DRAWING THE LINES: ECONOMIC INTERNATIONALIZATION AND SOCIAL POLARIZATION

2003 ◽  
pp. 92-109
Keyword(s):  
Social Polarization

Social Polarization

1994 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Rutkevich
Keyword(s):  
Social Polarization

Understanding Globalized Digital Labor in the Information Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime F. Cárdenas-García ◽  
Bruno Soria De Mesa ◽  
Diego Romero Castro
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Digital Workplace ◽  
Digital Labor ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Good For

Abstract The development of globalized digital labor brings to mind a labor process that seems to have changed dramatically from that of the industrial age. The toil of low-wage manual labor inside extensive buildings with smokestacks prevalent in the industrial age seems to have evolved into well-paid, enjoyable, meaningful labor in elegant buildings in tune with spacious vegetation-filled campuses. At the same time, social polarization is increasing with the threat of minimum-wage service labor and labor-replacing robots seeming to be the order of the day. The bottom line that drives this process seems to be the same as always, i.e. what benefits the capitalist owner is what is good for the digital workplace. This article seeks to identify and demystify the fundamental elements of digital labor in the globalized information age.

Anatomy of a Violent Protest Wave: Understanding the Mechanisms of Escalation and De-Escalation in Far-Right and Anti-Fascist Street Clashes

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-209
Author(s):  
Leanne C. Serbulo
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
State Security ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract With the rise of right-wing populist ideologies and ensuing social polarization, political violence has become more widespread. Between 2017 and 2019, far-right extremists and anti-fascists engaged in more than twenty violent protest clashes in Portland, Oregon, USA. Through a protest event analysis of those clashes supplemented with a case study of the protest wave, this paper explores how the mechanisms of radicalization and de-radicalization operate when two violent protest movements collide and interact with state security forces. The three-way interaction among a movement, counter-movement, and the police can produce unanticipated outcomes. For example, rather than de-escalating the situation, police underbidding resulted in an increase in violence between the two movements. Understanding how the mechanisms of radicalization and de-radicalization function in a movement/counter-movement protest cycle can provide insight into the ways in which a movement’s strategy and their adversaries’ responses to it can increase or decrease levels of violence.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL POLARIZATION IN MODERN CITIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 92-97
Author(s):  
G. P. Podolian
Keyword(s):  
Social Situation ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Communication Interaction ◽  
Big City ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article is devoted to the analysis of complex processes of social polarization as an integral feature of the modern life of big cities, which manifests itself in the confrontation of the elite and disadvantaged segments of the urban population. It is emphasized on the spectrum of the main causes, characteristic features that have determined the rise of these trends in modern cities around the world. Emphasis is placed on the devastating impact of social polarization on the social foundations of communication, interaction and integration of different segments of the population within one city. By comparing the practice of the existence of cities in classical cultures with the modern experience of func- tioning of large cities, the main causes of such a situation are analyzed. The universal include: globalization, NTP and urbanization. Other, not less significant, include economic ones: formation of world interdependence, first of all, in economic activity, becoming of post-industrial production with appropriate type, practices and values, increase of level and possibilities of technological transformations, existence of competitive ways of production, uneven development of production, increasing dependence of many economies from tourism development, poverty growth and the emergence of megabidonville, international labor migration rates; social: the emergence and subsequent dominance of a new type of intellectual elite focused on global communication space (cyberspace), the formation of "closed spaces" for different layers within the same city, breaking a complex network of relationships and interaction between different layers, leaving the solution of local problems to solve poor people, displacing the poorer from the best places of urban infrastructure, rigid polarization and segregation between different layers; cultural: the presence in the vast majority of large cities of ethnic groups, races and peoples; worldviews: fear, uncertainty in the future, vulnerability of the social situation in the conditions of "current modernity". An analysis of the dynamic nature of urban life has allowed to identify the main drivers of social polarization – myxophobia and myxophilia and to determine their negative influences and positive possibilities of maintaining social communication, interaction, agreements, exchanges in the context of the functioning of the big city of the modern global world.

From Chicago to China and India: Studying the City in the Twenty-First Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 497-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuefei Ren
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Urban China ◽  
First Century ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
China And India ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
The City

Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, cities in the Global South have seen extraordinary growth, with China and India as the epicenters of urbanization. This essay critically assesses the state of the field of global urban studies and focuses particularly on the scholarship relating to urban China and India. The essay identifies three dominant paradigms in the scholarship: the global city thesis, neoliberalism, and postcolonialism. In contrast to US urban sociology, which is often preoccupied with the question of how neighborhood effects reproduce inequality, global urban studies account for a much wider array of urban processes, such as global urban networks, social polarization, and the transformation of the built environment. This essay points out the disconnect between US urban sociology and global urban studies and proposes a comparative approach as a way to bridge the divide.

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