CONTEMP WORLD QUIZ 1 Flashcards
The term ‘globalization’ can be traced back to the early ___
1960s
globaliation surfaced
as the buzzword of the
Roaring Nineties
‘Globalization’ has been variously used in both popular and academic
literature to describe a
cfaps
condition, force, age, process, system
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
Manfred Steger
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
globality
as a social processes that
are changing our current
social condition based on
the modern system of
independent nation-states
globaliation
social connections diagram divided into 3
tranplanetory, space, supraterritoriality
o a set of social processes that appear to
transform our present social condition of weakening nationality into one of
globality
globaliation
Affirmations of Globalization Implies three Assertions
- we are slowly leaving behind the condition of modern nationality
- we are moving towards the new condition of postmodern
globality; - we have not yet reached it
a concept referring to people’s growing
consciousness of belonging to a global community.
global imaginary
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
uneven
3 grps of critics
mrs
rejectionist
sceptics
modifier
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
rejectionist
person in rejectionist
susan strange 1996
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”
susan strange from rejectionist
emphasie the limited nature of current globaliing processes, emphasiing that the world in not nearly as integrated as many globaaliation proponents believe
sceptics
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
hirst and thompson (2009) from sceptics
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.
hirst and thompson
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
modifier
post war international economy in the late 1990s appeared to be even less integrated
glipin 2000
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
wallerstein 1990
___ out of ___ definitions of globaliation constitutes to economic dimension
67 out of 114
focus more on the interaction between dominant class interest and cultural transnational practices.
barry gills
highlights the
importance of culture-ideology of global consumerism
leslie sklair
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
anthony giddens, former director of london school of economics
‘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
fredric jameson
‘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
david held
Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and
the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole
roland robertson
Globalization compresses the time and space aspects of social relations.’
james mittelman
- global ‘network society’ required a technological revolution
manuel castells
refers to barriers that prevent or make
difficult the movement of things.
solidity
refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and
places in the contemporary world.
liquidity
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.
the movement of people, things, places, and information brought by the
growing “porosity” of global limitations
flow
4 additional qualities
- globaliation involves the creation of new and existing social networks and activities
- is reflected in the expansion and the stretching of social activities
- involve the intesification and acceleration
- do not merely occur on objective but also subjective
mixture of elements from diverse culture produces strangest fusion
hybridization
increasing sameness of the world
homogeneity
homogeneity in nature is often linked to
culture imperialism
given culture influences other culture
culture imperialism
undermines the existence of global media originating from developing countries
media imperialism
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.
McDonaldization
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.
Heterogeneity
heterogeneity in culture is associated with
cultural hybridization
as global forces interact with local factors or a specific geographic area, the “glocal” is being produced.
glocalization
4 FORMS OF GLOBALIZATION
PITO
Embodied People
Disembodied Ideas
Objectified Things
Institutional Organization
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
arjun apparudai
refers to the global movement of people
ethnoscape
about the flow of culture
mediascape
refers to the circulation of mechanical goods and software
technoscape
denotes the global circulation of money
financescape
the realm where political ideas move around
ideoscape
People who come from a particular nation, or whose ancestors came from it, but who now live in many different parts of the world
diaspora
global integration of economic
markets is beneficial for evervone
globalism
