MODULE 1 END OF MODULE TEST Flashcards
In this period the invention of writing and the wheel were great social and technological boosts that moved globalization to a new
The Pre-modern Period (3500 BC
It is often used to legitimize certain political interests or to defend dominant power structures
Ideological Dimensions
This is considered as one principal driver of globalization.
Technology
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
Economic Dimension
This results hybridization- a constructive interaction process between global and local characteristics which is often visible in food, music, dance, film, fashion, and languange
Cultural diversity
This is a religious response to the materialist assault by the ungodly West in the rest of the world
Jihadist globalism
The period of leap in the history of globalization
The Contemporary Period (from 1970 to present)
This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world; this is about growing worldwide connectivity
Globalization (according to Steger)
These are the dominant cultural characteristics of our
age and the drive for economic success stimulated by the internet and other technological devices circulate much more easily than they did in earlier periods.
Individualism and consumerism
ToF: Today’s globalization, relatively, has more disadvantages in comparison to earlier wave of globalization
FALSE; Today’s globalization is farther, faster, cheaper, and deeper in compared to earlier wave of globalization.
ToF: During the Prehistoric Period, globalization was severely limited
TRUE; In this period due to absence of advanced forms of technology, globalization was severely limited.
ToF: Globalization involves the macro-structures of a global community as its basic coverage and concern
TRUE; Globalization involves both the macro-structures of a global community and the micro-structures of global personhood.
ToF: Media empires generated and directed the extensive flow of culture.
TRUE; Media empires generated and directed the extensive flow of culture. Examples of these are Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Disney.
ToF: Social justice ensures a basic equity in how both the burden and the goods of society are distributed and that ensures that every person enjoys a basically equal moral and legal standing apart from differences in wealth, privilege, talent and achievement
FALSE; Distributive justice ensures a basic equity in how both the burden and the goods of society are distributed and that ensures that every person enjoys a basically equal moral and legal standing apart from differences in wealth, privilege, talent and achievement.
ToF: The Roman Catholic teaching of globalization believes that the poor are susceptible to the effects of environmental irresponsibility because they live in countries where building materials and labor are expensive
FALSE; Preferential option of the poor (In the Theology of the Incarnation- Christ God became poor for us so as to enrich us by his poverty. The poor are susceptible to
the effects of environmental irresponsibility because they live in countries where cheap building materials and cheap labor are readily available
ToF: Social networking, social stretching, and controlled social exchanges and activities are among the positive implications of globalization
TRUE; Read “Attributes, Qualities or Characteristics of Globalization”
ToF: People engaging in buying and selling from other places in far-away lands is an example of how globalization
TRUE; People are engaged in buying and selling from other places in far-away lands like the famed Silk Road 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
ToF: Globalization processes occur on an objective, material level of human consciousness.
FALSE; Globalization processes do not occur merely or an objective, material level but they also involve the subjective plane of human consciousness. Without erasing local and
national attachments, the compression of the world into a single place has increasingly made global the frame of reference for human thought and action
ToF: Process of industrialization accelerated during the Modern Period
TRUE; The Modern Period (1750-1970): Innovations in transportation and communication technology, population
explosion, and increase in migration led to more cultural exchanges and transformation in traditional social patterns. Process of industrialization also accelerated
What are 5 Major Ideological Claims of Advocates of Globalization?
- Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of market
- Globalization is inevitable and irreversible
- Nobody is in charge of globalization
- Globalization benefits everyone
- Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world
“For the globalists democracy and free markets are synonymous” implies?
Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world
This claim seeks to depoliticize the public debate on globalization and neutralizing anti -globalist movements.
Nobody is in charge of globalization
“Globalists talk about the benefits of market liberalization such as rising global living standards, economic efficiency, individual freedom, and technological progress. But the reality is that the opportunities of globalization are spread
unequally and power and wealth are concentrated among a specific group of people, regions and corporations” implies?
Globalization benefits everyone
The problem with this claim is that liberalization and integration of markets happen through political project of engineering free markets by interference of centralized state power, and it is in contrast to the neoliberal ideal of limited role of governments.
Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of market
