LAMO, NESLEY VIE D.

BS ENTREP 1-1  Seppuku or Harakiri (traditional suicide “belly

CONTEMPORARY WORLD cutting”)
 Around 100 corpses per month
 Definition of globalization – structuring  Most suicidal person who aren’t sure if they will
globalization commit suicide put tapes on their trail as a mark
 Concept of multidimensional reality (ex. Suicide)  Hang themselves or use sleeping pills
o Types of Suicide  Realization: Society has become more
1. Egoistic – psychology – depression complicated.
2. Altruistic – suicide cause by groups o They cannot cope up or adapt with the
and their expectations changes in society because of modern
3. Fatalistic – the thinking or mindset technology
of people provide it’s a solution to o We are now in fast pace industry
escape problems. o Man said that: “we have to coexist and
4. Anomic – selflessness – drastic think of each other.”
societal change (economic status or
crisis) ex. Rich  poor GLOBALIZATION SOME DESCRIPTION
 Japan  Aokigahara Forest  Highest rate of Introduction:
suicide  Urban poor communities: people living in
 Globalization of world economics these lands
 History of global politics – United Nations – o Governments that decide to welcome
World of Regions foreign investments on the belief that
 Regionalism – (affinity or cluster)  purpose they provide jobs and capital for
in increasing power (ASEAN & European Union) the country offer public lands as
 Capstone: Based on Discussion: “What does it factory or industrial sites.
mean to be a citizen of the world?”  Different people encounter globalization in
a variety of ways.
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION (read handout)  Globalization is a complex phenomenon
a. Sociological imagination that occurs at multiple levels.
 Structure – both a gift & a curse o It is an uneven process that affects
1. General to particular (ex. Poverty) people differently.
2. Seeing the strange in the familiar
 Globalization is a social structure GLOBALIZATION: A WORKING
 Sense of trap or powerless DEFINITION
 Practice of mistrust – when you look
at something, it’s not always as it seems  Manfred Steger
 look behind it o Globalization is a process of the
“expansion and intensification of
Social Facts or Social Relations social relations or facts and
 Reality is objective consciousness across world-time and
 Outside an individual & modifies it across world-space.”
o Example: Laws
 Intangible (ex. Falling in line) Expansion – both of creation
o Some people fall in line even though of new social networks
“they don’t know the REASON why they (relationship of an individual)
fall in line” and multiplication of
o The tangible is “those who people falling existing connections that cut
in line” across tradition political,
 Created by individual themselves become economic, cultural geographic
objectified reality boundaries.
 Connections occur at
b. Social Consciousness different levels.
 Reality is something not there; it can be  Ex. (social media)
recreated or negotiated.
 Social fact is patterned interactions. Intensification – refers to the
 Reality is emerging; there levels of expansion, stretching &
reality acceleration of these
o Multiple or different or networks.
multidimensional reality  Not only are global
 W.I. Thomas – If people define connections are
something as real, it becomes real as multiplying, BUT ALSO,
could as its consequence. they are becoming
o Fulfilling prophecy more closely-knit and
o Globalization has its dimensions expanding their
reach.
Socialization – processing the behavior of a child (girl  Ex. (strong financial
or boy) learning it in a way that is acceptable to society; market connecting
DOES NOT end London & New York;
electronic trading)
AOKIGAHARA FOREST
 Volume of trade
 Suicide Forest, Sea of Trees, Jukai (dried forest)
increases
 Base of Mt. Fuji (864 year erupted)
exponentially  since
 Old man – environmentalist – suicide patrol
 traders can now trade 4. Financescape – denotes global
at higher speeds. circulation of money
 Connection thus, is 5. Ideoscape – realm where political
accelerating, however ideas move around.
the world becomes o Although they intersect, these scapes
financially integrated have different logics.
 More intensified o They are thus distinct windows into the
 The final attribute of globalization’s definition broader phenomenon of globalization.
relates the way people perceive time and  Appadurai’s argument is simple: multiple
space. globalizations (social consciousness has
o Globalization “processes do not occur multidimensional reality).
merely at an objective, material level  Structure of this lesson: multidimensional
but they also involve the subjective understanding of globalization.
plane of human consciousness.”
Meaning: people begin to feel
that the world has become
smaller place & distance has
collapsed from thousands of
miles to just a mouse-click
away.
 SIX DEGREES OF
SEPARATION
THEORY
 Is the idea that
all living things
& everything
else in the
world are six or
fewer steps
away from each
other”
 measure of
distance
between person
or its
connections
 Steger points out that GLOBALIZATION IS
NOT EQUAL OR MUST BE DIFFERENTIATED
TO GLOBALISM
o Globalism is an ideology advocated to
the concept of globalization.
It is a widespread of belief
among powerful people that
the global integration of
economic markets is beneficial
for everyone, since it spread
freedom & democracy across
the world.
Common belief forwarded in
media & policy circles. It is
problematic.

CONCLUSION: GLOBALIZATION FROM THE

GROUND UP

 Globalization is so diffuse & almost fleeting.

 Globalization scholars called globalization
“uneven.”
 Globalization as “multiple globalizations”
instead of “just one process”.
o Arjun Appadurai, anthropologist,
there are “different kinds of
globalization occur on multiple and
intersecting dimensions of
integrations called “SCAPES”.
1. Ethnoscape – global movement of
the people.
2. Mediascape – flow of culture
3. Technoscape – circulation of
mechanical goods & software