Globalisation in the digital and social world

Question 1

What did Giddens, Dunier and Applebaun say about globalisation ?

Answer 1

• If human history was a 24 hour day, not much would happen in the first 23 hours
• More change in society would happen in the last 30 seconds
• This shows that globalisation has accelerated the speed that change is happening

Question 2

Globalisation

Answer 2

• Globalisation is the increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of societies and cultures.
• This is driven by factors such as trade, tech and migration.

Question 3

Wiseman

Answer 3

• The term globalisation can be misused and misunderstood
• Needs to be carefully considered when there is an attempt to use and define the term in sociology

Question 4

Problems with defining globalisation:

Answer 4

• There are some positive opinions about the effect of globalisation but there are also negative ones.
• This means that attempting to define globalisation is difficult because a lot of the views contain bias
• For example, Cochrane and Pain believe that globalisation is happening at the same rate everywhere
• Whereas Giddens only looks into a specific area of increased interconnections