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Question 1

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What is globalisation?

Answer

Globalization involves the multiplication, expansion, and acceleration of social networks, the compression of space and time and associated with these processes, expanded awareness among individuals/groups (Steger, 2003)

Question 2

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Global integration

Answer

“…a widening, deepening, and speeding up of interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life” (Held & McGrew, 1999)

Question 3

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What are the dimensions of globalisation?

Answer

Economic
Political
Environmental
Cultural ……. dimensions

Question 4

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Postive perspective 1

Answer

More opportunities:
- investment
- jobs = money
- commodities = improved quality of life
- development
- democracy
- cosmopolitan ideas

Linked to modernisation theory (Rostow, 1960)

Positive = James Watson

Question 5

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What are the reasons people take different positions on globalisation?

Answer

Neoliberalism

Question 6

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Negative perspective 1

Answer

McDonaldization = world-wide expansion of rational, bureaucratic system of social life

Negative = Ritzer (1993)

Question 7

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What are the four main principles of McDonaldization?

Answer

1: Efficiency
2: Calculability
3: Predictability
4: Control

Power creates the ability to produce productions

Question 8

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Negative perspective 2

Answer

Barber 1996
Jihad vs. McWorld
“tribalism and globalism clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy”
- independence and identity

Question 9

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Postitive 2

Answer

Robertson
Glocal cultures
Cultural Rainbow = with globalization Glocal Cultures, trends, innovations emerge, hybridization, localization

(see Potter, 2001)

Question 10

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Appadurai

Answer

1990
"the central problem of today's global interaction is the tension between cultural-homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation"

Question 11

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Quote Hall (1995)

Answer

'global consumerism, though limited by its uneven geography of power (Massey, 1991), spreads the same thin cultural film over everything - Big Macs, Coca-Cola and Nike trainers everywhere'.
- implications of convergence and homogeneity

Question 12

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Massey

Answer

- power geometry of space-time compression. Related to flows and interconnections.
different social groups have distinct relationships to mobility.

Question 13

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Massey: 1994: Space-time compression

Answer

Factors determining how people are placed in the space-time compression:
- communication and networks
- power and influence. who is in charge?
- different social groups have different flows and interconnections

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What is globalisation?

Globalization involves the multiplication, expansion, and acceleration of social networks, the compression of space and time and associated with these processes, expanded awareness among individuals/groups (Steger, 2003)

Global integration

“…a widening, deepening, and speeding up of interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life” (Held & McGrew, 1999)

What are the dimensions of globalisation?

Economic
Political
Environmental
Cultural ……. dimensions

Postive perspective 1

More opportunities:
- investment
- jobs = money
- commodities = improved quality of life
- development
- democracy
- cosmopolitan ideas

Linked to modernisation theory (Rostow, 1960)

Positive = James Watson

What are the reasons people take different positions on globalisation?

Neoliberalism

Negative perspective 1

McDonaldization = world-wide expansion of rational, bureaucratic system of social life

Negative = Ritzer (1993)

What are the four main principles of McDonaldization?

1: Efficiency
2: Calculability
3: Predictability
4: Control

Power creates the ability to produce productions

Negative perspective 2

Barber 1996
Jihad vs. McWorld
“tribalism and globalism clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy”
- independence and identity

Postitive 2

Robertson
Glocal cultures
Cultural Rainbow = with globalization Glocal Cultures, trends, innovations emerge, hybridization, localization

(see Potter, 2001)

Appadurai

1990
"the central problem of today's global interaction is the tension between cultural-homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation"

Quote Hall (1995)

'global consumerism, though limited by its uneven geography of power (Massey, 1991), spreads the same thin cultural film over everything - Big Macs, Coca-Cola and Nike trainers everywhere'.
- implications of convergence and homogeneity

Massey

- power geometry of space-time compression. Related to flows and interconnections.
different social groups have distinct relationships to mobility.

Massey: 1994: Space-time compression

Factors determining how people are placed in the space-time compression:
- communication and networks
- power and influence. who is in charge?
- different social groups have different flows and interconnections

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What is globalisation?

Globalization involves the multiplication, expansion, and acceleration of social networks, the compression of space and time and associated with these processes, expanded awareness among individuals/groups (Steger, 2003)​

Global integration

“…a widening, deepening, and speeding up of interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life” (Held & McGrew, 1999)​

What are the dimensions of globalisation?

Economic​Political ​Environmental​Cultural ……. dimensions

Postive perspective 1

More opportunities:- investment- jobs = money- commodities = improved quality of life- development - democracy- cosmopolitan ideasLinked to modernisation theory (Rostow, 1960)Positive = James Watson

What are the reasons people take different positions on globalisation?

Neoliberalism

Negative perspective 1

McDonaldization = world-wide expansion of rational, bureaucratic system of social lifeNegative = Ritzer (1993)

What are the four main principles of McDonaldization?

1: Efficiency2: Calculability 3: Predictability 4: ControlPower creates the ability to produce productions

Negative perspective 2

Barber 1996Jihad vs. McWorld“tribalism and globalism clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy” - independence and identity

Postitive 2

RobertsonGlocal culturesCultural Rainbow = with globalization Glocal Cultures, trends, innovations emerge, hybridization, localization (see Potter, 2001)

Appadurai

1990"the central problem of today's global interaction is the tension between cultural-homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation"

Quote Hall (1995)

'global consumerism, though limited by its uneven geography of power (Massey, 1991), spreads the same thin cultural film over everything - Big Macs, Coca-Cola and Nike trainers everywhere'.- implications of convergence and homogeneity

Massey

- power geometry of space-time compression. Related to flows and interconnections.different social groups have distinct relationships to mobility.

Massey: 1994: Space-time compression

Factors determining how people are placed in the space-time compression:- communication and networks- power and influence. who is in charge?- different social groups have different flows and interconnections

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Globalization involves the multiplication, expansion, and acceleration of social networks, the compression of space and time and associated with these processes, expanded awareness among individuals/groups (Steger, 2003)

“…a widening, deepening, and speeding up of interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life” (Held & McGrew, 1999)

Economic
Political
Environmental
Cultural ……. dimensions

More opportunities:
- investment
- jobs = money
- commodities = improved quality of life
- development
- democracy
- cosmopolitan ideas

Linked to modernisation theory (Rostow, 1960)

Positive = James Watson

McDonaldization = world-wide expansion of rational, bureaucratic system of social life

Negative = Ritzer (1993)

1: Efficiency
2: Calculability
3: Predictability
4: Control

Power creates the ability to produce productions

Barber 1996
Jihad vs. McWorld
“tribalism and globalism clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy”
- independence and identity

Robertson
Glocal cultures
Cultural Rainbow = with globalization Glocal Cultures, trends, innovations emerge, hybridization, localization

(see Potter, 2001)

1990
"the central problem of today's global interaction is the tension between cultural-homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation"

'global consumerism, though limited by its uneven geography of power (Massey, 1991), spreads the same thin cultural film over everything - Big Macs, Coca-Cola and Nike trainers everywhere'.
- implications of convergence and homogeneity

- power geometry of space-time compression. Related to flows and interconnections.
different social groups have distinct relationships to mobility.

Factors determining how people are placed in the space-time compression:
- communication and networks
- power and influence. who is in charge?
- different social groups have different flows and interconnections