(P) L1: Concepts of Globalization (Transes-based) Flashcards
refers to noun: someone or something living at the same time or age as another
Contemporary
refers to adjective: happening, existing, living or coming into being during the same period of time
Contemporary
refers to an outlook that is limited to one’s immediate community
Parochialism
Globalization is derived from what word?
Globalize
refers to (emergence of an international network of economic systems
Globalize
It is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investments, and aided by information technology (Levin Institute, 2016).
Globalization
It is defined as a process that, based on international strategies, aims to expand business operations on a worldwide level, was precipitated by the facilitation of global communications due to technological advancements, and socioeconomic, political and environmental developments (Pologeorgis,
2017).
Globalization
“It is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investments, and aided by information technology.” Whose definition is this?
Levin Institute 2016
“It is defined as a process that, based on international strategies, aims to expand business operations on a worldwide level, was precipitated by the facilitation of global communications due to technological advancements, and socioeconomic, political and environmental developments .” Whose definition is this?
Pologeorgis, 2017
For them, globalization serves as a challenge for nation-states
For political scientist
For them, globalization means increase of free trade, speed of trade, global economic organization, and regional trade blocks
For economists
For them, globalization refers to the concept of global village
For culture and communication experts
He describes the process of globalization as “the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and across world-space”
Manfred Steger
When there is globalization, there’s a need for _________ and _________ for improvement or development
Expansion and intensification
defined as “both the creation of new social networks and the multiplication of exiting connections that cut across traditional, political, economic, cultural, and geographic boundaries”
Expansion
refers to expansion, stretching, and acceleration of these networks
Intensification
defined as “globalization processes do not occur merely at an objective, material level, but they also involve the subjective plane of human consciousness”
Time and Space
Who gave the four attributes of globalization?
Steger
What are the four attributes of globalization? (Main ideas)
- Has various forms of connectivity
- Allows expansion and stretching of social relations
- Globalization intensifies and accelerates social exchanges and activities
- Occurs worldwide
A complex phenomenon that occurs at multiple levels; an uneven process that affects people differently
Globalization
They view the process through various lenses that consider multiple theories and perspectives/interdisciplinary approach
Globalization scholars
Benefits or detrimental effects of Globalization?
▪ Economic Growth (access to labor, jobs, resources, ability for nations to “speacialize”)
▪ Increased global cooperation
▪ Increased cross-border investment
Benefits
Benefits or detrimental effects of Globalization?
▪ Increased competition
▪ Disproportionate growth
▪ Environmental concerns
Detrimental effects
According to him “globalization stands for quite a large spread across the world as one of the defining terms of the 20th century social consciousness”
Schottle
This person pointed out that even Osama Bin Laden, leader of the international terrorist group Al Qaeda, who denounced modernity and secularism, perfectly captured the complex dynamics of globalization
Steger
T or F: The rise of international terrorist organizations (their use of technology in promoting their ideologies) represents one of the many manifestations of globalization
True
T or F: Global flows occur in same physical and mental dimensions
False (different)
refers to a multidimensional group of procedures that build, accelerate, elaborate, and intensify world interactions while, at the same time, nurturing in people an increasing consciousness of deepening linkages between the local and far-off.
Globalization
This person proposed different kinds of globalization occur on multiple and intersecting dimensions of integration as “scapes”
Arjun Appadurai
Scapes; global movement of people
Ethnoscape
Scapes; flow of culture
Mediascape
Scapes; circulation of mechanical goods/software
Technoscape
Scapes; global circulation of money
Finanscape
Scapes; real where political views move around
Ideoscape
refers to globalization as a condition
Globality
This person denotes globality as “future social condition characterized by thick economic, political, and cultural interconnections and global flows that make currently existing political borders and economic barriers irrelevant”
Steger
Globalization has these, and an ideology is defined by these.
Core claims
This person uses the term globalism to mean globalization as an ideology
Steger
T or F: Steger posits that his definition of globalization is the same to an ideology he calls globalism
False (must be differentiated)
represents the many processes that allow for the expansion and intensification of global connections
Globalization
refers to 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
Globalism
through globalization, the world has become a borderless world which you call the ________
Global village
This person believes that media has connected the world in ways that created a global village
McLuhan (1964) `
`T or F: Globalization (process) is different from globalism (belief)
True
the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples
Imperialism
conviction that there is a “better” culture; some cultures see other cultures as superior to theirs, forming an inferior or non-dominant cultures
Cultural Imperialism
a situation in which one nation assumes economic power or influence over the others
Economic imperialism
