Contem

• Globalization


  A very important change, if not the "most important"
• Globalization makes us see ourselves as part of what we refer as "global age"
• Globalization cannot be contained within a specific time frame, all people and all situations
• Globalization encompasses a multitude of processes that involve the economy, political systems and culture
• Social structures are directly affected by globalization
• Globalization


  The process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer
• Some see globalization as occurring through and with regression, colonialism, and destabilization
• Broad and inclusive definition of globalization


  Globalization means the onset of the borderless world
• Narrow and exclusive definition of globalization


  Characteristics 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
• Globalization is complex and multifaceted as the definitions deal with either economic, political or social dimensions
• Ritzer (2015)

  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
• The perspective of the person who defines globalization shapes its definition
• Globalization is the debate and the debate is globalization:

  globalization is the debate about it”. ( Kumar, 2003
• Globalization is a reality that is changing as human society develops
• Solidity


  Barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things, can be natural or man-made
• Liquidity


  The increasing ease of movement of people, things, information and places in the contemporary world
• Liquidity is the one increasing and proliferating today, the metaphor that could best describe globalization is liquidity
• Flows


  The movement of people, things, places and information brought by the growing porosity of global limitations
• Homogeneity


  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
• Heterogeneity


  The differences because of either lasting differences or of the hybrids or combinations of cultures that can be produced through the different transplanetary processes
• Glocalization means that global forces interact with local factors or a specific geographic area, the "glocal" is being produced
• Jihad refers to the political groups that are engaged in an intensification of nationalism and that leads to greater political heterogeneity throughout the world
• (Bauman, 2003)


  one can define globalization as a very important change, if not, the “most important”
• (Albrow, 1996)


  The reality and omnipresence of globalization makes us see ourselves as part of what we refer as “global age”.
• (Al-Rhodan, 2006)


  Globalization cannot be contained within a specific time frame, all people and all situations
• Thomas Larsson (2001)


  SWEDISH JOURNALIST, globalization as “the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer. I
• mid 1990s, Martin Khor


  president of Third World Network (TWN) in Malaysia regarded globalization as colonization
• broad and inclusive

  Ohmae in 1992.stated that “globalization means the onset of the borderless world....”
• Definitions of Globalization

  • broad and inclusive
  • narrow and exclusive
• Narrow and exclusive


  better justified but can be limiting, Robert Cox. He stated that “the characteristics of the globalization trend include the internationalizing of production,
• Arjun Appadurai in 1996


  “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)
• THE COMPLEXITY OF THE CONCEPT OF GLOBALIZATION

  • THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PERSON WHO DEFINES GLOBALIZATION SHAPES ITS DEFINITION.
  • GLOBALIZATION IS THE DEBATE AND THE DEBATE IS GLOBALIZATION.
  • GLOBALIZATION IS A REALITY
• cultural imperialism


  a given culture influences other cultures.
• (Antonio, 2007)


  the spread of neoliberalism, capitalism and the market economy in the world is an example of homogeneity
• Stiglitz (2002)


  Global economic crises are also products of homogeneity in economic globalization.
• media imperialism


  The global flow of media
• McWorld


  means only one political orientation is growing in today’s societies.
• McDonaldization


  involves the global spread of rational systems such as efficiency , calculability, predictability and control.
• Roland Robertson (1992)


  coined the concept of glocalization