What Is globalisation?

Question 1

Giddens, Duneier and Applebaum (2005)

Answer 1

suggest that if human history were equivalent to 24hrs, the not much would have happened for the first 23hrs. More change would occur in the last 30s than the entire time that preceded this.

Question 2

Wiseman (1998)

Answer 2

warns us that the term ‘globalisation’ can be misused and misunderstood and therefore needs careful consideration when it is being used and defined in sociology.

Question 3

Giddens (1990)

Answer 3

Globalisation can be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities… where local happenings are shaped by events occurring miles away and vice versa