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
