Globalization

Question 1

globalisation

Answer 1

expansion, intensification and acceleration of social relations and consciousness across world time and space

Question 2

measuring economic globalisation

Answer 2

[1] actual economic flows
[2] restrictions on trade and capital

Question 3

measuring political globalisation

Answer 3

[1] counting embassies
[2] counting international organisations of which country is a member
[3] counting UN peace missions country participated in

Question 4

measuring social globalisation

Answer 4

[1] personal contacts
[2] information flows
[3] cultural proximity

Question 5

homogenisation

Answer 5

certain dominant cultures threaten to overwhelm more vulnerable ones

Question 6

glocalisation

Answer 6

simultaneous occurrence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies

Question 7

hybridisation

Answer 7

ways in which forms of social life become diversified as they separate from old practices