Paris Bombing Sociology

After the Paris bombings, Facebook users from the around the world overlaid their profile pictures with the colors of the French flag. This symbolic gesture that was created with the intent of expressing Facebook user’s sympathy to the victims and their families was quickly criticized by many people from across the world. Although the general population believes the Paris bombings are a tragedy, many believe that the recognition of the Paris bombings and not other tragedies displays Facebook’s favoritism of western nations (Mutnick). The social media reaction to the Paris bombings and its consequent criticism reflects a seemingly distinct phenomenon: human rights as it is impacted by globalization. Without a doubt, globalization has increased …show more content…
211) The primary objective of this coalition was to further women’s rights on a global scale. In spite of a unified objective, just like the anti-globalization movement, individual perspectives resulted in organizational dissemination through the creation of multiple networks with varying approaches to women’s rights. Within and across groups, there were various conflicts finding a balance between advocacy versus movement. Consequently, this led to tension within formal organizations and an inability to properly cooperate. Even though these various international groups were fighting for the same cause, differences in approach proved to be significant. Albeit, unlike the anti-globalization movement, the global feminism movement has had significant accomplishments that to many, outweigh their weaknesses. One of the biggest successes was exposing to the global community the atrocities Algerian and Afghan women were subjected to during the 1990’s (Steger). Still, had those differences in ideology not been present or better compromises between factions been reached, there might have been more progress in the area of women’s