Introduction - reading Flashcards
1
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what is the title of the book
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Globalization
A Very Short Introduction
2
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who is the author
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Manfred B. Steger
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globalization is a __ __ that refers to sometimes contradictory social processes
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contested concept
4
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Saudi-born Al Qaeda leader
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Osama bin Laden
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Osama bin Laden is the leader of what group
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Al Qaeda
6
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when was Osama bin Laden’s videotaped statement condemning the activities of international infidels been broadcast
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October 7
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estimated time of experts about when the recording was made
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< 2 weeks before it was broadcast
8
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forces the United States have bombing campaign against
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Afghanistan
- Taliban
- Al Qaeda
9
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Al Qaeda
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The Base
10
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must have existed in order for bin Laden’s message to be heard and seen by billions of TV viewers around the world
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complex chain of global interdependencies
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where is the videotape from
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- secluded mountains of eastern Afghanistan to
- capital city of Kabul
12
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where and how was the videotape dropped off
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- courier
- Al-Jazeera local office
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Al-Jazeera
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Qatar-based television company
14
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when was Al-Jazeera launched
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five years earlier
15
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who placed powerful satellites to orbit
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- European rockets
- American space shuttles
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how did the Al-Jazeera’s market share increase
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dramatic reduction in price and size of satellite dishes
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when did the chief executives of Al-Jazeera sign a lucrative cooperation agreement with CNN
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2001
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to whom did the chief executives of Al-Jazeera sign a lucrative cooperation agreement with
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CNN
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who owns CNN
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AOL-Time-Warner
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Al-Jazeera rent equipment to prominent news providers as
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- Reuters
- ABC
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Al-Jazeera sell satellite time to
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- Associated Press
- BBC
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other American network partner of Al-Jazeera
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CNBC
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made possible the instant broadcast of bin Laden’s speech to a global audience
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- globl interdependencies
- interconnections
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process of __ and __ that globalization scholars called hybiridization
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- fragmentation
- cross-fertilization
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mixing of different cultural forms and styles facilitated by global economic and cultural exchanges
hybridization
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what did Osama bin Laden use that shows globalization
1. mottled combat dress
2. AK-47 Kalashnikov
3. Timex product
4. microphone
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by mid-1990s, how many Kalashnikovs are manufactured in Russia
> 70 million
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old name of Timex Corporation
Waterbury Clock Company
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where was Waterbury Clock Company founded
- 1850s
- Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley
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earliest appearance of the term globalization
1960s
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often repeated truism regarding globalizaiton
globalization (process) leads to more globalization (condition)
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term used to signify a social condition characterized by the existence of global economic, political, cultural, and environmental ineronnections and flow
globality
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new social formation brought about by the successful colonization of our solar system
planetarity
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different social manifestations of globality
1. values of individualism and competition
2. economic system of private property
3. embody more communal and cooperative social arrangements
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what is globalization at its core
shifting force of human contact
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Three important pieces of information 'globalization is happening'
1. slowly living behind the condition of modernity
2. moving toward new condition of postmodern globality
3. we have not yet reached it
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conceptualization of globlization is an __ __
ongoing process
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one defining characteristic of the process of globalization
movement towards greater interdependence and integration
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why does globalization remain a contested concept
there exists no scholarly consensus on what kinds of social processes constitute its essence
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Four distinct qualities of globalization
1. creation and multiplication
2. expansion and stretching
3. intensification and acceleration
4. creation, expansion, and intesification of social interconnections and interdependencies do not occur merely on an objective, material level
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globalization creates and multiplies what
creates new and multiplies existing social networks and activities that increasingly overcome traditional
- political,
- economic,
- cultural, and
- geographical boundaries
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"Globalization can thus be defines as the intensification of worlwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occuring many miles away and vise versa."
Anthony Giddens, Director of London School of Economics
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"Concept of globalization reflects sense of an immese 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."
Fredric Jameson, Professor of Literature at Duke University
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"Globalization may be thought of as a process (or set or processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions - assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact - generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power."
David Held, Professor of Political Science at London School of Economics
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how is globalization assessed in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions
- extensity
- intensity
- velocity
- impact
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"Globalization as a concept refers to both the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole."
Roland Robertson, Professor of Sociology at University of Pittsburgh
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"Globalization compressses the time and space aspecs of social relations."
James Mittelman, Professor of International Relations at American University
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Globalization expans and stretch what?
- social relations
- activities
- interdependencies
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when did Osama bin Laden's organization rapidly expand
late 1990s
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example of groups that expanded across the globe due to globalization
1. non-governmental organizations
2. commercial enterprises
3. social clubs
4. countless regional and global institutions and associations
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globalization intensifies and accelerates what
social exchanges and activities
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relays distant information in mere seconds
internet
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provide consumers with real-time pictures of remote events
satellites
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pointed out that the current rise of the global network society would not have been possible without a technological revolution
Manuel Castells, Spanish sociologist
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globalization's creation, expansion, and intensification of social interconnectons and interdependencies do not occur merely on an __ __ __
objective, material level
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what did Roland Robertson note in his definition of globalization processes
involve the subjective plane of human consciousness
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What is globalization according to Manfred B. Steger
"Globalization refers to a multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, stretch, and intensify worldwide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant."
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what does it mean when they say globalization is an uneven process
people living in various parts of the world are affected very differently by this gigantic transformation of social structures and cultural zones
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what do scholars disagree about globalization
- scale
- causation
- chronology
- impact
- trajectories
- policy outcomes
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question over the scale of globalization
whether it is singular or differentiated terms
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helps to illustrate the nature of the academic controversy over the various dimensions of globalization
ancient Buddhist parable of blind scholars and encounter with elephant
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aspects of globalization
- economic
- political
- cultural
- ideological
- environmental processes
- military
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notion that globalization may be a __ __ and __ __
- geographically limited
- uneven process
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the global south do not enjoy equal access to thickening global networks and infrastructures
globalization is associated with inequality
