Contemporary World First Lesson

Question 1

In the groups of “globaloneys” this group disputes the usefulness of globalization as a sufficiently precise analytical concept.

Answer 1

Rejectionists

Question 2

This is one of the
most popular subjects of contemporary
academic research.

Answer 2

Globalization

Question 3

It is the stretching of economic, political, and social relationships in space and time.

Answer 3

Globalization

Question 4

When did the interest for global study increase?

Answer 4

1960s and 1970s

Question 5

Academic literature describes it as a process, a
condition, a system, a force, and an age.

Answer 5

Globalization

Question 6

Proponents of this view contend that existing accounts of globalization are incorrect,
imprecise, or exaggerated.

Answer 6

Globaloneys

Question 7

What category of globaloney does the argument below fall into?
Susan Strange (1996) considers
globalization as a vacuous term,
suggesting that it has been used
in academic discourse to refer
to ‘anything from internet to a
hamburger.’

Answer 7

Rejectionists

Question 7

This description of globalization as ‘globaloney’ falls into three categories.

Answer 7

1. Rejectionists
2. Sceptics
3. Modifiers

Question 7

Members of this group of baloneys point to the limited nature of the globalizing processes,
emphasizing that the world is not nearly as integrated as many globalization
proponents claim;

Answer 7

Sceptics

Question 8

This group of critics disputes
the novelty of the process while acknowledging the existence of moderate globalizing
tendencies.

Answer 8

Modifiers

Question 8

What category of globaloney does the argument below fall into?
Globalization is an analytically
impoverished concept (the
same as nationalism) because of
its complexity and ambiguity.
This characteristic often leads
to the legitimation of some
claims while delegitimizing the
others (Calhoun, 1993)

Answer 8

Rejectionists

Question 8

They emphasize the limited
nature of current globalizing
process. Which group/category of globaleys use this argument?

Answer 8

Sceptics.

Question 9

What are the 3 concepts of globalization?

Answer 9

Most Popular subject during the
60s and 70s

Various scholars introduced
several approaches in
understanding the notion of
globalization.

While Scholar motivated to
formulate a universal concept of
globalization this led to certain
divide on the lenses and suits of
studying globalization

Question 9

It is the expansion and intensification of
social relations and consciousness
across world time and across world
space.

Answer 9

Globalization

Question 9

What are the 4 conflicting interpretations of globalization

Answer 9

1.Globalization as Globaloney

2. Globalization as Economic Process
3. Globalization as Political Process
4. Globalization as Cultural Process

Question 9

This group points the limited nature of globalizing process, according to them
the world is not fully integrated as many globalization proponents claim

Answer 9

Sceptics

Question 10

What group of globaloneys uses the argument “Hirst, Thompson and Bromley
(2009) asserted that the world
is not truly a global economic
phenomenon but rather
centered on Europe, Easter
Asia and North America.
Majority of economic activity
around the world remains
primarily national in origin and
scope.”

Answer 10

Sceptics

Question 11

What are the weakness point of improvement of Rejectionists?

Answer 11

Challenge the academic
community to provide additional
examples of how the term
globalization obscures more than it
enlightens

Complement the social scientific
enterprise of exploring
globalization as an objective
process with more interpretative
studies of the ideological project of
globalism

Question 12

This group of globaloneys critics the novelty of the globalization process while they
acknowledge the existence of moderate globalizing tendencies;

Answer 12

Modifiers

Question 13

It is an outlook that is limited to one’s immediate community.

Answer 13

Parochialism

Question 14

What are the weakness points of improvement of the Sceptics?

Answer 14

Hirst and Thompson set a
overly high standards in order
for the economy to be counted
as “fully globalized”

Their efforts to construct an
abstract model of a perfectly
globalized economy
unnecessarily polarize the
topic by pressuring the
readers to either completely
embrace or entirely reject the
concept of globalization.

Accordingly, he
assigns to culture and
ideology merely
subordinate role as ‘idea
systems” on the ‘real’
movements of the
capitalist world economy.

The most serious shortcoming of the
Hirst-Thompson Thesis lies in an
attempt to counteract neo-liberal
economic determinism with a good
of Marxist economic
determinism.

Question 15

What group of globaloneys uses the argument “Hirst and Thompson added
that without a truly global
economic system, there can be no globalization [Hirst-
Thompson Thesis].”

Answer 15

Sceptics

Question 16

What group of globaloney uses the argument “This group disputes the novelty
of the process, implying that
the label ‘globalization’ has
often been applied in a
historically imprecise manner.”

Answer 16

Modifiers

Question 17

What group of globaloneys uses the argument “Hirst-Thompson Thesis
emphasizes the “iron logic of
economic globalization.”
According to this, the iron logic
of economic globalization tends
to produce disempowering
political effects.”

Answer 17

Sceptics

Question 18

The scholars under this perspective
explore in much detail how the evolution
of international markets and corporation
led to an intensified form of global
interdependence.

Answer 18

Globalization as an economic process.

Question 19

Most of the debates about political
globalization includes the weighing of
conflicting evidence regarding the fate
of the modern state. In particular, two
questions have become the top agenda
of the proponents of this perspective:
(1) What are the political causes for
the massive flows of capital, money and technology across territorial boundaries? and
(2) Do these flows constitute a serious challenge to the power of the nation- state?

Answer 19

Globalization as a political process

Question 20

Any analytical account of globalization would be woefully inadequate without an
examination of its cultural dimensions (Steger, 2014). John Tomlinson (1999) a
sociologist, emphasized the centrality of culture to contemporary debates on
globalization.

Answer 20

Globalization as Cultural Process

Question 21

What group of globaloney uses the argument: Robert Gilpin (2000) confirms
the existence of globalizing
tendencies, but he also insists
that many important aspects of
globalization are not novel
developments.

Answer 21

Modifiers

Question 22

What group of globaloney uses the argument: Moreover, neo-Marxist scholars
and world system theorists such
as Immanuel Wallerstein
(1979) and Andre Gunder
Frank (1998) argue that the
modern capitalist economy in
which we live today has been
global since its inception five
centuries ago

Answer 22

Modifiers