Gec103 Week1 Introduction To Globalization
Gec103 Week1 Introduction To Globalization
Gec103 Week1 Introduction To Globalization
Introduction to
Globalization
DEFINING, HISTORY, METAPHORS, EFFECTS, AND THEORIES OF
GLOBALIZATION
WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?
Human beings have encountered many changes over the last century
especially in their social relationship and social structures.
Globalization means the speedup of movements and changes
(of human beings, goods, and services, capital, technologies or
cultural practices) all over the planet.
Globalization encompasses a multiple of processes that involves the
economy, political system, and culture, therefore, are directly affected
by globalization. It is a very important change, if not, it is the MOST
IMPORTANT.
Over the years, globalization has gained many connotations
pertaining to progress,, development and integration.
Progress- movement forward, the process of improving or
developing over something or period of time.
Development- the act or process of growing or causing something to
grow o become larger or more advanced.
Integration- incorporation as equal into society or an organization
of individuals, coordination through operation of solving differential.
Globalization view as a positive Phenomenon.
Martin Khor, say that Globalization is way of Colonization.
The literature on the definitions of globalization revealed that
definitions could be classifies as either…
Broad and inclusive or narrow and exclusive
Broad and Inclusive--- covering or including everything, open
to everyone, not limited to certain people, including the stated
limits and everything in between. (BROAD
GLOBALIZATION, NOT SPECIFIC)
Ohmae (1992), Globalization is “the onset
of the borderless world.”
Narrow and Exclusive-- not shared,
available to only one person or group,
available to a few group of people.
(LIMITED GLOBALIZATION,
SPECIFIC)
Ritzer (2015), “globalization is a transplanetary
process or a set of processes involving
increasing liquidity and the growing
multidirectional flows of people, object, places,
and information's as well as the structure they
encounter and create that are barriers to, or
expedite, those flows.
Globalization could bring either or both
integration and or fragmentation.
Main reasons that have Caused Globalization