CONTEMPORARY WORLD Flashcards
refers to a period of time when there is a prevailing sense of the interconnectedness of all human beings, of a common fate for the human species and of a threat to its life on this Earth.(ALBROW 2012)
GLOBAL AGE
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.
GLOBALIZATION
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.
GLOBALIZATION
FLOBALIZATION IS:
- About liberalization and global integration of market
- Inevitable and irreversible
- Nobody is in charge of it
- Benefits everyone in the long run
- Furthers spread of democracy in the world
- Requires global war on terror
processes that interconnect individuals and social groups across specific geo-political borders.
TRANSITIONAL
rise of new social identities and relations that cannot be defined as nation-states.
TRANSITIONALITY
omnipresence of the process of globalization.
GLOBAITY
Signifies social condition.
GLOBAITY
METAPHORS
- SOLIDITY
- FLOWS
- LIQUIDITY
- HEAVY
- LIGHT
people, things, information and places ”harden” over time and therefore have limited mobility
SOLIDITY
movement of people, things, information, and places due, in part, to the increasing porosity of global barriers.
FLOWS
FROM “SOLID” TO “LIQUID”
FLOWS
increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the global age.
LIQUIDITY
difficult to move
HEAVY
easier to move
LIGHT
is not a single concept that can be defined and encompassed within a set time frame, nor is a process that can be defined clearly with a beginning and an end
GLOBALIZATION
involves economic integration, the transfer of policies across borders, the transmission of knowledge, cultural stability; the reproduction, relation, and discourses of power; it is a global process, a concept, a revolution, and an establishment of the global market free from sociopolitical control
GLOBALIZATION
It is a concept that has been defined variously over the years with some connotations referring to progress, development and stability, integration and cooperation, and others referring to regression, colonialism, and destabilization
GLOBALIZATION
An individual’s political ideology, geographic location social status, cultural background and ethnic and religious affiliation provide the background that determines how globalization is interpreted in 1995, _________, President of the Third World Network in Malaysia, referred to globalization as colonization Concurrently Swedish journalist Thomas Larsson, in his book The Race to the Top The Real Story of Globalization (2001)
MARTIN KHOR
process that encompasses the causes, course, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities
GLOBALIZATION
process which generates flows and connections not simply across nation-states and national territorial boundaries but between global regions, continents and civilizations.
GLOBALIZATION
The best scholarly description of globalization is provided by _____________ who describes the process as “the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and across world-space.”
MANFRED STEGER
According to ___________. Expansion refers to both the creation of new social networks and multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographic boundaries.
MANFRED STEGER
Steger posits that his definitions of globalization must be differentiated with an ideology he calls _____
GLOBALISM
