LECTURE 1 Flashcards
Defined as “a very important change, if not, the “most important”. (Bauman, 2003)
GLOBALIZATION
The reality and omnipresence of globalization makes us see ourselves as part of what we refer as “_____”. (Albrow, 1996)
GLOBAL AGE
______ by browsing google and mass media for example make connections available among people, communities and countries all over the world.
INTERNET
TRUE OR FALSE: Globalization must be contained within a specific time frame, all people and all situations (Al-Rhodan, 2006).
FALSE; GLOBALIZATION CANNOT BE CONTAINED WITHIN A SPECIFIC TIME FRAME
This encompasses a multitude of processes that involve the economy, political systems and culture
GLOBALIZATION
_____ therefore are directly affected by globalization.
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Swedish journalist, ____ (2001) saw globalization as “the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer.
THOMAS LARSSON
It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit with somebody on the other side of the world
GLOBALIZATION
In the mid 1990s, ____, former president of Third World Network (TWN) in Malaysia, once regarded globalization as colonization.
MARTIN KHOR
Definitions of Globalization could be classified as either:
(1) broad and inclusive or (2) narrow and exclusive.
He stated that “globalization means the onset of the borderless world….”
OHMAE, 1992
“globalization means the onset of the borderless world….” It is an example of ___ since this definition may include a variety of issues that deal with overcoming traditional boundaries.
BROAD AND INCLUSIVE
better justified but can be limiting, in the sense that their application adhere to only particular or specific definitions.
NARROW AND EXCLUSIVE
He stated that “the characteristics of the globalization trend include the internationalizing of production, the international division of labor, new migratory movements from South to North, the new competitive environment that accelerate these processes, and the internationalizing of state… making states into agencies of the globalizing world.” (RAWOO Netherlands Development Assistance Research Council, 2000)
ROBERT COX
WHO STATES THAT “globalization is a transplanetary process or a set of processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multidirectional flows of people, objects, places and information as well as structures they encounter and create that are barriers to , or expedite those flows….”
RITZER, 2015
WHO STATES THAT “globalization is a world of things that have different speeds, axes, points or origin and termination and varied relationships to institutional structures in different regions, nations or societies.” (Chowdhury, 2006)
ARJUN APPADURAI, 1996
SOCIOLOGIST THAT STATES THAT “The literature stemming from the debate on globalization has grown in the last decade beyond any individual’s capability of extracting a workable definition of the concept. In a sense, the meaning of the concept is self-evident, in another, it is vague and obscure as its reaches are wide and constantly shifting. Perhaps, more than any other concept , globalization is the debate about it”. ( Kumar, 2003)
CESARE POPPI, 1997
changing as human society develops. It has happened before and still happening today and will continue to happen in the future.
GLOBALIZATION
TRUE OR FALSE: The future of globalization is easier to predict. What we could expect in the coming years is what has happened over the 50 years and that is the fluidity and complexity of globalization as a concept, which made more debates, discussions and definitions that agreements on it.
FALSE; GLOBALIZATION IS MORE DIFFICULT TO PREDICT
TRUE OR FALSE: One’s definition and perspective could determine concrete steps in addressing the issues of globalization. For instance, if one sees globalization as positive, the person can say that it is unifying force. If it is deemed as creating greater inequalities among nations, globalization is negatively treated.
TRUE
make use of one term to help us better understand another term
METAPHORS
In order to define globalization, the states of matter- ___-will be used
SOLID AND LIQUID
refers to barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things.
SOLIDITY
can either be natural or man-made
SOLIDS
as a state of matter, takes the shape of its container. Therefore, are not fixed
LIQUID
refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things , information and places in the contemporary world.
LIQUIDITY
she claimed that today’s liquid phenomena change quickly and their aspects, spatial and temporal, are in continuous fluctuation. It means that space and time are crucial elements of globalization
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
that their movement is difficult to stop. For example, videos that are uploaded in YouTube or Facebook are unstoppable once it become viral.
LIQUID PHENOMENA
the once increasing and proliferating today. Therefore, the metaphor that could best describe globalization
LIQUIDITY
TRUE OR FALSE: Liquidity and solidity do not have interaction
FALSE; Liquidity and solidity are in a constant interaction
are the movement of people , things, places and information brought by the growing porosity of global limitations
FLOWS
Global Financial Crises are also an example of ___
FLOWS
It refers to the increasing sameness in the world as cultural inputs, economic factors and political orientations of societies expand to create common practices, same economies and similar forms of government.
HOMOGENEITY
Homogeneity in culture is often linked to ____
CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
Stiglitz (2002) blamed the ___ for its “one-size-fits all” approach which treats every country in the world as the same. Rich countries become advantageous in the world economy at the expense of poor countries.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
In terms of the economy, the spread of ___in the world is an example of homogeneity
neoliberalism, capitalism and the market economy
Barber (1995) said that “___” is existing. It means only one political orientation is growing in today’s societies.
MCWORLD
destabilize the existence of alternative global media originating from developing countries such as the Al Jazeera (Bielsa, 2008) and the Bollywood (Larkin, 2003) as well as the influence of local and regional media
Media imperialism
can be seen as an arena for alternative media.
INTERNET
are dominated by a small number of large corporations
GLOBAL MEDIA
this is being extended from old media to new media” such as Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple’s iTunes. Internet, therefore end up being less diverse and competitive
GLOBAL MEDIA
claimed that the contemporary world is undergoing the process of McDonaldization
RITZER
It is a process by which Western societies are dominated by the principles of fats food restaurants. It involves the global spread of rational systems such as efficiency , calculability, predictability and control. He pointed out that this process is “extended to other businesses, sectors and geographic areas”.
MCDONALIZATION
in contrast to Glocalization, is a process wherein nations, corporations, etc. impose themselves on geographic areas in order to gain profits, power and so on. (Ryan, 2007)
GROBALIZATION
This refers to the differences because of either lasting differences or of the hybrids or combinations of cultures that can be produced through the different transplanetary processes.
HETEROGENEITY
Heterogeneity in culture is associated with
cultural hybridization.
A more specific concept is “___” coined by Roland Robertson in 1992. It means that global forces interact with local factors or a specific geographic area, the “glocal” is being produced.
GLOCALIZATION
Barber (1995) provided the alternate of “McWorld” –the “___”.
JIHAD
