LECTURE 1

Question 1

Defined as “a very important change, if not, the “most important”. (Bauman, 2003)

Answer 1

GLOBALIZATION

Question 2

The reality and omnipresence of globalization makes us see ourselves as part of what we refer as “_____”. (Albrow, 1996)

Answer 2

GLOBAL AGE

Question 3

______ by browsing google and mass media for example make connections available among people, communities and countries all over the world.

Answer 3

INTERNET

Question 4

TRUE OR FALSE: Globalization must be contained within a specific time frame, all people and all situations (Al-Rhodan, 2006).

Answer 4

FALSE; GLOBALIZATION CANNOT BE CONTAINED WITHIN A SPECIFIC TIME FRAME

Question 5

This encompasses a multitude of processes that involve the economy, political systems and culture

Answer 5

GLOBALIZATION

Question 6

_____ therefore are directly affected by globalization.

Answer 6

SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Question 7

Swedish journalist, ____ (2001) saw globalization as “the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer.

Answer 7

THOMAS LARSSON

Question 8

It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit with somebody on the other side of the world

Answer 8

GLOBALIZATION

Question 9

In the mid 1990s, ____, former president of Third World Network (TWN) in Malaysia, once regarded globalization as colonization.

Answer 9

MARTIN KHOR

Question 10

Definitions of Globalization could be classified as either:

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(1) broad and inclusive or (2) narrow and exclusive.

Question 11

He stated that “globalization means the onset of the borderless world….”

Answer 11

OHMAE, 1992

Question 12

“globalization means the onset of the borderless world….” It is an example of ___ since this definition may include a variety of issues that deal with overcoming traditional boundaries.

Answer 12

BROAD AND INCLUSIVE

Question 13

better justified but can be limiting, in the sense that their application adhere to only particular or specific definitions.

Answer 13

NARROW AND EXCLUSIVE

Question 14

He stated that “the characteristics of the globalization trend include the internationalizing of production, the international division of labor, new migratory movements from South to North, the new competitive environment that accelerate these processes, and the internationalizing of state… making states into agencies of the globalizing world.” (RAWOO Netherlands Development Assistance Research Council, 2000)

Answer 14

ROBERT COX

Question 15

WHO STATES THAT “globalization is a transplanetary process or a set of processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multidirectional flows of people, objects, places and information as well as structures they encounter and create that are barriers to , or expedite those flows….”

Answer 15

RITZER, 2015

Question 16

WHO STATES THAT “globalization is a world of things that have different speeds, axes, points or origin and termination and varied relationships to institutional structures in different regions, nations or societies.” (Chowdhury, 2006)

Answer 16

ARJUN APPADURAI, 1996

Question 17

SOCIOLOGIST THAT STATES THAT “The literature stemming from the debate on globalization has grown in the last decade beyond any individual’s capability of extracting a workable definition of the concept. In a sense, the meaning of the concept is self-evident, in another, it is vague and obscure as its reaches are wide and constantly shifting. Perhaps, more than any other concept , globalization is the debate about it”. ( Kumar, 2003)

Answer 17

CESARE POPPI, 1997

Question 18

changing as human society develops. It has happened before and still happening today and will continue to happen in the future.

Answer 18

GLOBALIZATION

Question 19

TRUE OR FALSE: The future of globalization is easier to predict. What we could expect in the coming years is what has happened over the 50 years and that is the fluidity and complexity of globalization as a concept, which made more debates, discussions and definitions that agreements on it.

Answer 19

FALSE; GLOBALIZATION IS MORE DIFFICULT TO PREDICT

Question 20

TRUE OR FALSE: One’s definition and perspective could determine concrete steps in addressing the issues of globalization. For instance, if one sees globalization as positive, the person can say that it is unifying force. If it is deemed as creating greater inequalities among nations, globalization is negatively treated.

Answer 20

TRUE

Question 21

make use of one term to help us better understand another term

Answer 21

METAPHORS

Question 22

In order to define globalization, the states of matter- ___-will be used

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SOLID AND LIQUID

Question 23

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

Answer 23

SOLIDITY

Question 24

can either be natural or man-made

Answer 24

SOLIDS

Question 25

as a state of matter, takes the shape of its container. Therefore, are not fixed

Answer 25

LIQUID

Question 26

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

Answer 26

LIQUIDITY

Question 27

she claimed that today’s liquid phenomena change quickly and their aspects, spatial and temporal, are in continuous fluctuation. It means that space and time are crucial elements of globalization

Answer 27

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Question 28

that their movement is difficult to stop. For example, videos that are uploaded in YouTube or Facebook are unstoppable once it become viral.

Answer 28

LIQUID PHENOMENA

Question 29

the once increasing and proliferating today. Therefore, the metaphor that could best describe globalization

Answer 29

LIQUIDITY

Question 30

TRUE OR FALSE: Liquidity and solidity do not have interaction

Answer 30

FALSE; Liquidity and solidity are in a constant interaction

Question 31

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

Answer 31

FLOWS

Question 32

Global Financial Crises are also an example of ___

Answer 32

FLOWS

Question 33

It 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.

Answer 33

HOMOGENEITY

Question 34

Homogeneity in culture is often linked to ____

Answer 34

CULTURAL IMPERIALISM

Question 35

Stiglitz (2002) blamed the ___ for its “one-size-fits all” approach which treats every country in the world as the same. Rich countries become advantageous in the world economy at the expense of poor countries.

Answer 35

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Question 36

In terms of the economy, the spread of ___in the world is an example of homogeneity

Answer 36

neoliberalism, capitalism and the market economy

Question 37

Barber (1995) said that "___” is existing. It means only one political orientation is growing in today’s societies.

Answer 37

MCWORLD

Question 38

destabilize the existence of alternative global media originating from developing countries such as the Al Jazeera (Bielsa, 2008) and the Bollywood (Larkin, 2003) as well as the influence of local and regional media

Answer 38

Media imperialism

Question 39

can be seen as an arena for alternative media.

Answer 39

INTERNET

Question 40

are dominated by a small number of large corporations

Answer 40

GLOBAL MEDIA

Question 41

this is being extended from old media to new media” such as Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple’s iTunes. Internet, therefore end up being less diverse and competitive

Answer 41

GLOBAL MEDIA

Question 42

claimed that the contemporary world is undergoing the process of McDonaldization

Answer 42

RITZER

Question 43

It is a process by which Western societies are dominated by the principles of fats food restaurants. It involves the global spread of rational systems such as efficiency , calculability, predictability and control. He pointed out that this process is “extended to other businesses, sectors and geographic areas”.

Answer 43

MCDONALIZATION

Question 44

in contrast to Glocalization, is a process wherein nations, corporations, etc. impose themselves on geographic areas in order to gain profits, power and so on. (Ryan, 2007)

Answer 44

GROBALIZATION

Question 45

This refers to the differences because of either lasting differences or of the hybrids or combinations of cultures that can be produced through the different transplanetary processes.

Answer 45

HETEROGENEITY

Question 46

Heterogeneity in culture is associated with

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cultural hybridization.

Question 47

A more specific concept is “___” coined by Roland Robertson in 1992. It means that global forces interact with local factors or a specific geographic area, the “glocal” is being produced.

Answer 47

GLOCALIZATION

Question 48

Barber (1995) provided the alternate of “McWorld” –the “___”.

Answer 48

JIHAD