CONTEMPO

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is the process in which people, ideas and goods spread throughout the world, spurring more interaction and integration between the world cultures, governments and economies.

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Globalization

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is a process of interaction and integration among the people,
companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world.

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Globalization

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There were similarities in features of those prevailing wave of globalization before the outbreak of the First World War in ___ to the current wave.

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1914

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is the process of integration of economies across the world through cross-border flow of factors product and information.

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Globalization

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According to the____ globalization is the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross border transactions in goods and
services and of international capital flows and also through the more rapid and wide diffusion of technology.

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(IMF) International monetary fund

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is an expansion, and intensification of social relations and
consciousness across world time and world space. It is about growing worldwide connectivity according to Steger.

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Globalization

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considered a multi-dimensional process involving
economic, political, technological, cultural, religious and ecological dimensions. It suggests a dynamic process of change that results in either positive or negative development.

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Globalization

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It involves both the creation of new social networks and the multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional, political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries.

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Globalization

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is reflected in the expansion and the stretching of social relations, activities, and connections.

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Globalization

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involves the intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities.

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Globalization

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processes do not occur merely or an objective, material level but they also involve the subjective plane of human consciousness. Without erasing local and national
attachments, the compression of the world into a single place has increasingly made global the frame of reference for human thought and action.

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Globalization

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Globalization involves both the macro-structures of a global community and the micro-structures of global personhood. It extends deep into the core of the self and its dispositions, facilitating the creation of multiple individual and collective identities nurtured by the intensifying relations between the personal and the global. They differ from each other by acceleration in the speed of social exchanges and widening of geographical scopes

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Globalization

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In this earliest phase of globalization, contacts among hunters and gatherers – who were spread around the world – were geographically limited. In this period due to absence of
advanced forms of technology, globalization was severely limited.

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The Prehistoric Period (10000 BCE-3500 BCE)

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In this period the invention of writing and the wheel were great social and technological boosts that moved globalization to a new level. The invention of wheel in addition to roads made the transportation of people and goods more efficient. On the other hand writing facilitated the spread of ideas and inventions.

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The Pre-modern Period (3500 BCE- 1500 CE)

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It is the period between the Enlightenment and the Renaissance. In this period, European Enlightenment project tried to achieve a universal form of morality and law. This
with the emergence of European metropolitan centers and unlimited material accumulation which led to the capitalist world system helped to strengthen globalization.

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The Early Modern Period (1500-1750)

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Innovations in transportation and communication technology, population explosion, and increase in migration led to more cultural exchanges and transformation in traditional
social patterns. Process of industrialization also accelerated.

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The Modern Period (1750-1970)

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The creation, expansion, and acceleration of worldwide interdependencies occurred in a dramatic way and it was a kind of leap in the history of globalization.

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The Contemporary Period (from 1970 to present)

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There are six dimensions in globalization. These include:

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economic dimension, political dimension, technological dimension, cultural dimension, religious dimension and ecological dimensions.

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This refers to the extensive development of economic relations across the globe as a result of technology and the enormous flow of capital that has stimulated trade in both sources and goods.

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Economic Dimension

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Major players in the current century’s global economic order…

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(General Motors, Walmart, Mitsubishi)

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International Economic Institutions

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(IMF, World Bank, The World Trade Organization)

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The result of these powerful forces resulted in the wide gap between the rich and the
poor countries.

Major Sources of Economic Growth across Countries

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1. Property rights
2. Regulatory institutions
3. Institutions for macro-economics
4. Stabilization
5. Institutions for social influence
6. Institutions for conflict management

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This refers to an enlargement and strengthening of political interrelations across the globe

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Political Dimension

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Political Issues that Surface in this Dimension

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1. The principle of state sovereignty
2. Increasing impact of various intergovernmental organization
3. Future shapes of regional and global governance

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rendered almost powerless any political efforts to introduce
restrictive policies affecting individual states, with the results that the world in many ways turned into a borderless world. Governments often seek to restrict the migration of peoples,
especially those coming from the poor countries in the global South.

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globalization

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This refers to the increase in the amount of cultural flows across the globe. Cultural interconnections are at the foundations of contemporary globalization

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Cultural Dimension

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which are the dominant cultural characteristics of
our age and the drive for economic success stimulated by the internet and other technological devices circulate much more easily than they did in earlier periods. In the dissemination of
popular culture, transactional media corporations play a major role which brought a sharp rise in homogenized popular culture that is manifested in the dominance of fast-food restaurant on more aspects of life throughout the world.

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Individualism and consumerism

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often results hybridization

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Cultural diversity

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often results hybridization- a constructive interaction process
between global and local characteristics which is often visible in food, music, dance, film, fashion, and language. As a result, there is a scarcely any society in the world that expresses itself in its own self-contained and authentic culture

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Cultural diversity

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Media empires generated and directed the extensive flow of culture.

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Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Disney.

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plays an important role in this cultural flow by featuring various celebrities in the television aside from transforming
newscast into entertainment shows.

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Advertisement

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is a personal or institutionalized set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity. It is the most important defining element of any civilization as contrasted with race, language, or way of life. As such, it is also portrayed as a defining element in future conflicts. Whether the root cause of a particular conflict or merely a vehicle for the mobilization of nationalist or ethnic passions, religion is certainly central to much of the strife currently taking place around the globe

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Religion/Religious Dimension

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is a religious response to the materialist assault by the ungodly West in the rest of the world. Coming out of what they consider a pure form of Islam, its disciples seek to destroy all those alien influences that have been imposed on Muslim people.

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Jihadist globalism

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Roman Catholic Teaching of Globalization
There are eight (8) principles that summarize the Roman Catholic Teachings.

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1. Commitment to universal human rights
2. Commitment to the social nature of the human person
3. Commitment to the common good
4. Solidarity (The principle of Solidarity affirms that membership in the human
   family means that all bear responsibility for one another.)
5. Preferential option of the poor (In the Theology of the Incarnation- Christ
   God became poor for us so as to enrich us by his poverty. The poor are susceptible
   to the effects of environmental irresponsibility because they live in countries where
   cheap building materials and cheap labor are readily available. They regularly work
   in farming, fishing, and forestry, areas which suffer environmental damage).
6. Subsidiary (The Catholic Church teaches that decisions should be made at
   the lowest level in order to achieve the common good.
7. Justice
8. Integral Humanism- is concerned with whole person Justice is divided in

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Integral Humanism- is concerned with whole person Justice is divided in three (3) categories:

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1. Commutative justice
   This aims at fulfilling the terms of contracts and other
   promises on both personal and social level.
2. Distributive justice
   This ensures a basic equity in how both the burden and the
   goods of society are distributed and that ensures that every person
   enjoys a basically equal moral and legal standing apart from
   differences in wealth, privilege, talent and achievements
3. Social justice
   This refers to the creation of the conditions in which the
   first two categories of justice can be realized and the common good identified and defended.

Question 36

______is a system of widely shared ideas, beliefs, norms and values among a
group of people.
_____connects human actions with some generalized claims

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Ideology

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Ideology is a system of widely shared ideas, beliefs, norms and values among a group of people. It is often used to legitimize certain political interests or to defend dominant
power structures. Ideology connects human actions with some generalized claims. Globalization is a social process of intensifying global interdependence while globalism is an ideology that gives the concept of neo-liberal values and meanings to globalization.

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Ideological Dimensions

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Major Ideological Claims of Advocates of Globalism

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1. Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets. The problem with this claim is that liberalization and integration of markets happen through political project of engineering free markets by interference of centralized state power, and it is in contrast to the neoliberal ideal of limited role of governments.
2. Globalization is inevitable and irreversible.
   Globalists believe that spread of market forces driven by technological innovations is inevitable in globalization. Neoliberals use this claim to convince people to adopt the natural discipline of the market if they want to prosper, which implies the elimination of government controls over the market.
3. Nobody is in charge of globalization.
   This claim seeks to depoliticize the public debate on globalization and neutralizing anti -globalist movements.
4. Globalization benefits everyone.
   Globalists talk about the benefits of market liberalization such as rising global living standards, economic efficiency, individual freedom, and technological progress. But the reality is that the opportunities of globalization are spread unequally and power and wealth are concentrated among a specific group of people,
   regions and corporations.
5. Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world.

Question 39

explanation of globalization is ideological because it is politically motivated and contributes to the construction of particular meanings of globalization which stabilize existing power relations. Globalism tries to create collective meaning and shape people’s identities.

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neoliberal