Lesson 1 Flashcards
(20 cards)
The belief, commonly held by influential individuals, that integrating economic markets on a global scale is advantageous for all, as it promotes the spread of freedom and democracy worldwide
Globalism
Refers to the awareness and understanding individuals or societies have about the interconnected and interdependent nature of the world.
Consciousness
describes globalization as “the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and across world-space.”
Manfred Steger
refers to both the creation of new social networks and the multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographic boundaries
Expansion
“the expansion, stretching and acceleration of these networks.”
Intensification
Global connections are multiplying & are also becoming more closely-knit & expanding their reach.
Interconnectedness
“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.”
Anthony Giddens
“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.”
Manfred Steger
“The closer integration of the countries and peoples of the world which has been brought about by the enormous reduction of costs of transportation and communication, and the breaking down of artificial barriers to the flow of goods, services, capital, knowledge, and people across borders.”
Joseph Stiglitz
Conceptualizes globalization through five “scape”’: ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, and ideoscapes.
Arjun Appadurai
Movement of people across the world
Ethnoscapes
Cross-border impact of technology
Technoscapes
Rapid movement of money globally
Financescapes
International media’s global influence
Mediascapes
Spread of ideas, symbols, and narratives
Ideoscapes
“A process (or set of processes) 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.”
David Held
“The compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole.”
Roland Robertson
“Globalization means the perceptible loss of boundaries in daily activities in the various dimensions of the economy, information, ecology, technology, transcultural conflicts and civil society.”
Ulrich Beck
“The spread of transplanetary – and in recent times also more particularly supraterritorial – connections between people.”
Jan Aart Scholte
Describes globalization as the “flattening” of the world, allowing for collaboration and competition on a global scale.
Thomas Friedman
