Intro: Quiz fri

Question 1

What is contemporary world?

Answer 1

About present world, global society, practical lessons about reality

Question 2

What are the reasons to study contemporary world?

Answer 2

1. Help ourselves prepare for future
2. Cultural Awareness
3. To understand people
4. Knowledge is power
5. Technological advancement
6. To know the realities of outside world
7. To improve ourselves

Question 3

Aspects of contemporary world

Answer 3

1. Economic
2. Cultural
3. Social
4. Political

Question 4

Economic aspect of contemporary world

Answer 4

Resources = important

Question 5

Most important resources in economic

Answer 5

Money

Question 6

pros and cons of money

Answer 6

Pros
More money=flexibility

Cons
Difficult to earn
Professional/unprofessional difficulties in earning money

Question 7

Cultural aspect

Answer 7

Source of life, sense of why, existence (religion), self/social awareness, sense of emptiness

Question 8

Social aspect

Answer 8

Acceptance to society, norms of society dictates life, too much conformity is not okay

Question 9

Political aspect

Answer 9

Affect economic and social aspect of life

Issues include:
Social inequality
Gap between poor and rich

Question 10

Globalization

Answer 10

• Process characterized by changes/transformation in the society
• Multidimensional
• the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across worldtime and across world-space (Steger, 2003)

Question 11

different aspects of our life (multidimensional)

Answer 11

C,E,S,C,M

Question 12

Source/causes of transformation

Answer 12

Technological advancement

Question 13

Causes of technological advancement

Answer 13

Competition of multinational companies

Question 14

Domination in market =

Answer 14

Profit

Question 15

Globality

Answer 15

signify a social condition characterized by the existence of global economic, political, cultural, and environmental interconnections and flows that make many of the currently existing borders and boundaries irrelevant.

Question 16

Planetarity

Answer 16

a new social formation brought about by the successful colonization of our system
Space race by billionaires

Question 17

Expansion

Answer 17

refers to both creation of new social networks and multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries
Lazada and shopee

Question 18

Intensification

Answer 18

refers to the expansion, stretching, and acceleration of these networks(Steger, 2003)

Question 19

Essential Qualities of GLOBALIZATION

Answer 19

1. Creation of new and the multiplication of existing social networks and activities that increasingly overcome traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries (routes from different countries)
2. Expansion and the stretching of social relations, activities, and interdependence
   (mcdo all around the world)
3. Intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities
4. Creation, expansion, and intensification of social interconnections and interdependencies do not occur merely on an objective, material level

Question 20

Globalization other definition

Answer 20

1. Intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice -versa (Giddens, A)
2. It compresses the time and space aspects of social relations (Mittelman, J.
3. Immense enlargement of world communication, as well as of the horizon of a world market, both of which seem far more tangible and immediate than in earlier stages of modernity.
4. Refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole (Robertson, R.)

Question 21

Globalization (int trade, technology, interaction, integ)

Answer 21

is a 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 (Carnegie Endowment as cited by Boudreaux, 2008

Question 22

Integration

Answer 22

the act or process of uniting different thing (Merriam Webster, 2018)
implies the adoption of policies by separate countries as if they were a single political unit (Streeten, 2018).
In Politics Economy Culture Military Entertainment Sports

Question 23

Interaction

Answer 23

mutual or reciprocal action or influence (Merriam Webster, 2018)
individuals, states, organizations companies and other actors in international community establish relationships and networks and continue to influence each other

Question 24

Technology

Answer 24

the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, whether in industry or everyday lives.

Question 25

International trade

Answer 25

it is the exchange of goods and services across international borders or territories

Question 26

International trade

Answer 26

it is the exchange of goods and services across international borders or territories

Question 27

Specialization

Answer 27

is when a nation or individual concentrates its productive efforts on producing a limited variety of goods. It oftentimes has to forgo producing other goods and relies on obtaining those other goods through trade (Wells, 2018)

Question 28

Cooperation

Answer 28

Cooperation
the voluntary arrangement in which two or more entities engage in a mutually beneficial exchange instead of competing.
Cooperation
can happen where resources adequate for both parties exist or are created by their interaction(www.businessdictionary.com).

Question 29

Competition

Answer 29

Competition
the rivalry in which every seller tries to get what other sellers are seeking at the same time: sales, profit, and market share by offering the best practicable combination of price, quality, and service.

Question 30

Five Scapes (Arjun Appadurai)

Answer 30

1. Ethnoscapes
2. Technoscapes,
3. Ideoscapes,
4. Financescapes, and
5. Mediascapes.

Question 31

Theories of Space, Place and Globalization

Answer 31

1. Time-space distanciation
   the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa’ – social relations are ‘lifted out’ from local contexts of interaction and restructured across time and space
2. Time-space compression
   is the process whereby time is reorganized in such a way as to reduce the constraints of space, and vice-versa (David Harvey, 1990)

Question 32

Theories of Transnationality and Transnationalism

Answer 32

1. Transnationality
   refers to the rise of new communities and the formation of new social identities and relations that cannot be defined through the traditional reference point of nationstates

2.Transnationalism
encompassing a wide variety of transformative processes, practices and developments that take place simultaneously at a local and global level.
refer to the activities of immigrants to forge and sustain multistranded social relations that link their societies of origin and settlement as a single unified field of social action

3.Transnational processes and practices - are the multiple ties and interactions – economic, political, social and cultural – that link people, communities and institutions across the borders of nation-states

Question 33

Theories of Global Culture (G,H,H, H, M, G)

Answer 33

Global consciousness
an awareness of the world as a single place

Homogenization theories
see a global cultural convergence and would tend to highlight the rise of world beat, world cuisines, world tourism, uniform consumption patterns and cosmopolitanism

Heterogeneity approaches
see continued cultural difference and highlight local cultural autonomy, cultural resistance to homogenization, cultural clashes and polarization, and distinct subjective experiences of globalization
Hybridization
stresses new and constantly evolving cultural forms and identities produced by manifold transnational processes and the fusion of distinct cultural processes
McDonaldization
refers to sociocultural processes by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant came to dominate more and more sectors of US and later world society

Globalization of nothing
culturally meaningful institutions, sites and practices locally controlled and rich in indigenous content – ‘something’ – are being replaced by (corporate driven) uniform social forms devoid of distinctive substance – ‘nothing’.