320f16 week2

1. Globalization and Culture
Week 2
September 7, 2016
Megasporting Events & Global Inequality

2. Globalization & Guns
● Explanation of Research Groups
● Topic brainstorm

3. Group Discussion
● Introduce yourselves.
● For each reading, identify key examples of
inequality related to global megasporting
events.
● Share what you wrote about in your posts about
what could be done to address these problems.
● How do the concepts of globalization and
culture help us make sense of these issues?
● Do you think the negative outweighs the
positive for these events? Do we need the
Olympics? Why or why not?

4. The Price of the World Cup (2014)