Globalisation Definitions

Question 1

Globalisation definition

Answer 1

• different societies take ideas/views from each other, interconnection/integration of societies
• economic, environmental, social & political influenced by other societies

Question 2

How does Anthony Giddens (1990) define globalisation?

Answer 2

• intensification of world-wide social relations
• links distant localities = local happenings shaped by events occurring miles away (BLM/George Floyd)
• interactions between local/global = world-wide relations becoming intense

Question 3

How does Waters (2001) define globalisation?

Answer 3

• social process in which constraints of geography on economic, political, social/cultural arrangements recede

Question 4

How does Holton (2005) define globalisation?

Answer 4

• interconnection/intensified movement of goods, money, technology, info, people, ideas/cultural practice across political/cultural boundaries

Question 5

How does Heid et al (1999) define globalisation?

Answer 5

• stretching of activities across borders, activities in one part of world has effect for others in distant regions
• interconnection diff parts of world
• greater geographical mobility

Question 6

Globalisation

Answer 6

• process in which the world becoming increasingly interconnected due to massive increase in trade/cultural exchange