The document discusses the concept of globalization, noting that while it started centuries ago, the term was popularized in the 1990s. Globalization refers to the increasing interconnectedness between societies around the world, driven by advances in technology and transportation that compress time and space. The document examines different definitions and philosophies around globalization and its impacts on economic, political, social, and cultural spheres globally.
The document discusses the concept of globalization, noting that while it started centuries ago, the term was popularized in the 1990s. Globalization refers to the increasing interconnectedness between societies around the world, driven by advances in technology and transportation that compress time and space. The document examines different definitions and philosophies around globalization and its impacts on economic, political, social, and cultural spheres globally.
The document discusses the concept of globalization, noting that while it started centuries ago, the term was popularized in the 1990s. Globalization refers to the increasing interconnectedness between societies around the world, driven by advances in technology and transportation that compress time and space. The document examines different definitions and philosophies around globalization and its impacts on economic, political, social, and cultural spheres globally.
The document discusses the concept of globalization, noting that while it started centuries ago, the term was popularized in the 1990s. Globalization refers to the increasing interconnectedness between societies around the world, driven by advances in technology and transportation that compress time and space. The document examines different definitions and philosophies around globalization and its impacts on economic, political, social, and cultural spheres globally.
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU EXPERIENCE GLOBALIZATION EVERYDAY IN YOUR LIVES?
• You may not be aware of it but some examples are
the food you eat just like those sold in Jollibee which are distributed worldwide. IPhones used to connect people all over the world, books you can access through the Internet, among others. In the past, the planet was a large society where human activities and their effects were nearly compartmentalized within nations, with sectors, (energy, agriculture, commerce and the like), and within broad areas of socio-economic and environmental concerns. However, these compartments have long been dissolved with the emergence of globalization. CONCEPTS OF GLOBALIZATION
Globalization in terms of global interdependence
started centuries ago although the term was just used recently (Toffler, 1981. pp.490-91). For James and Steger (2014), it is an extraordinary and complicated concept that was rarely used until the 1990’s but with processes that had been happening for centuries. In the contemporary context, the term “is used to indicate the global nature of capital, the emergence of a single global economy, and tremendous speed of exchange across vast distance. (Kakepoto, 2005).
The globalization process in vogue greatly impacts on
ideological, intellectual, economic, political, and above all social spheres. The essence of globalization is the individual’s increasing awareness of other peoples, culture, and religions as a result of technological advances in communications and travel. With the expansion of awareness, the concept of personal identity has also broaden. For example, surveys show that in Europe, most of the people between the ages of 18 and 30 find their identity moren in relationship to the concept off “ Europe” than to the other country in which they live (Wishard, 1999) UNDERLYING PHILOSOPHIES OF THE VARYING DEFINITION OF GLOBALIZATION According to the dictionary, globalization means different things to different people. Since its earliest appearance in the 1960’s “globalization” has been used in both popular and academic literature to described a wide variety of phenomenon, including a process, an outcome, a condition, a system a force, an age, and an ideology (Steger, 2017) Immanuel Wallerstein defines “Globalization, represents the triumph of a capitalist world economy tied together by global division of labor”
David Harvey, “Globalization is the compression of time and
space”. Martin Albrow, Globalization is all the process by which the people of the world are incorporated in a single world society. Anthony Giddins, Globalization canthus be defined as 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.
Kenichi Ohmae, “Globalization means the onset of
the borderless world”. Steger (2005) used the term globality to signify 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.
He proposed that the core of Globalization is the
unprecedented compression of time and space as a result of political, economic, and cultural change, as well as powerful technological innovations. He then developed the six core claims of globalism;
• Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration
of markets; • Globalization is inevitable and irreversible. • Nobody is in charge of globalization. • Globalization benefits everyone (i.e., in the long run); • Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world; • Globalization requires a global war on terror. Student activities: To be submitted before Wednesday. • How do cross-cultural differences influence our personal and social life? • What do you think are the drivers of globalization? Support you answer. • Go to YouTube and watch the video “Globalization video” and formulate your own working definition of globalization for the course.