Globalisation, society and exclusion in the 21st century

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Globalisation, society and exclusion in the 21st
century

• INFORMATION SOCIAL EXCLUSIONModule code
  SM1061N Lecture 1 5 February, 2008
• Maykel Perez

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Introduction to the Module

• Module aims
• Learning outcomes
• Lecture outlines
• Seminars and workshops
• Readings, WebCT, Assessment
• Cultural analysis of a chosen community
• Evaluation of a Social Inclusion policy

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CAPITALISM OLD AND NEW

• OLD Based on the same relationships of
  production.
• NEW Transformations under way triggered by

• The information Revolution
• The processes of Globalisation
• Networks as the dominant organisational logic

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ICT AS A STRATEGIC TOOL

• Large extent of the planet organised around
  telecommunicated networks of computers
• Human activity accommodated to that
  infrastructure
• ICT understood as a pre-requisite for economic
  and social development

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GLOBALISATION

• Multidimensional, but mainly an economic
  phenomenon
• Dependent on technological infrastructure
• Selective, Segmented
• Currently based on neo-liberal values and
  doctrines

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NETWORKING AS THE NEW DOMINANT ORGANISATIONAL FORM

• CORE CHARACTERISTICS
• Adaptation
• Flexibility
• Decentralisation
• Based on a logic of inclusion and exclusion

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UNDERSTANDING POVERTY AND INEQUALITY.

• Relationships of Consumption Appropriation by
  people of the product of their work.
• Inequality unequal appropriation of wealth by
  individuals or social groups
• Polarisation Specific process of inequality that
  occurs when both the top and the bottom of a
  scale of wealth distribution grow faster than the
  middle.
• Poverty Institutionally defined norm
  establishing the level of income that a society
  considers necessary to live according to an
  accepted standard.
• Misery Institutionally defined level that
  establishes the lowest material standard of
  living, making survival problematic

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UNDERSTANDING POVERTY AND INEQUALITY.

• Relationships of Production ways and means
  through which people provide for their
  livelihood.
• Conditions affecting relationships of
  consumption
• Growing individualisation of labour
• Over exploitation
• Social exclusion
• Social underdevelopment

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INFORMATIONAL CAPITALISM AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS (I)

• Distribution of ICT extremely uneven
• Availability of ICT does not automatically
  translates into economic and social development

• Education General and Technical
• Appropriate organisational environment

• Without education, infrastructure, and
  appropriate organisational forms,
  underdevelopment becomes cumulative.

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INFORMATIONAL CAPITALISM AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS (II)

• Previous forms of production destructed
• Extreme inequality linked to the flexibility and
  global reach of informational capitalism (logic
  of inclusion or exclusion)
• Welfare states under attack, regulation breaks
  down, the social contract is challenged

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INFORMATIONAL CAPITALISM AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS (III)
INFORMATIONAL CAPITALISM Multinational
Corporations Global Financial Markets Highly
concentrated systems of research and development

• New organisational logic Networks
• Inclusion / exclusion
• flexibility

Survives by Restructuring, bypassing, adapting,
re-form
People, countries, regions excluded become
devalued, trapped, wasted
SOCIAL UNDERDEVELOPMENT
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• Lecture notes, references, etc
• http//www.soi.city.ac.uk/abct353/
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