Introduction to the Study of

G LO BALI ZAT I O N
Learning Outcomes
🌏DIFFERENTIATE the 🌏COMPARE the different
competing concepts of approaches in the study of
globalization globalization

🌏IDENTIFY the underlying 🌏ANALYZE different world

philosophies of various issues through the lens of
definitions of globalization the different approaches in
the study of globalization

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ACTIVITY
Picture Analysis
THIS IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING…I PROMISE!

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WHAT DO THESE
PICTURES HAVE
IN COMMON?

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 Globalization
Global
Politics
Economy
Development
Culture
Society
Technology
Travel
Communication

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 WHAT IS
GLOBALIZATION
FOR?

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Mutual Understanding

OR

Conflict

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Central Questions
🌏What is globalization?

🌏What happens to state power?

-demise
-resurgence
-transformation

🌏Does it have limits to politics?

-how to “civilize” and “democratize”?

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What is
globalization?
🌏trend
🌏increasing interaction between people/groups of
people
🌏on a worldwide scale
🌏due to advances in transportation and
communications technology

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“THE WORLD IS GETTING
SMALLER EVERYDAY”

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🌏increasing integration of economies,
cultures, nation-states, and
communications across national
boundaries

🌏globalization is usually a byproduct of

technological changes

🌏zeitgeist of the 21st century

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3 Schools of Thought
HYPERGLOBALISTS SKEPTICS TRANSFORMATIONALISTS

Nation-states have Not historically Globalization as the driving

become unnatural unprecedented force

Hyperglobalist theory
Denationalization of Historically unprecedented
as fundamentally
economies
flawed and politically
naive
New forms of social ‘Massive shake-out’ of
organization Economic societies
supplanting the regionalization
state
No claims about the future
Governments – of globalization
Globalization as regulation and
primarily economic promotion
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3 Schools of Thought
HYPERGLOBALISTS SKEPTICS TRANSFORMATIONALISTS

Polarization of Growing Social division of world

winners and losers marginalization of the economy
Third World

Traditional welfare A three-tier global social

Global corporation is
options are structure
a myth
threadbare

International order Re-engineering of

Consumerist and solidarity are sovereignty
ideology Western projects

Transforming state power

Demise of the State as primary and world politics
nation-state actor in
internationalization
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Approaches according to discipline
Area studies
Political science
Economics
Sociology
Cultural studies
Development studies
Communication Studies

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For Political Science
Challenges to the nation-state:
- Strength of regional blocs
- Emergence of global political norms
- Emergence of corporations

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For Economics
-Increase in free trade (elimination of
trade barriers)

-Speed of trade

-Global economic organizations

-Regional trade blocs

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For Sociology
-“global village” due to technological
revolutions

-Communications technology is
shrinking our world

-Cultural imperialism

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For Development Studies
-Development according to the West

-$2 a day as non-poor

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Spatio-Temporal Approach
Extensity
Intensity
Velocity
Impact
 Attributes of Globalization

1. Various forms of connectivity

our office

2. Expansion and stretching of social relations

3. Intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and

activities

4. Occurs subjectively
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Attributes of Globalization
VARIOUS FORMS OF EXPANSION AND
CONNECTIVITY STRETCHING OF SOCIAL
RELATIONS
-Enabled by various
factors, pressures, media, -NGO
etc.
-Friendships/relations
-Diverse
-MNC
-Uneven (different degrees
of interconnection)
-Government associations
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Attributes of Globalization
INTENSIFICATION AND OCCURS SUBJECTIVELY
ACCELERATION OF
SOCIAL EXCHANGES
-We think about the world (ex.
AND ACTIVITIES
#prayforParis)

-From snail mail to FB

-We associate ourselves with
global trends (ex. K-pop)
-Live TV
-We feel some sense of
-Increased travel responsibility (ex. Climate
change)

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With globalization…
× The process is uneven

× There are winners, losers, and the in-

between

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 What is your
globalization story?

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 Thank You
Salamat
Terima Kasih
Gracias
Danke
谢谢
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