Concepts in Globalization (M1)

GLOBALIZATION
Concepts, Characteristics and Perspectives
Prepared by: Prof. Mimosa N. Joson

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DEFINITION (“IDEOLOGIES OF GLOBALIZATION” BY MANFRED STEGER
AND “DRIVING FORCES OF GLOBALIZATION” BY IRINA KOZAROVA )
 It describes a wide phenomena including, a

process, a condition, a system,
a force or an age.
 Examples:
 1. historical process
(development and
periodization; Afro-Eurasian
migration)
 2. process of intensification
of social relations on the
local, regional, continental,
intercontinental or global
scale
 It is derived from the word

“global” which refers to
expansive interconnectivity
of locality- spanning local
sites of social, cultural,
economic and political life.
DEFINITION (INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY FUND /IMF)
 Globalization is a historical
process which is the result of
human innovation and
technological processes.
DEVELOPMENT OF
GLOBALIZATION
 When did globalization begin?
 Most proposed starting points center on
 one of three historical events:
 1. the Industrial Revolution about 1800;
 2. Western maritime
 expansion around 1500;
 3. the integration of Asia around 1000 or
earlier.
 The use of internet in the 1980’s intensified
globalization.
MODERNIZATION CONCEPT
 DEFINITION: Modernization, in sociology, the
transformation from a traditional, rural,
agrarian society to a secular, urban,
industrial society.
 All the features that are associated with

modernity can be shown to be related to the
set of changes that, some 250 years ago,
brought into being the industrial type of
society.
MODERNIZATION CONCEPT
 Renaissance, Reformation and the
Revolutions (America, French and Industrial
Revolution of England) paved the way to
radical shifts in the political, economic, and
socio-cultural changes in the society.
MODERNIZATION VS.
GLOBALIZATION
 MODERNIZATION  GLOBALIZATION
 1. Transformation
 1. It is a historical
process which is the
of traditional, result of human
rural, agrarian innovation and
society to a technological
secular, urban, processes using
industrial society; expansive
interconnectivity;
 2. Started some  2. Intensified with the
250 years ago. use of internet
(1980’s)
CHARACTERISTICS OF
GLOBALIZATION
 1. Transference – intensified
exchange of things between pre-
constituted units across borders.
 2. Transformation – refers to the
profound impact on identity of
units leaving residual states and
a few options to strengthen it.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
GLOBALIZATION
 3. Transcendence –
globalization is neither inside
nor outside but a process that
dissolves the divide between
the inside and outside;
 Despatializes and
detemporalizes existing
practices and conditions.
TRANSFERENCE TRANSFORMATION TRANSCENDENCE
Interaction and Occurs at the Despatializes and
transference systems level and it detemporalizes
between existing affects the sectors of human practices as
units; this may be the system and the well as the
political , economic identities of the units conditions of human
or cultural. and agents that knowledge, and it
alter/shape their projects them onto
character; the global as a
condition of its
existence
The unit does not Works from outside-
lose its identity; in.
works from inside-
out.
EXAMPLES OF CHARACTERISTICS
OF GLOBALIZATION
KEY CONCEPTS IN
GLOBALIZATION
1. Migration
2. Communication and Transportation
3. Integration of Economies – Labor, Capital
and movement of Goods and Services world
wide
4. Government Policies/ Foreign Policies
5. Socio-Cultural Issues (Technology,
Ecology, Cultural Diaspora)
PERSPECTIVES IN
GLOBALIZATION
 1. Economistic Perspective –
emphasizes the way
international economic
exchanges are increasing in
frequency, creating greater
interdependence between
national economies and
facilitating their integration.
PERSPECTIVES IN
GLOBALIZATION
 2. Multi Dimensional Perspective – recognizes
that globalization is driven primarily by
economic forces through enhanced
communication, technology, movement and
political cooperation.
 Ex. Mass Media (Public Utilities and Private
Social Media sites) and Mass Travel
(Passports, Citizenship, Security regulations)
PERSPECTIVES IN
GLOBALIZATION
 3. Cosmopolitan Perspective – posits that the
world/states can cooperate through multi
lateral institutions, international law, human
rights convention to promote well being and
social justice.
 Ex. United Nations, International Courts,
International laws and treaties.
PERSPECTIVES IN
GLOBALIZATION
 4. Unipolar Perspective – amounts to the
exercise of imperial power.
 Ex. “Benevolent Assimilation” or “benevolent
domination” US exercise of economic,
diplomatic and military power to protect US
interests and values.
SOURCES: TEXT
 (“Ideologies of Globalization” by Manfred
Steger and “Driving Forces of
Globalization” by Irina Kozarova )
 Retrieved from:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/modern
ization
SOURCE: IMAGES
 Retrieved from:
http://www.manning.pitt.edu/pdf/2014.Afri
casPlace-JGS.pdf
 Retrieved from:
 http://www.csun.edu/~hbsoc126/soc1/chap
ter%206%20outline.pdf
 Retrieved from:
 https://twitter.com/b2bimport/status/1145
986217688698880
SOURCES: IMAGES
Retrieved from:
https://laboureconomics.wordpress.com/2012/05/
14/causes-and-effects-of-globalization-6/
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/c2/bc/35c2bc2
24b5c113610db1bec8975590e.jpg
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/opinio
n/cartoons/2012/10/23/editorial-cartoons-on-educ
ation/1652609/
SOURCES: IMAGES
 Retrieved from:
 https://www.pinterest.ph/zfire0025/alien-h
umor/
 https://yazigibloggers.files.wordpress.com/2
011/10/globalized-chappatte744.jpg
 https://economywise.wordpress.com/2015/0
3/20/is-globalization-good-for-the-economy/
 http://www.americanyawp.com/text/wp-co
ntent/uploads/Free_from_Spanish.jpg
SOURCES: IMAGES
 https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/
11/WS5e681db6a31012821727df7d.html
 https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-v
ector/travel-around-the-world-airplane-lugga
ge-passport-vector-14855364
 https://www.adweek.com/creativity/inside-
robloxs-vision-for-its-metaverse/

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GLOBALIZATION

Concepts, Characteristics and Perspectives

Prepared by: Prof. Mimosa N. Joson

 It describes a wide phenomena including, a

 It is derived from the word

 All the features that are associated with

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