 21st Century”
by
Prof. Dr. Berch Berberoglu, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies
University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Time: 17.30
Building & Room: Culture and Convention Center, Amfi 3
In this presentation, Prof. Berberoglu 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 capital has translated into greater political power, resulting in control and domination of the state and public policy in countries in which it operates. Such unmitigated power of global capital, Prof. Berberoglu 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 Berberoglu is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he has been teaching and conducting research for the past 32 years. He served as chair of the sociology department for eight years, from 1993 to 2001 and again from 2007 to the present. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1977. Dr. Berberoglu has published 26 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), Globalization and Change: The Transformation of Global Capitalism (2005), The State and Revolution in the 20th Century: Major Social Transformations of Our Time (2007), and Class and Class Conflict in the Age of Globalization (2009). Dr. Berberoglu's areas of specialization include political economy, globalization, third world development, political sociology, nationalism and ethno-national conflict, and comparative-historical sociology. His latest book, Globalization in the 21st Century: Labor, Capital, and the State on a World Scale, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in early 2010. You can visit his web site at www.unr.edu/cla/soc/berchb.htm or e-mail him at berchb@unr.edu