INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF GLOBALIZATION

Question 1

It is the process in which people, ideas and goods spread
throughout the world, urging more interaction and integration between the
world’s cultures, governments and economies.

Answer 1

Globalization

Question 2

People are engaged in buying and selling from other places in far-away lands
like the famed __________

Answer 2

Silk Road

Question 3

It is across Central Asia that connected China and Europe
during the Middle Age for thousands of years and they also invested in
enterprises in other countries for centuries.

Answer 3

Silk Road

Question 4

Silk Road connected ________ and _________

Answer 4

China and Europe

Question 5

According to him, “Globalization is the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and world-space.”

Answer 5

Manfred Steger

Question 6

It is the creation of new social networks and the increasing of existing
connection.

Answer 6

Expansion

Question 7

It is the stretching and acceleration of social networks.

Answer 7

Intensification

Question 8

It is the interactions between two or more people, groups, or
organizations. They are composed of social, physical, and verbal interactions
that create a climate for the exchange of feelings and ideas.

Answer 8

social relations

Question 9

In the contemporary era, people begin to feel that the world
has become smaller and distance has collapsed from thousand miles to just a
click away.

Answer 9

time and space

Question 10

In this phase of globalization, contacts among hunters and gatherers were geographically limited.

Answer 10

The Prehistoric Period (10000 BCE-3500 BCE)

Question 11

In this period due to absence of advanced forms
of technology, globalization was severely limited.

Answer 11

The Prehistoric Period (10000 BCE-3500 BCE)

Question 12

In this period the invention of writing and the wheel were great social and
technological boosts that moved globalization to a new level.

Answer 12

The Pre-modern Period (3500 BCE- 1500 CE)

Question 13

The invention of
wheel in addition to roads made the transportation of people and goods more
efficient while writing facilitated the spread of ideas and inventions.

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The Pre-modern Period (3500 BCE- 1500 CE)

Question 14

It is the period between the Enlightenment and the Renaissance.

Answer 14

The Early Modern Period (1500-1750)

Question 15

During this
period, European Enlightenment project tried to achieve a universal form of
morality and law.

Answer 15

The Early Modern Period (1500-1750)

Question 16

This with the emergence of European metropolitan centers
and unlimited material accumulation which led to the capitalist world system
helped to strengthen globalization.

Answer 16

The Early Modern Period (1500-1750)

Question 17

Innovations in transportation and communication technology, population
explosion, and increase in migration led to more cultural exchanges and
transformation in traditional social patterns.

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The Modern Period (1750-1970)

Question 18

Process of industrialization also
accelerated.

Answer 18

The Modern Period (1750-1970)

Question 19

The creation, expansion, and acceleration of interdependencies around the
world occurred in a dramatic way and it was a kind of leap in the history of
globalization.

Answer 19

The Contemporary Period (from 1970 to present)

Question 20

This refers to the extensive development of economic relations across the
globe as a result of technology and the enormous flow of capital that has
stimulated trade in both sources and goods.

Answer 20

Economic Dimension

Question 21

Major players in the global economic order:

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⬗ Huge international corporations
⬗ International Economic Institutions

Question 22

(General Motors, Walmart, Mitsubishi)

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⬗ Huge international corporations

Question 23

(IMF, World Trade Organization, World Bank)

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⬗ International Economic Institutions

Question 24

This refers to an enlargement and strengthening of political interrelations
across the globe.

Answer 24

Political Dimension

Question 25

Political Issues that Surface in this Dimension:

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⬗ The principle of state sovereignty
⬗ Increasing impact of various intergovernmental organization
⬗ Future shapes of regional and global governance

Question 26

This refers to the increase in the amount of cultural flows across the globe.
Cultural interconnections are at the foundations of contemporary globalization.

Answer 26

Cultural Dimension

Question 27

It often results hybridization (a constructive interaction process
between global and local characteristics which is often visible in food, music,
dance, film, fashion, and language).

Answer 27

Cultural diversity

Question 28

Media empires generated and directed the extensive flow of culture. Examples
of these are Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Disney.

Answer 28

Cultural Dimension

Question 29

It is a personal or institutionalized set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices
relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality
or deity.

Answer 29

Religion

Question 30

It is the most important defining element of any civilization as
contrasted with race, language, or way of life.

Answer 30

Religion

Question 31

It is also portrayed as
a defining element in future conflicts.

Answer 31

Religion

Question 32

It is a system of widely shared ideas, beliefs, norms and values among
a group of people.

Answer 32

Ideology

Question 33

It is often used to legitimize certain political interests or to
defend dominant power structures.

Answer 33

Ideology

Question 34

It connects human actions with
some generalized claims.

Answer 34

Ideology

Question 35

5 dimensions of globalization

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Economic Dimension
Political Dimension
Cultural Dimension
Religious Dimension
Ideological Dimension

Question 36

He stated the scapes of globalization. “Globalization occur on multiple and intersecting dimensions of integration”

Answer 36

Arjun Appadurai

Question 37

It represent the movement of people around the world.

Answer 37

Ethnoscape

Question 38

Examples of this include refugees and tourists

Answer 38

ethnoscape

Question 39

people who have seek asylum from danger in their
homelands/people moving to seek jobs elsewhere

Answer 39

refugees

Question 40

It refers to the ways that technologies help speed up cross-border movements.

Answer 40

Technoscape

Question 41

Examples of this include handheld devices and internet

Answer 41

Technoscape

Question 42

It represent the movement of money across borders.

Answer 42

Financescapes

Question 43

Examples of this include stock exchange and credit cards

Answer 43

Financescapes

Question 44

The media has an increasingly global reach.

Answer 44

mediascapes

Question 45

Examples of this include blogging and BBC

Answer 45

mediascapes

Question 46

It refers to the ideas, symbols and narratives that have spread
around the globe.

Answer 46

Ideoscapes

Question 47

one of the most powerful ideologies in
the world.

Answer 47

liberal democracy

Question 48

__________is a social process of intensifying global interdependence while
__________is an ideology that gives meaning to globalization.

Answer 48

globalization
globalism

Question 49

It represents the many processes that allow for the expansion and
intensification of global connections.

Answer 49

globalization

Question 50

It is a widespread belief among
powerful people that the global integration of economic markets is beneficial for
everyone since it spreads freedom and democracy across the world.

Answer 50

globalism

Question 51

(a constructive interaction process
between global and local characteristics which is often visible in food, music,
dance, film, fashion, and language)

Answer 51

hybridization