Introductory discussions on globalization Flashcards
(19 cards)
- Very important change, if not, the most important
- Has various definitions as it refers to (but not limited to) progress, development and integration
- Cannot be contained in a specific time frame, all people, all situations (Al-Rhodan, 2006)
- Encompasses a multitude of processes
- May result to positive (world shrinkage, unifying force) or negative (creating greater inequalities)
Globalization
2 ways in defining globalization
- Broad and inclusive
- Narrow and exclusive
2 ways in defining globalization
Overcomes traditional boundaries but tends to be vague
Broad and inclusive
2 ways in defining globalization
specific but limiting definitions
Narrow and exclusive
A complex concept as it encompasses economic, political and social aspects and it may result to either integration (things flow easily) and fragmentation (hindrances/structural blocks that slows down one’s activity in other country)
Globalization
True or False: The perception of the person who defines globalization shapes its meaning.
True
True or False: Globalization is a debate, and the debate itself is globalization
True
True or False: Globalization is a reality.
True
True or False: Globalization is a recent phenomenon and has never happened before.
False
Globalization has happened before and is still happening
True or False: Globalization is easy to define because it is shifting in nature
False
Globalization is not easy to define because it is shifting in nature
True or False: Globalization is simple and cannot be influenced by the people who define it
False
It is complex and can be influenced by the people who define it
True or False: Globalization has been used in both popular and academic literature to describe a wide variety of phenomena including a process, a condition, a system, a force and an age, and this results in clarity.
False
Globalization has been used in both popular and academic literature to describe a wide variety of phenomena including a process, a condition, a system, a force and an age. This results to confusion.
True or False: According to Steger (2005), globalization should not be confined to a set of complex, sometimes contradictory, social processes that are changing our current social condition based on the modern system of independent nation-states.
False
Therefore, globalization should be confined to a set of complex, sometimes contradictory, social processes that are changing our current social condition based on the modern system of independent nation-states (Steger, 2005).
Refers to a future social condition characterized by thick economic, political and cultural interconnections and global flows that make currently existing political borders and economic barriers irrelevant.
Globality
3 criteria in determining the status of a particular political belief system (Michael Freeden)
- Its degree of uniqueness and morphological sophistication
- world shrinkage - Its context-bound responsiveness to a broad range of political issues
- al qaeda; covid19 pandemic - Its ability to produce an effective conceptual decontestation chains
6 core claims of globalism/globalization (Steger, 2005)
- Claim one: globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets
- Claim two: globalization is inevitable and irreversible
- Claim three: nobody is in charge of globalization
- Claim four: globalization benefits everyone (…in the long run)
- Claim five: globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world
- Claim six: globalization requires a global war on terror
True or False: We cannot simply wish away globalization
True
Any activities which are connected by screens and networks
Electronic Herd
4 elements of Mcdonaldization (George Ritzer)
- Efficiency
- Calculability
- Predictability
- Control
