SOC. SCI.

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(NGEC 3) Contemporary World
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MR. LEO C. PEPITO

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 Introduction to
Globalization

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Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the midshipmen are expected to:

1.Define globalization;
2.Discus the importance of globalization;
3.Discuss the positive and negative effects of
globalization; Discuss the meaning of history

2.Differentiate primary and secondary sources

3. Introduce the lesson by presenting different illustrations.
4. Analyze primary and secondary sources.

4.Discuss the effects of globalization to our daily

life.

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What is a simple definition of globalization?

Globalization is the word used to describe the

growing interdependence of the world's
economies, cultures, and populations, brought
about by cross-border trade in goods and
services, technology, and flows of investment,
people, and information.

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Why is globalization important?

Globalization changes the way
nations, businesses and people
interact. Specifically, it changes the
nature of economic activity among
nations, expanding trade, opening
global supply chains and providing
access to natural resources and
labor markets.
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Why is globalization defined?

In the marketing context,

globalization means the creation
of products or services for the
global market by adapting them
to local cultures.

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What globalization means to me?

Globalization refers to integration

between people, companies, and
governments. Most noteworthy, this
integration occurs on a global scale.
Furthermore, it is the process of
expanding the business all over the
world. In Globalization, many
businesses expand globally and
assume an international image.
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What are the 3 causes of
globalization?

The most important causes of

globalization differ among the
three major components of
international market
integration: trade, multinational
production, and international
finance.
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What are the 3 negative effects of
globalization?

It has had a few adverse effects on

developed countries. Some
adverse consequences of
globalization include terrorism,
job insecurity, currency
fluctuation, and price instability.

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How globalization affects our daily life?

In many instances, quality of life has

improved for those who live in
developing nations. For many
developing nations, globalization has
led to an improvement in standard of
living through improved roads and
transportation, improved health care,
and improved education due to the
global expansion of corporations.

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What are the advantages of
globalization?

 Economic Growth. It's widely believed that

increased globalization leads to greater
economic growth for all parties. ...
 Increased Global Cooperation. ...
 Increased Cross-Border Investment. ...
 Increased Competition. ...
 Disproportionate Growth. ...
 Environmental Concerns.

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What are some examples of globalization
in everyday life?

Travel and tourism allows for the

globalization of many things, like the
exchange of money, cultures, ideas
and knowledge. There are countless
options to make travel more affordable,
including budget airlines and low-rate
hostels. This allows people to explore
further and wider than was ever
possible before.

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What is globalization and
glocalization?
Glocalization is a combination
of the words "globalization"
and "localization." The term is
used to describe a product or
service that is developed and
distributed globally but is also
adjusted to accommodate the
user or consumer in a local
market.
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What metaphor best describe
globalization?

Network society - It is used to depict

that globalization is a network of
different societies that interact with
each other. Global marketplace - It
depicts that globalization leads to a big
marketplace where globally all
countries participate.

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 MEANING AND RELEVANCE OF HISTORY
What is economic globalization
summary?
Economic "globalization" is a historical
process, the result of human
innovation and technological
progress. It refers to the increasing
integration of economies around the
world, particularly through the
movement of goods, services, and
capital across borders.

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How does globalization affect your life
as a student?

Globalization enhances the student's

ability to acquire and utilize
knowledge. Globalization enhances
the ability of learners to access,
assess, adapt, and apply knowledge, to
think independently to exercise
appropriate judgment and to
collaborate with others to make sense
of new situations.

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What are the 5 concepts of technology?

Elements of economic
globalization

The growth in cross-border

economic activities takes five
principal forms: (1) international
trade; (2) foreign direct
investment; (3) capital market
flows; (4) migration (movement
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of labor); and (5) diffusion of
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What are the 7 major types of
globalization?

The 7 major types of

globalization are:
 Social globalization.
 Economic globalization.
 Technological globalization.
 Financial globalization.
 Political globalization.
 Cultural globalization.
 Ecological
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What are the positive and negative
effects of globalization?

Some argue that globalization

is a positive development as
it will give rise to new
industries and more jobs in
developing countries. Others
say globalization is negative in
that it will force poorer countries
of the world to do whatever the
big developed countries tell
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them to do.
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Why is globalization harmful?

While it can benefit nations,

there are also several negative
effects of globalization. Cons of
globalization include: Unequal
economic growth. While
globalization tends to increase
economic growth for many
countries, the growth isn't equal
—richer countries often benefit
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more than developing countries.
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What are the risks of globalization?

7 Risks for the Global Economy

 Business as Usual. ...
 #1: Global Excess Liquidity. ...
 #2: Growing Debt. ...
 #3: Increasing Protectionism. ...
 #4: Escalation of Geopolitical
Conflicts. ...
 #5: Increase in Social
Instabilities. ...
 #6:06Rising
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Is globalization helping or
harming the world?
Here's what I found
out: Globalization produces
both winners and losers
among the poor. Some studies
show that globalization has
been associated with rising
inequality, because the poor do
not always share in the gains
from trade.
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How does globalization affect
your family?
Increased migration means
more families are stretched
across national borders and
have family members living
abroad, which in turn reinforces
globalization as more families
maintain contacts through
media and physical visits.
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Why should globalization matter
to you?
Globalization has benefits that cover
many different areas. It reciprocally
developed economies all over the
world and increased cultural
exchanges. It also allowed financial
exchanges between companies,
changing the paradigm of work. Many
people are nowadays citizens of the
world.

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Does globalization benefit everyone?

According to a new study measuring

the gains brought about by
globalization, everybody wins —
especially those in industrialized
countries. Yet the gains are unevenly
distributed, both between and within
countries.

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How can we solve globalization?

Solving the Problems of

Globalization
First, invest in understanding
customers and the problems
customers experience in their local
context.
Second, reach across borders to
learn best practices and innovative
ideas from people who have dealt
with similar problems in a different
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What are the most important moral
challenges of globalization?

The moral challenge of globalization

demands a fundamental change in
values, focusing on human security,
democracy, and economic justice.
By thinking globally and acting
collectively, each of us must
contribute to building a more
compassionate, humane, and
peaceful world.

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APPADURAI’S KINDS OF GLOBALIZATION

Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has

discussed this in terms of five specific
“scapes” or flows: ethnoscapes,
technoscapes, ideoscapes,
financescapes, and mediascapes.

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APPADURAI’S KINDS OF GLOBALIZATION

What is Ethnoscape example?

Ethnoscapes & Mediascapes

Ethnoscapes refers to people,

specifically those who move from one
place to another. Examples of such
individuals include tourists, exiles,
refugees, immigrants, students
studying abroad, temporary
workers abroad, and so on. As
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people move around for any reason,
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What is Ideoscape example?

Lesson Summary

As we learned, ideoscapes are combinations

of images and the resultant ideas expressed
therein, often used for political purposes.
Examples of ideoscapes include the notions
of democracy, human-rights, welfare, and
so on.

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What is Ethnoscape in globalization?

The ethnoscape refers to human

migration, the flow of people
across boundaries. This includes
migrants, refugees, exiles, and
tourists, among other moving
individuals and groups, all of whom
appear to affect the politics of (and
between) nations to a considerable
degree.

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What is the difference between
Ethnoscape and Mediascape?
is that mediascape is the
metaphorical landscape of
trends, tastes, etc promoted
by the media while
ethnoscape is a transnational
distribution of correlated
people.

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What is Ideoscape globalization?

Abstract. Ideoscape is a term

introduced by Arjun Appadurai (1990)
to represent one of the five
contemporary global cultural flows
that is constitutive of linked images
and ideas related to the political
discourses of the Enlightenment such
as sovereignty, freedom, rights,
welfare, representation, and
democracy.
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What is an example of Financescape?

Examples include cash or electronic

equivalents (like bank transfers),
stocks via stock exchanges,
currencies via the currency
exchanges, commodities via the
commodities markets, and in today's
era things like decentralized virtual
currencies, such as Bitcoin via peer-
to-peer mechanisms, as well as
exchanges.
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What is Technoscape in
globalization?
Technoscapes, in short, refers to the
global arrangement and movement
of all sorts of technology across
worldwide boundaries. They're part
of the five different dimensions of
global cultural flows proposed by
anthropologist Arjun Appadurai. This
area focuses on the technology that
we all use.

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What are technoscapes
examples?
Technoscape refers to flows of
technology. Apple's iPhone is
just one example of how the
movement of technologies
across boundaries can radically
affect day-to-day life for people
all along the commodity chain.

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 Summary of the Lesson
Video Film Presentation:

Why is history important?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGEO-fghzcw

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CLASS ACTIVITY:

Ask the students to write or narrate a

personal experience of globalization.

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References:
• The Contemporary World by: Lisandro E. Claudio and Patricio N. Abinales
•The SAGE Handbook of Globalization by Mandred B. Steger, Paul Battersby, Joseph
M. Siracusa (eds.) (z-lib.org).pdf (Weiss, Thomas)
•The Contemporary World
•toaz.info-contemporary-world-pr_a7eb699f3dc7672ec146e7c115bb164e.pdf (Jarque, maria Cristina)
•Global Citizen – Challenges and Responsibility in an Interconnected World
Aksel Braanen Steeri (Ed.)

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