CONCEPTUALIZIN

G
GLOBALIZATION
OBJECTIVE:

INTRODUCE THE
MAJOR CONCEPTS
OF THE COURSE

DEFINE KEY
TERMINOLOGIES
 Planetary process(es) involving
1. increasing liquidity and growing
GLOBALIZATIO multidirectional flows of people,
N: things, information, as well as the
structures they encounter and create.
 processes that interconnect
2. individuals and social
TRANSNATIONALISM groups across specific
geopolitical borders.
EXAMPLES:
3. GLOBALITY:

omnipresence of the process of globalization.

 people, things,
information, and
places “harden”
4. SOLID/SOLIDITY:
over time and
therefore have
limited mobility.
 the increasing ease
of movement of
people, things,
information, and
places in the global
5. LIQUID/LIQUIDITY: age.
SOLID LIQUID
 The movement of people, things,
information, and places due, in part,
6. FLOWS: to the increasing porosity of global
barriers.
INFORMATION
7. HEAVY & LIGHT
Heavy : characterized by that which is difficult to move.

Light : refers to the later advances, especially in technology,

which made goods, people, and places “lighter” or easier to
move.
Preindustrial
societies
8. EMERGING ECONOMIES:
The less developed countries whose recent
industrialization fuels their economic
growth and political influence.
 Mexico
 Brazil
 Chile
 Russia
 China
 India, and
 Vietnam
 A CORPORATION
THAT OPERATES IN
MORE THAN TWO
COUNTRIES

9. MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION
(MNC):
10. TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION

 The shrinking of space and the reduction of the

time required by a wide range of processes,
brought about by changes in transportation and
communication technologies.