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Introduction To Globalization

Globalization refers to the increasing interconnectedness between societies around the world through communication, travel, and economic exchange. It involves the stretching of social connections across borders and compression of the world into a single place. Key characteristics include the expansion and acceleration of social interactions across traditional boundaries, as well as increasing complexity, diversity, and hybridization. Globalization manifests through dimensions like communication, travel, production, politics, and everyday thinking. However, it has not impacted all places equally and does not necessarily lead to cultural homogenization or eliminate the importance of territoriality. Globalization should be understood as an ideological process with normative and political dimensions that shape perceptions of how the world is and should be.

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Introduction To Globalization

Globalization refers to the increasing interconnectedness between societies around the world through communication, travel, and economic exchange. It involves the stretching of social connections across borders and compression of the world into a single place. Key characteristics include the expansion and acceleration of social interactions across traditional boundaries, as well as increasing complexity, diversity, and hybridization. Globalization manifests through dimensions like communication, travel, production, politics, and everyday thinking. However, it has not impacted all places equally and does not necessarily lead to cultural homogenization or eliminate the importance of territoriality. Globalization should be understood as an ideological process with normative and political dimensions that shape perceptions of how the world is and should be.

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Globalization

• The process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter,


things moving closer.
• It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one
side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit with
somebody on the other side of the world.
• Martin Khor, former President of the Third World Networks in
Malaysia, regarded globalization as colonization.
Key Characteristics
• Expansion and stretching of social relations,
activities, and interdependencies.
• Intensification and acceleration of social exchanges
and activities.
• Compression of the world into a single place makes
the global frame of reference for human thought and
action.
• Creation of new, and multiplication of existing social
institutions, networks and activities that cut across
traditional political, economic, cultural and
geographic boundaries.
Key Characteristics
• Mobility, hybridity, complexity and fixity.
• Encounter, hybridity, resistance.
• Complexity and diversity.
• Homogenization and heterogenization.
• Global-local nexus (Glocalization)
• Inclusion and exclusion.
• Structures of common difference.
Manifestation
• Communication
• Travel
• Organization
• Ecological dimensions
• Production and money/finance
Manifestation

• Politics and governance


• Military sphere
• Health
• Law
• Norms
• Everyday thinking/ consciousness
QUALIFICATIONS
• Has not been experienced everywhere and to the same extent.
• Is not a straightforward process of cultural homogenization.
• Has not eliminated the significance of territoriality.
• Cannot be understood in terms of a single driving force.
• Is not a panacea (cure-all).
• Has to be understood as a normative process of meaning construction; has ideological and political dimensions.
The Ideological Dimensions
of Globalization
An Introduction
From its beginnings…
• In the 1990’s, much emphasis was given by globalists into the
ECONOMIC and TECHNOLOGICAL aspects of globalization.
• BUT we should avoid falling into the trap of
• As Malcom Waters observes, the increasing symbolically
mediated and reflexive character of today’s economic
exchanges suggests that both the and
arenas are becoming more and more activated and energetic.
(2011).
• Are deep-seated modes of understanding that
provide the most general limits/constrains within
which people imagine their collective/shared
existence.
• A concept referring to the people’s growing
consciousness of belonging to a global
community.
• Offers explanations of how “we” fit together, how
things go on between us, the expectations we
have of each other, and the deeper normative
• A background understanding that is normative
and factual in the sense of providing is both
with the standards of what passes as common
sense.
• Sets the pre-reflexive framework for our daily
routines and social repertoires. – Peirre
Bourdieu
* A system of widely shared ideas, patterned
beliefs,
guiding norms, values and ideals accepted as
*true by some
Provides groups. with a clear picture of the wor
individuals
not only as it is, but also as it ought to be.
* Also possesses a commanding and limiting
power over individuals by binding them over a set
of ideas, and norms.
According to Steger, is a hegemonic system of
ideas that makes normative claims about
GLOBALIZATION.

perpetuated by power elites


• Viewed as a social process embedded with
ideological dimensions filled with a range of
norms, claims, belief, and narratives about the
phenomenon itself.
• An expansion and intensification of social
relations and consciousness across world time
and space.
Intersecting dimensions of Globalization

“Scapes”

FTIME

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