Chap 1

Question 1

What was Steger teaching on 2001?

Answer 1

Modern political ans social theory

Question 2

Where was the recent attack on 2001?

Answer 2

World Trade Center and Pentagon

Question 3

What was Globalization in the understanding of Steger?

Answer 3

Contested concept

Question 4

A concept that refers to
sometimes contradictory social processes

Answer 4

Globalization
-Steger, 2003

Question 5

Wh was the Saudi-born Al Qaeda leader

Answer 5

Osama bin Laden

Question 6

When was bin Laden broadcast his global address?

Answer 6

Oct. 7, 2001

Question 7

The infamous videotape bears no date, but experts estimate that the recording was made in ___

Answer 7

Less than 2 weeks

Question 8

The timing of its release appears to have been carefully planned so
as to achieve the maximum effect on the day the United States commenced its bombing campaign against

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Taliban and Al Qaeda

Question 9

What part of Afghanistan they indulge themsevles?

Answer 9

Secluded place in Eastern Afghanistan

Question 10

Qatar-based television
company

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Al Jazeera

Question 11

In 2001, the company further intensified its global reach when
its chief executives signed a lucrative cooperation agreement
with

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CNN

Question 12

CNN the leading news network owned by the giant
multinational corporation

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AOL-TIME-Warner

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few months
later, when the world’s attention shifted to the war in
Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera had already positioned itself as a truly
global player, powerful enough to rent equipment to such prominent news providers

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Reuters and ABC

Question 14

Al Jazeera sell satellite time

Answer 14

Associated Press and BBC

Question 15

Al Jazeera design an innovative Arabic-
language business news channel together with its other American
network partner

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CNBC

Question 16

the Bush administration asked the Qatari government to

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Rein in Al Jazeera

Question 17

The swift airing of the bin Laden tape without prior consultation was contributing to the rise of

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Anti-American sentiments to Arab world and undermines the US war effort

Question 18

What was bin Laden wearing and what is its symbolism?

Answer 18

He wore a contempo military fatigue with Arab garments. Representing hybridization

Question 19

What was the pale colors of bin Laden’s mottled combat dress represent?

Answer 19

Betrayal in Russia and as a symbolization of the guerilla force against Societ occupation in Afghanistan in 1980

Question 20

What was his gun

Answer 20

AK-47 Kalashnikov

Question 21

What was his match brand?

Answer 21

TIMEX product

Question 22

Since its earliest appearance in the 1960s, the term ‘globalization’ has been used in both popular and academic literature to describe a ___

Answer 22

Process
Condition
System
Force
Age

Question 23

Signify a social condition
characterized by the existence of global economic, political,
cultural, and environmental interconnections and flows that make many of the currently existing borders and boundaries irrelevant.

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Globality

Question 24

a new social formation brought about by the successful colonization of our solar system

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Planetarity

Question 25

different social manifestations of globality:

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one might be based primarily on values of individualism and competition, as well as on an economic system of private property, while another might embody more communal and cooperative social arrangements, including less capitalistic economic relations.

Question 26

globalization should be used to refer to a set of ______ that are thought to transform our present social condition into one of globality

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Social processes

Question 27

Indeed, the popular phrase 'globalization is happening' contains three important pieces of information:

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First, we are slowly leaving behind the condition of modernity that gradually unfolded from the 16th century onwards; Second, we are moving toward the new condition of (postmodern) globality; and, Third, we have not yet reached it.

Question 28

'globalization' suggests a sort of dynamism best captured by the notion

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Development and Unfolding

Question 29

Globalozation gives us only one defining characteristic of the process:

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Moving towards greater interdependence and integration

Question 30

One of the reasons why globalization remains a contested concept is because

Answer 30

there exists no scholarly consensus on what kinds of social processes constitute its essence.

Question 31

They suggest that four distinct qualities or characteristics lie at the core of the phenomenon. What is the first?

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globalization involves the creation of new and the multiplication of existing social networks and activities that increasingly overcome traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries.

Question 32

2nd quality

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expansion and the stretching of social relations, activities, and interdependencies.

Question 33

The same process of social stretching applies to less sinister associations such as non-governmental organizations, commercial enterprises, social clubs, and countless regional and global institutions and associations such as the ___

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United Nations, the European Union, the Association of South East Asian Nations, the Organization of African Unity, the Common Market of the South, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the World Economic Forum, Microsoft, and General Motors

Question 34

3rd quality?

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Globalization involves the intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities.

Question 35

As the Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells has pointed out, the current rise of due to tech revolution

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Global network society

Question 36

4th quality?

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Creation, expansion, and intensification of social interconnections and interdependencies do not occur merely on an objective, material level. As Roland Robertson notes in his definition, globalization processes also involve the subjective plane of human consciousness.

Question 37

Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa.

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Anthony Giddens

Question 38

The concept of globalization reflects the sense of an immense enlargement of world communication, as well as of the hori- zon of a world market, both of which seem far more tangible and immediate than in earlier stages of modernity

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Fredric Jameson

Question 39

Globalization may be thought of as a process (or set of pro- cesses) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions - assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact - generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power.

Answer 39

David Held

Question 40

Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole.

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Ronald Robertson

Question 41

Globalization compresses the time and space aspects of social relations.

Answer 41

James Mittleman

Question 42

What is the overall definition

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Globalization refers to a multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, stretch, and intensify worldwide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant.

Question 43

Scholars not only hold different views with regard to proper definitions of globalization, they also disagree on

Answer 43

Scale, Causation, Chronology, Impact, Trajectories, and Policy outcomes

Question 44

The ancient Buddhist parable of the blind scholars and their encounter with the ___ helps to illustrate the nature of the academic controversy over the various dimensions of globalization.

Answer 44

Elephant

Question 45

refers to both creation of new social networks and multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries (Steger, 2003).

Answer 45

Expansion

Question 46

refers to the expansion, stretching, and acceleration of these networks(Steger, 2003).

Answer 46

Intensification

Question 47

is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology

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Globalozation -Bourdeaux, 2008

Question 48

The act or process of uniting different thing (Merriam Webster, 2018) Implies the adoption of policies by separate countries as if they were a single political unit (Streeten, 2018).

Answer 48

Integration

Question 49

Integration in what?

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Politics, Economy, Culture, Military, Entertainment, Sports

Question 50

mutual or reciprocal action or influence (Merriam Webster, 2018) individuals, states, organizations companies and other actors in international community establish relationships and networks and continue to influence each other

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Interaction

Question 51

it is the exchange of goods and services across international borders or territories.

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International trade

Question 52

The aplication of scientific knowledge

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Technology

Question 53

is when a nation or individual concentrates its productive efforts on producing a limited variety of goods. It oftentimes has to forgo producing other goods and relies on obtaining those other goods through trade (Wells, 2018).

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Specialization

Question 54

the voluntarily arrangement in which two or more entities engage in a mutually beneficial exchange instead of competing. Cooperation can happen where resources adequate for both parties exist or are created by their interaction

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Cooperation

Question 55

the rivalry in which every seller tries to get what other sellers are seeking at the same time: sales, profit, and market share by offering the best practicable combination of price, quality, and service.

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Competition

Question 56

Five scapes by

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Arjun Appadurai

Question 57

Flow of people

Answer 57

Ehtnoscapes

Question 58

Flow of ideas

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Ideoscapes

Question 59

Flow of techs

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Technospaces

Question 60

Flow of money

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Financescapes

Question 61

Flow of people

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Mediascapes

Question 62

the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa’ – social relations are ‘lifted out’ from local contexts of interaction and restructured across time and space

Answer 62

Time-space distanciation (Theory of Space, Place, and Globalzation)

Question 63

is the process whereby time is reorganized in such a way as to reduce the constraints of space, and vice-versa (David Harvey, 1990)

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Time-space compression

Question 64

refers to the rise of new communities and the formation of new social identities and relations that cannot be defined through the traditional reference point of nation-states

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Transnationality

Question 65

refer to the activities of immigrants to forge and sustain multi- stranded social relations that link their societies of origin and settlement as a single unified field of social action encompassing a wide variety of transformative processes, practices and developments that take place simultaneously at a local and global level

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Transnationalism

Question 66

are the multiple ties and interactions – economic, political, social and cultural – that link people, communities and institutions across the borders of nation-states

Answer 66

Transnational process and practice

Question 67

an awareness of the world as a single place

Answer 67

Global consciousness (Theory of global culture)

Question 68

see a global cultural convergence and would tend to highlight the rise of world beat, world cuisines, world tourism, uniform consumption patterns and cosmopolitanism

Answer 68

Homogenization theory

Question 69

see continued cultural difference and highlight local cultural autonomy, cultural resistance to homogenization, cultural clashes and polarization, and distinct subjective experiences of globalization

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Homogeneity approaches

Question 70

stresses new and constantly evolving cultural forms and identities produced by manifold transnational processes and the fusion of distinct cultural processes

Answer 70

Hybridization

Question 71

refers to sociocultural processes by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant came to dominate more and more sectors of US and later world society

Answer 71

McDonaldization

Question 72

Culturally meaningful institutions, sites and practices locally controlled and rich in indigenous content – ‘something’ – are being replaced by (corporate driven) uniform social forms devoid of distinctive substance – ‘nothing’.

Answer 72

Globalization of nothing