INTRODUCTION TO GLOBALIZATION

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OBJECTIVES
• Create a working definition of Globalization for the course.
• Differentiate the competing conceptions of globalization and
dimensions.
• Narrate a personal experience of globalization.
WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?
• Globalization is a term used to describe how trade and
technology have made the world into a more connected and
interdependent place. Globalization also captures in its scope
the economic and social changes that have come about as a
result. (Google)
 SCHOLARLY DEFINITIONS OF
GLOBALIZATION
David Held and Anthony Anthony Giddens
Mcgrew
• Pertains to the intensification of
• Refers to expanding scale, world – wide social relations which
growing magnitude, speeding up connects distance localities in
and deepening impact of such a way that local happenings
interregional flows and patterns of are shaped by events occurring
social interactions. It also refers to many miles away and vice versa.
the shift of transformation in the
scale of human organization that
links distant communities and
expands the reach of power
relations across the world’s major
regions and continents.
 SCHOLARLY DEFINITIONS OF
GLOBALIZATION
Manfred Steger
• Pertains to the multidimensional
set of social relations that create,
multiply, stretch, and intensify
worldwide social
interdependence and exchanges
while at the same time fostering in
people a growing awareness of
deepening connections between
the local and the distant.
Roland Robertson and
Kathleen White
• Composed of two directional
tendencies that include
increasing global consciousness.
Connectivity implies getting in
touch with the outside world while
consciousness means awareness
and familiarity with the
development in the international
community.
WHY STUDY GLOBALIZATION?
• Globalization is everywhere and is certainly impossible to
escape with.
• Encourages unity and harmony among several states and non
– state actors.
• Enhances the consciousness of individuals about global
community.
• Facilitates the linkages or connections of the different
institutions in the global community.
• Provides an understanding on the nature of competition in the
global community.
WHY STUDY GLOBALIZATION?
• Bridges the differences among the local communities of the
contemporary world.
• Promotes acceptable social practices or activities among the
different local communities.
• Provides an avenue to appreciate the changes and
developments that are sweeping the international community.
APPROACHES TO GLOBALIZATION
WORLD – SYSTEMS MODEL
• It is considered as a starting point
of the discussion of globalization in
the field of the social sciences.
Similar to other approaches, it
discusses the growth and progress
of capitalism that has engulfed
almost all facets of development
in the past several decades.
GLOBAL CULTURE MODEL
• It centers on the growth of and
expansion of culture across
national boundaries. It sees the
development of universal culture
as a potential problem to the
national identities of several
countries in the world.
APPROACHES TO GLOBALIZATION
GLOBAL SOCIETY MODEL
• It is another important approach
that heightens the discussion of
the concept of globalization
among the contemporary
scholars in the social science
discipline. This model believes that
the creation of a global society is
not impossible to happen in the
modem time.
GLOBAL CAPITALIT MODEL
• Equally important approach to
the study of globalization that
closely resembles the world
systems the world systems model.
Although similar in several
respects, the global capitalist
model sees capitalism as the peak
of the developments that
transpired among the different
countries in the world.
DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALIZATION
POLITICAL DIMENSION ECONOMIC DIMENSION
• Refers to the intensification and • This pertains to the increasing of
expansion of political interrelations integration of economies around
across the globe. the world, particularly through the
movement of goods, services,
• These processes raise an essential and capitals across the different
set of political issues pertaining to borders.
the principle of state sovereignty,
the growing impact of
intergovernmental organizations,
and the future prospect for both
regional and global governance.
DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALIZATION
IDEOLOGICAL DIMENSION
• A system of widely shared ideas,
patterned beliefs, guiding norms
and values, and ideal accepted
as truth by some groups.
• Ideologies present individuals a
more or less coherent picture of
the world not only as it is, but also
it ought to be.
SOCIAL DIMENSIONS
• Refers to the intensification and
expansion of the connections of
people in the international
community.
• The process of intensification and
expansion however happens
within the context of migration
and the continuous flow of culture
in any part of the globe.
DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALIZATION
ECOLOGICAL DIMENSION TECHNOLOGICAL DIMENSION
• Emphasizes the connection • It is considered as one of the
between contentious issues of the remarkable and influential
global environment and the developments – of the
different human activities in the phenomenon – in the 21 century.
st
international community.
• The increasing speed of
• Examines the influences of the technological diffusion across the
global alliances provides the global economy.
necessary respite to several
countries affected by these • It refers to the spread of
contentious issues. technologies around the globe,
and particularly from developed
• Relationship between to developing nations.
environment and globalization
GLOBALIZED PERSON
ACTIVITY
Instructions (Canva)
• Take a look back at the picture (from the previous slide).
• Answer the question: What makes the man in the picture as a globalized
person?
• List all the qualities that makes the man as a globalized person.