First of all what is implication? The easiest way to explain this word is deduction, or better way we can ask the question is ‘What can we conclude from looking at all of this?’ I can say that the answer is definitely that something new has been created. You could say a new methodology.
Our way of studying sociology has changed completely in the last few years. Sociology is not linear but is a complex, nonlinear subject. Our way of looking at things has changed with different tools and technology being added into our toolbox. Example of the technology like internet our communication has changed drastically. Our communication is not moving in one line and moving our information from one point through lot of different points until it reach the spot we need but the information can travel straight from one point to the end point. The pictures show you exactly what I mean.
Technology connects us to one another. We are not in a simple chain anymore. We have created a more complex community/network. Like a molecule that has connections all over.
Globalization is another example of how complex our network has become. Everything has moved everywhere. Meaning everything has mixed together. Some people would say creating every place the same. Easier way to say it is that every place is becoming one huge homogeneous culture. I will say that is not true, even with globalization place stays unique. Example would be McDonald’s being everywhere. Yes McDonald’s appears everywhere but it is not the same in every place. McDonalds has adapted into each culture. If it would be homogeneous it would be same yet you can get a burger called Chicken Maharaja Mac in India which is equivalent to the Big Mac here in Ireland, yet they look totally different, and I bet they taste different too. I have also noticed no beef on the Indian menu in McDonald’s. Globalization is complex.
This new complex network will be studied through social geography differently from now on. It has started using science, mathematics instead of consisting of quantitative and qualitative research. As Castell has said “ The sociology of the network society will develop through synergy among relevant theorizing, computational literacy, and sociological imagination.”
Castells, M., 2000. Toward a Sociology of the Network Society. Contemporary Sociology, 29(5), pp. 698.
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