Global Citizenship (SumBlog 3)

Through out class this week we learned about global identity, along with this we learned about two theoretical approaches that are used. The first one is identify theory, in class we learned that individuals’ self-perceived roles and relationships are based on social characteristics like race, class, gender and religion along with many others. Many roles structure interactions and social networks. The other theory we learned was the social identity theory. This theory stresses social categories that we perceive membership. It has to with concern with the inter-group interactions and normative process of self-evaluation within these groups. A lot is based off of social comparison. From here we learned about being a global citizen. To me being a global citizen is when you know what is going on in the world around you, you make an effort to learn other cultures and the way other societies work. When I think of global citizenship I also relate that to volunteering, in your own country as well as others. I would not say that I am fully a global citizen. But I am definitely working on becoming more informed and really caring about what is going on in the world and not just focused on my own country.

I found a video that I really like and I think it explains why being a global citizen is important. For me it feels like I am part of a movement, globalization is relatively, new term in the aspect of sociology. However, I don’t think it is new as a whole. If you think about it religion, food, economies and even English are fairly global and have been for quite some time. Now it is time for people to become global and recognize that there is life outside of their own familiar county. I will continue to try to be a global citizen and inform people of this movement.