Week 9: Globalization

Question 1

globalization

Answer 1

Increasing interaction and integration of people, places, governments, and companies around the world

Question 2

ethnoscapes

Answer 2

flow of people across boundaries

Question 3

technoscapes

Answer 3

flow of technology

Question 4

ideoscapes

Answer 4

flow of ideas

Question 5

financescapes

Answer 5

flow of money across political borders

Question 6

mediascapes

Answer 6

flow of media across borders

Question 7

glocalization

Answer 7

adaption of global ideas into locally palatable forms

Question 8

neoliberalism

Answer 8

Dominant ideology shaping world economy and globalization
Emphasis on an unfettered free market

Question 9

neoliberalism - positive effects

Answer 9

can connect with the rest of the world

Question 10

neoliberalism - negative effects

Answer 10

Cultural homogenization, The west domination the rest of the world, Slower economic growth than previous decades, Increased wealth for those already very wealthy, Increased income disparity-shrinking middle class, Downward trend in wages, Massive rise in precarious and contract labour, Dismantling of protecting over natural resources

Question 11

social life of things

Answer 11

How does everything we use connect us and impact people