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❑ designed to introduce the varied

concepts and perspectives of
globalization;
❑ its effects to different social units and
different challenges posed by it.
 UNIT 1
❑deals with the introduction to
globalization where students
will be able to present their
own personal concepts of
globalization; and be able to
identify different underlying
philosophies out of these
 What is
Globalizatio
n
LESSON
1

INTRODUCTION TO
GLOBALIZATION
Process in which
people, ideas and
goods spread
throughout the
world, spurring more
interaction and
integration between
the world’s cultures, GLOBALIZAT
▪ Process of interaction and
integration among the people,
companies, and governments
of different nations;
▪ a process driven by international
trade and investment and aided by
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 It has effects on the
environment, on
culture, on political
systems, on
economic
development and
prosperity, and on
human physical
well-being in societies
Globalization
is about
growing
WORLDWID
E
CONNECTIVI
TY
 Today’s
globalization is
farther, faster,
cheaper, and
deeper in
compared to
earlier wave of
globalization
Many governments
One principal
have adopted
driver of
free-market globalization is
economic Technology.
systems, vastly Economic life is
increasing their own dramatically
productive potential
transformed by
and creating myriad
advancement in
new opportunities for
international trade information
and investment. technology
According to the International Monetary
Fund (IMF)
Globalization is the growing
economic interdependence
of countries worldwide
through increasing volume
and variety of cross border
transactions in goods and
services.
 Globalization is
an expansion,
and
intensification of
social relations
and
consciousness
across world
time and world
space. It is about
Manfred B. growing
Steger worldwide
connectivity
 Attributes,
Qualities or
Characteristi
cs of
Globalizati
on
 1
It involves both the
creation of new social
networks and the
multiplication of
existing connections
that cut across
traditional, political,
economic, cultural,
and geographical
boundaries.
Globalization is reflected in the expansion
and the stretching of social relations,
activities, and connections.
2
 SOCIAL
STRETCHING
Covered in the process of social stretching are:
A. Non-governmental organization
B. Commercial enterprises
C. Social clubs
D. Regional & global institutions
and associations
(UN, EU, ASEAN, Google and others)
3
Globalization
involves the
intensification
and
acceleration of
social
exchanges
Globalization processes
also involve the
subjective plane of
human consciousness. 4
Historical Periods of
Globalization
 THE PREHISTORIC
PERIOD
(10000 BCE-35)
❑ Contacts among hunters and
gatherers – who were spread
around the world – were
geographically limited;

❑ In this period due to absence

of advanced forms of
technology, globalization was
severely limited.
THE PRE-MODERN PERIOD
(3500 BCE- 1500 CE)
▪ Invention of writing and the
wheel were great social and
technological boosts that
moved globalization to a new
level;

▪ The invention of wheel in

addition to roads made the
transportation of people and
goods more efficient. On the
other hand, writing facilitated
 THE EARLY MODERN
PERIOD (1500-1750)
❑ Period between the
Enlightenment and the
Renaissance.
❑ European Enlightenment project
tried to achieve a universal form
of morality and law.
❑ This with the emergence of
European metropolitan centers
and unlimited material
accumulation which led to the
capitalist world system helped to
 THE MODERN
PERIOD (1750-1970)
❑ Innovations in
transportation and
communication technology.
❑ Population explosion, and
increase in migration led to
more cultural exchanges
and transformation in
traditional social patterns.
❑ Process of industrialization
 THE CONTEMPORARY
PERIOD
(FROM 1970 TO PRESENT)

The creation, expansion,

and acceleration of
worldwide
interdependencies
occurred in a dramatic way
and it was a kind of leap in