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CONTEMP WORLD QUIZ 1 Flashcards

1
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The term ‘globalization’ can be traced back to the early ___

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1960s

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2
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globaliation surfaced
as the buzzword of the

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Roaring Nineties

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3
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‘Globalization’ has been variously used in both popular and academic
literature to describe a

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cfaps
condition, force, age, process, system

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4
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adopt the term
globality to signify a social condition
characterized by tight global economic,
political, cultural, and environmental
intercoonections and glows that make
most of the currently existing boarders
and boundaries irrelevant

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Manfred Steger

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5
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signifies a future social conditions characterized by
thick economic, polictical and cultural interconnections
and global flows that make currently existing political
borders and economic barriers relevant

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globality

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6
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as a social processes that
are changing our current
social condition based on
the modern system of
independent nation-states

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globaliation

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7
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social connections diagram divided into 3

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tranplanetory, space, supraterritoriality

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8
Q

o a set of social processes that appear to
transform our present social condition of weakening nationality into one of
globality

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globaliation

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9
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Affirmations of Globalization Implies three Assertions

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  1. we are slowly leaving behind the condition of modern nationality
  2. we are moving towards the new condition of postmodern
    globality;
  3. we have not yet reached it
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10
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a concept referring to people’s growing
consciousness of belonging to a global community.

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global imaginary

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11
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Globalization is an _____ process, meaning that people living in various
parts of the world are affected very differently by this gigantic transformation
of social structures and cultural zones

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uneven

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12
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3 grps of critics

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mrs

rejectionist
sceptics
modifier

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13
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scholars who dismiss the utility of globaliatyion as an analytical concept typically advance their arguments from within a larger criticism of similarly vague words employed in a academic discourse

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rejectionist

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14
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person in rejectionist

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susan strange 1996

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15
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considers globaliation a prime example of such vacuous term, suggesting that it has been used in academic discourse to refer to “anything from the internet to a hambuger”

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susan strange from rejectionist

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16
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emphasie the limited nature of current globaliing processes, emphasiing that the world in not nearly as integrated as many globaaliation proponents believe

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sceptics

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17
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claim that the world economy is not a truly global phenomenon; without a truly global economic system, there can be no such thing as globaliation

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hirst and thompson (2009) from sceptics

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18
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advance an argument against the existence of economic globaliation based on empirical data in order to attack the general misuse of the concept. without a truly global economic system, they insist, there can be no such thing as globaliation.

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hirst and thompson

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19
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disputes the novelty of the process while acknowledging the existence of moderate globaliing tendencies. argue that those who refer to globaliation as a recent process miss the bigger picture and fall prey to their narrow historical framework

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modifier

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20
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post war international economy in the late 1990s appeared to be even less integrated

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glipin 2000

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21
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global integration to be a process driven largely by economic forces whose essence can be captured by economistic analytical models and that culture and ideology are merely idea systems that are dependent on the real movements of the capitalistic world economy

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wallerstein 1990

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22
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___ out of ___ definitions of globaliation constitutes to economic dimension

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67 out of 114

23
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focus more on the interaction between dominant class interest and cultural transnational practices.

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barry gills

24
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highlights the
importance of culture-ideology of global consumerism

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leslie sklair

25
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Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link
distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles
away and vice versa

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anthony giddens, former director of london school of economics

26
Q

‘The concept of globalization reflects the sense of an immense enlargement of world
communication, as well as of the horizon of a world market, both of which seem far more tangible
and immediate than in earlier stages of modernity

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fredric jameson

27
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‘Globalization may be thought of as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a
transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions – assessed in terms
of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact – generating transcontinental or interregional flows
and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power

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david held

28
Q

Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and
the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole

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roland robertson

29
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Globalization compresses the time and space aspects of social relations.’

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james mittelman

30
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  • global ‘network society’ required a technological revolution
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manuel castells

31
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refers to barriers that prevent or make
difficult the movement of things.

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solidity

32
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refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and
places in the contemporary world.

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liquidity

33
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The forces (the liquid ones) made political boundaries more permeable to the flow of people and
things (Cartier, 2001). This brings us to what Ritzer (2015) regarded as the most important
characteristic of liquid: it “tends to melt whatever stands in its path (especially solids).” The clearest
example is the decline, if not death, of the nation-state.

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34
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the movement of people, things, places, and information brought by the
growing “porosity” of global limitations

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flow

35
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4 additional qualities

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  1. globaliation involves the creation of new and existing social networks and activities
  2. is reflected in the expansion and the stretching of social activities
  3. involve the intesification and acceleration
  4. do not merely occur on objective but also subjective
36
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mixture of elements from diverse culture produces strangest fusion

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hybridization

37
Q

increasing sameness of the world

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homogeneity

38
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homogeneity in nature is often linked to

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culture imperialism

39
Q

given culture influences other culture

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culture imperialism

40
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undermines the existence of global media originating from developing countries

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media imperialism

41
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the process by which Western societies are dominated by the principles of fast food restaurants. It involves the global spread of rational systems, such as efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control.

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McDonaldization

42
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Pertains to the creation of various cultural practices, new economies, and political groups because of the interaction of elements from different societies in the world.

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Heterogeneity

43
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heterogeneity in culture is associated with

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cultural hybridization

44
Q

as global forces interact with local factors or a specific geographic area, the “glocal” is being produced.

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glocalization

45
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4 FORMS OF GLOBALIZATION

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PITO
Embodied People
Disembodied Ideas
Objectified Things
Institutional Organization

46
Q

define and explain globalization on different kinds as it occur on multiple and intersecting dimensions of integration that he calls “scapes”

for him there are multiple globalization

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arjun apparudai

47
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refers to the global movement of people

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ethnoscape

48
Q

about the flow of culture

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mediascape

49
Q

refers to the circulation of mechanical goods and software

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technoscape

50
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denotes the global circulation of money

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financescape

51
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the realm where political ideas move around

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ideoscape

52
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People who come from a particular nation, or whose ancestors came from it, but who now live in many different parts of the world

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diaspora

53
Q

global integration of economic
markets is beneficial for evervone

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globalism

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