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it can include variety of issues and stresses more vagueness in defining globalization

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Broad and Inclusive

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These are justified and limiting in the sense of defining globalization

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Narrow and Exclusive

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Globalization deals with 3 dimension, mainly

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  1. Economic Dimension
  2. Political Dimension
  3. Social Dimension
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It is complex and multifaceted

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Globalization

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This organization conducted a comprehensive study regarding the number of definitions of globalization

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The Geneve Security Policy (GSCP)

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When did the GSCP conducted its study

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2006

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How many definitions of globalization that the GSCP found out?

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114 definitions, 67 of these refers to economic.

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It is a transplanetary process

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Globalization

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Metaphors of Globalization

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Solid/Liquid or Liquidity/Solidity

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When people, things, information, and places harden overtime is called?

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Epochs

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it refers to the barriers that prevent or make the movement of things.

They can either be natural or man-made

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Solidity

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It refers to the increasing ease movement of people, things, information, and places in the contemporary world.

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Liquidity

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These two are crucial in globalization in terms of liquid phenomena

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Time and Space

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give one characteristic of liquid phenomena

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their movements are difficult to stop

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It is the most important characteristic of liquid

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it tends to melt whatever in its path (especially solid)

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the metaphor that could best describe globalization is

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Liquidity

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These are the movement of people, things,places, and information brought by growing porosity of global limitations

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Flows

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Examples of Flows

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  1. illegal migrants flooding many parts of the world
  2. the virtual flow of the legal and illegal information such as child porno and blogs
  3. immigrants were creating ethnic and claims in host countries
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this refers to the increasing sameness in the world as cultural inputs, economic factors, and political orientations of societies expand to create common practices, same economies, and similar forms of government

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Homogeneity

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homogeneity in culture is often linked to

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cultural imperialism

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this means, a given culture influences other culures

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cultural imperialism

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Examples of Cultural Imperialism

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  1. christianity
  2. americanization
  3. global economic crises
  4. “mcworld” (barber 1997)
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It is often characterized as Media Imperialism

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The global flow of media

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It is the arena for alternative media

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Internet

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Ritzer 2008, claimed that the contemporary world is going through a process called
McDonaldization
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It is a process by which Western societies are dominated by the principles of fast food restaurants
McDonaldization
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*GROBALIZATION* is under
homogeneity
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it refers to the differences, hybrids, or combinations of cultures that can be produced to globalizaton
Heterogeneity
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Heterogeneity is often linked to
cultural hybridization
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this means, cultural elements blends into another culture by modifying the elements to fit cultural norms
cultural hybridization
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*GLOCALIZATION* is under
heterogeneity
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it allows the expasion of ideas to ft the norm of the nation in order to increase their power, influence, and profits.
grobalization
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this focuses on the uniqueness and differences within and between areas of thw world
glocalization
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The three perspective on global cultural flows are
1. Cultural differentialism 2. Cultural hybridization 3. Cultural Convergence
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it emphasizes the fact that *cultures are essentially different and are only superficially affected by global flows
Cultural Differentialism
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A process by which a *cultural element blends into their culture by modifying the element to fit cultural norms*
Cultural Hybridization
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It stresses homogeneity introducedby the globalization. *cultures are deemed to be radically altered by strong flows*
Cultural Convergence
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who is the anthropologist that has a concept of *scapes* or *flows*
Arjun Appadurai
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other term for flows
scapes
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cultural imperialism happens when
one culture imposes itself on and tends to destroy at least parts of another culture
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They have scattered and spread on a global scale, exhibiting solid proof confirming the erosion and failure of hybridization.
Religions/world religion
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these are the important means deemed to be able to spread religious ideas
1. information technologies 2. transportation means 3. media
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According to Chanda 2007, ur basic human needs to make our lives better that made globalization possible
hardwired
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these are the *urges* that pushes people toward a better life
commerce religion politics warfare (not totally means war, but competitions among countries)
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the four aspects of globalization
trade missionary work adventures conquest
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this refers that globalization is a long term cyclical process
cycles
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Sequence of the Epochs
1. globalization of religion 2. european colonial conquest (late 15th century) 3. intra-european wars (late 18th century to early 19th century) 4. heyday of european imperialism (mid 19th–1998) 5. post-world war II period 6. post-cold war war II period
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the origion/history of globalization pertaining to specific events that can be treated as the start of globalization
events
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are broad changes happened in the last half of the 20th century
broader, more recent changes
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the 3 notable changes as the origin of globalization
1. emergence of the united states 2. emergence of multinational corporations 3. demision of the soviet union and the end of the cold war
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these are examples of global processes that paved way for the so-called "free" world
immigration tourism media diplomacy MNC
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It is a singular historical period during which mortality and fertilitiy rates decline from high to low levels in a particular country or region.
Demographic Transition
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the 3 elements of demographic transition
death rate birth rate life expectancy
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people movements around the world
global migration
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5 types of migrants
vagabonds refugees asylum seekers tourist labor migration
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they are struggling in their home nations and are driven to relocate in the hope that their situation will improve
Vagabonds
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forced to escape their native nations owing to safey concerns
refugees
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refugees who want to stay in the nation from which they have fled
asylum seekers
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they travel because they want to and they can afford to
tourist
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people who migrate in search of job or labor
labor migration
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migration is governed by two factors
push factor and pull factor
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push factors
political persecution economic depression war famine in the home country
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pull factors
favorable immigration policy labor shortage, linguistic, and cultural similarities in the countries of desrination
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it is used to characterized migrant populations
diaspora
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it uses technology suc as the internet to keep the commumity network running
virtual diasporas
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he pointed out that globalization is a transplanetary process (+ epochs)
ritzer
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he mentioned that globalization is an idea. a subject for debate and the debate itself is globalization
cesare poppi
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he mentioned about the characteristics of liquidity
zygmunt bauman

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