Activity #1: FREE ASSOCIATION | Personal Concept Map - Intro to Globalization

Important Concepts Related to Globalization

1. ECONOMIC – Economic globalization is the growth of economic alliance and affiliation of countries’ economies across the
world through the trading of goods, services, technologies and money. The countries economic situations can heavily
depend on other allied countries.
2. FINANCIAL – With financial globalization, global interconnectedness through a network of cities has become increasingly
relevant for developing markets as they link financially with the rest of the world.
3. POLITICAL – It is the idea that the entire world will eventually become a united nation.
4. ECOLOGICAL – It refers to the idea that earth should be treated as one single ecosystem. We are all living on the same
planet so we must protect it because what happens to the planet affects everybody on it.
5. GEOGRAPHICAL – It is possible to travel the world without barely any restrictions to help the world a better place for
everybody.
6. SOCIOLOGICAL – Refers to the many principles that certain attitudes/philosophy and ideal behaviors should exist
everywhere.
7. SOCIAL/CULTURAL – Social globalization regards to human cooperation and communication within a variety of cultural
communities, covering points like family, religion, education and work. This integration has the consequence of countries
losing their native culture.
8. TECHNOLOGICAL – Billions of people from around the world are connected by a variety of technologies that help them
to communicate with other people.

REAL LIFE EXAMPLE
Numerous companies
have become
transnational such as
Coca-Cola, McDonald’s,
etc.
It is the integration
and interdependence
of economics around
the world
Global interconnectedness
through a network of
cities has become REAL LIFE EXAMPLE
increasingly relevant for
developing markets as
It is the idea that
Stock markets
they link financially with the entire world will
the rest of the world. eventually become
a united nation.
FINANCIAL
REAL LIFE EXAMPLE

ECONOMIC POLITICAL United Nations

REAL LIFE EXAMPLE

World Wide Web

GLOBALIZATION It refers to the idea

that earth should
TECHNOLOGICAL The trend toward greater ECOLOGICAL be treated as one
interconnectedness and single ecosystem.
Billions of people from interdependence of all the
around the world are countries of the world.
connected by a variety
of technologies that help
them to communicate
REAL LIFE EXAMPLE
with other people.

GEOGRAPHICAL Climate change

SOCIAL/CULTURAL

REAL LIFE EXAMPLE SOCIOLOGICAL

Facebook is a huge
contributer to social
globalization because it has
connected many different
people from around the
world. Social globalization regards
to human cooperation and
communication within a
variety of cultural
communities, covering
points like family, religion,
education and work.
Refers to the many
REAL LIFE EXAMPLE principles that certain
attitudes/philosophy
and ideal behaviors
Democracy
should exist
everywhere.
It is possible to travel
the world without
barely any restrictions
to help the world a
better place for
REAL LIFE EXAMPLE everybody.
Global travel
 In simple words, globalization for me means the spreading of a business, culture or any technology on an international level. Based on my
concept map, globalization is how countries, people and businesses around the world are becoming more interconnected. The important concepts
related to globalization I listed are economic, financial, political, ecological, geographical, sociological, social/cultural, and technological. First is
economic, which means the growth of economies across this world through the trading of goods, services technologies and money. Its real-life
example is the numerous companies which have become transnational such as Walmart, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, etc. Next is financial, global
interconnectedness through a network of cities has become increasingly relevant for developing markets as they link financially with the rest of the
world. Its real-life example are the stock markets because when one stock market has a decline, all the other stock markets get affected negatively
too and so do the economies of the countries as a whole. Political, it is the idea that the entire world will eventually become a united nation and it is
more on international collaboration. Political real-life example is the United Nations because it is an intergovernmental organization that promotes
peace and international cooperation and security. Ecological, it refers to the idea that earth should be treated as one single ecosystem. We are all
living on the same planet so we must protect it because what happens to the planet affects everybody on it. The real-life example of ecological is the
climate change such a global warming which affects everybody on earth because we all live under one atmosphere. One nation can harm the planet
and it will affect everybody. Geographical, it is possible to travel the world without barely any restrictions to help the world a better place for
everybody. Global travel is the real-life example of this because it is used to be a major concern for people for any reasons. One reason was that it
was awfully inconvenient because it took so long to get to the desired designation. But with modern technologies such as the modern airplane, global
travel has never been any easier. Without the collaboration of other countries, global travel would not be possible. Sociological, people move all the
time too, mixing and integrating different societies. Its real-life example is democracy because democracy is a system of government which has its
own philosophy and ideal behaviors. Social/cultural, this regards to human cooperation and communication within a variety of cultural communities,
covering points like family, religion, education and work. This integration has the consequence of countries losing their native culture. Facebook is a
huge contributor to social globalization because it has connected many different people from around the world with other people thus passing on
the diverse cultures. We all know that the reasons why Facebook is so successful is because it connects people together and it is incredibly convenient
to use at the same time. Lastly, technological that many people from around the world are connected by a variety of technologies that help us to
communicate with other people. The real-life example of technological is the world wide web which unites people together in this world especially
with the various social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and etc.
All the examples that were presented affects us in our everyday life. Without globalization, our life would be completely different because
society has evolved in so many ways through the integration of other nations.