LECTURE 1

 Coined in the latter part of the 20th century

 ROOT WORD:
Globe - Latin globus
ASSOCIATED WORD DATE OF ORIGIN OF USE
Globe 1600’s
Global Late 1600’s
- use as “world-scale” Late 1800’s
Globalize/Globalism 1940’s
Globalization (as a 1959
process)
Globality (as a condition) 1980’s
LANGUAGE
Arabic lil’ alam
Chinese quanqiuhua
French mondialisation
Russian globalizatsia
Spanish Globalización
Swahili
Finnish globalisaatio
Nepalese bishwavyapikaran
Timorese luan bo’ot

And the list goes on …..

 Globalization represents the process by
which the geographical distance becomes
a less important factor in the
establishment and development of
transborder relations of economic,
political and socio-cultural origin.
 Globalization bridges the gaps.
 Events, decisions, and activities in one part
of the world come to have significant
consequences for individuals and
communities in a distance.
 2 DISTINCT PHENOMENA OF GLOBALIZATION:

1. SCOPE (STRETCHING)
2. INTENSITY (DEEPENING)

SPACE
 INTENSIFY!
 Interaction
 Interconnectedness
 Interdependence