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5. They also emphasize the rise of processes that cannot be framed within the
nation/inter-state system, whi ch lies at the core of the world system theory and
most traditional macro-social theories.
6. Social relations are 'lifted out' from local contexts of interactions and restructed
across time and spac
7. Ritzer, coined ij its particular homogenization approach, suggest that Weber's
process of rationalization became epitomized in the late 20th century in the
organization of McDonald's restaurants.
9. The theories under this school of thought treat globalization as a novel stage in
the evolving system of world capitalism.
10. Saskia Sassen's The Global City-larger body of literature on 'world cities' that
view world class cities as major production finances or coordinating of the world
economy.
11. This paradigm adheres to the idea that capitalism has created a global Enterprise
that swept the 19th century leading to the present time.
12. Globalization creates new forms of class cleavages globally and within countries,
regions,cities,and local communities
13. Its processes and practices are defined broadly as the multiple ties and
interactions-economic, political, social and cultural that links people communities
and institutions accross the borders of nation-states.
14. Rapid growth of mass media and resultant global cultural flows and images in
recent decades. *evoking the image famously put forth by Marshall Mcluhan of
the global village
15. For Wallerstein the appropriate unit of analysis for macro-social inquiry in the
modern world is neither class ,nor state/ society ,or country ,but the larger
historical system in which this categories are located.
16. In fact, this idea is articulated in the important collection of works of Manuel
Castells called “The Rise of the Network Society” (1996, 1997, 1998), which
features his ‘technologistic’ approachto globalization. He advanced the notion of
the “new economy”.
17. It says that globalization has its own unique features that distinguish it from
earlier epochs. And they focus on new global production and financial
system:bothe are seen to have superseded earlier national forms of capitalism.
18. Another key feature of this is the centrality and immanence of the inter-state
system and inter-state rivalry to the maintenance and reproduction of world-
system. It does not see any transcendence of the nation-state system or the
centrality of nation states as the principal component units of a larger global
system.
19. David Harvey, The Condition of Post Modernity- new burst of time space
compression produced by dynamics of capitalist development.
22. It is an instrumental rationality, the most efficient means to a given end. *Yet
results in an ever deeper substantive irrationality, such as alienation, waste, low
nutritional value and risk of health problems.
23. Scholars such as Levitt, Smith adn Guarnizo, and Portes and his colleagues
point to the novel character of it in the era of globalization.
24. Roland Robertson, "Glocalization" means ideas of home locality and community
have been extensively spread around the world and that the local is globalized.
25. The followers of this paradigm argue that globalization is not at all a new process
but something that is just continuing and evolving.
26. Sassen proposes new spatial order is emerging under globalization based on
global cities and led by New York, London, Tokyo.
27. In these paradigm lies the “theory of the global system” which esposed the
transnational practices (TNP’s) as operational categories for the analysis of
transnational phenomena.
28. Among recent immigrants, it is more intense than those of their historical
counterparts due to the speed and relatively inexpensive character of travel and
communications. The impact of these ties is increased by the global and national
context in which they occur.
29. The key structure of this paradigm is the division of the world into three great
regions; the core or powerful and developed centers, second is periphery and
third semi-periphery.
30. They also emphasize the rise of processes that cannot be framed within the
nation/inter-state system, whi ch lies at the core of the world system theory and
most traditional macro-social theories.