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    This document provides an overview of key concepts related to globalization, including: 1. Definitions and perspectives of globalization from various scholars, seeing it as an increasing interdependence and interconnectedness between peoples and economies globally. 2. The concept of globalization involving growing flows of goods, services, technology, investment, people and information across borders due to factors like multinational companies and international trade. 3. Metaphors used to describe globalization, such as solids representing barriers to movement that are melting into more fluid and porous flows of people and things globally.

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    The

    Contemporary
    GLOBALIZATION

    World

    Lecturer: Miss Christine B. Tenorio


    Topics to be discuss….

    • House/Class rule
    Here’s the
    coverage of • Google Classroom
    our course • Class Schedule
    orientation
    today/evening. • The Contemporary
    World Syllabi
    Course Description
    This course introduces to the students
    the contemporary world by examining
    the multifaceted phenomenon of
    globalization. Using the various
    disciplines of the social sciences, it
    examines the economic, social, political,
    technological, and other transformations
    that have created an increasing
    awareness of the interconnectedness of
    peoples and places around the globe.
    This course provides an overview of the
    various peace negotiations in global
    governance and sustainable
    development. Beyond exposing the
    students to the world outside the
    Philippines, it seeks to inculcate a sense
    of global citizenship that upholds peace-
    loving and global responsibility.
    Globalization Interdependence
    Globalization is the word used
    to described the growing
    interdependence of the world’s Basic Definition:
    economies, cultures and
    populations, brought about the ü The perspective of the
    cross-border trade in goods and person who defines
    services, technology, and flow globalization shapes its
    of investment, people and definition.
    information. ü Globalization is a Reality.
    ü According to Cesare Poppi:

    Globalization
    Globalization is a debate and
    the debate is globalization.
    Globalization
    Is important because it is one of
    the most powerful forces
    affecting the modern world, so
    much so that it can be difficult
    to make sense of the world
    without understanding
    globalization.
    Basic Human
    Needs

    1.Commerce 2. Religion
    3. Politics 4. Warfare

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    Concept of Globalization
    Lorenz is a college student. He drinks Milo
    with his usual corned beef, egg and rice for
    breakfast every school. While eating, he
    watches Cartoon Network on cable TV to
    make his morning light. Afterwards, he
    rushes to brush his teeth using Colgate.
    Then, he is good to go. Once inside the
    university campus, he sends an I-am-at-
    school message to his mom using his new
    iPhone X. Likewise, he sends his “Hi”
    message to his special friend via his
    Samsung Galaxy S9. More so, Lorenz and
    his friends love to wear Vans shoes and use
    Vans schoolbags. They love to hang out in
    their favourite fast food store, McDonalds,
    and happily eat their favourite burger,
    chicken nuggets, and Coke float. He talks to
    his dad who works in Dubai via Skype on
    Monday, Thursday, and Sunday night.
    What really is
    One thing is sure: globalization is a Introduction to Globalization
    phenomenon. It is something that is by Manfred Steger
    difficult to understand. Reich (1998)
    says it is term whose meaning is
    obscure. Steger (2005) uses the term globality to globalization?
    mean globalization as a condition. For
    him, globality denote “future social
    Schottle (1995) states that condition characterized by thick

    What really is globalization?


    “globalization stands for quite a economic, political, and cultural
    large public spread across the interconnections and global flows that
    world as one of the defining terms make currently existing political
    of the 20th century social borders and economic barriers
    consciousness. The term is often irrelevant. The condition that many
    distinguished more by what it is are now experiencing is a result of the
    not, rather than by what it is. existence of multinational and
    Rosenau (1996) recognizes such a transnational companies, international
    tendency when he states that trading, economic blocks, the United
    Nation (UN), the European Union
    (EU), and the like.
    Globalization
    For McGrew (1990), globalization is
    described as something that is
    comprised of multiple sameness and
    interconnectedness that go beyond the
    nation-states. It is a process in which
    individuals and organizations in one
    part of the world are affected by the
    activities, affairs, and convictions on
    another part of the globe.

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    Metaphors of Globalization: Solid, Liquid
    and Flows

    Solid
    The epochs that preceded today’s globalization paved
    way for people, things, information, and places to
    harden over time. Consequently, they have limited
    mobility (Ritzer, 2015). The social relationship and
    objects remained they were created. Solidity also
    refers to barriers that prevent or make difficult the
    movement of things. Furthermore, solids can either
    be natural or manmade. Examples of natural solids
    are landforms and bodies of water.
    Examples

    Man-made An imaginary line such as the


    barriers nine-dash line used by the
    include the People’s Republic of China in
    Great Wall of their claim to the South China
    Sea is an example of modern
    China and man-made solid. This creates
    Berlin Wall limited access of Filipino
    fishers to the South China
    Sea.
    Liquid,
    As a state of matter, takes that shape of its container. Moreover,
    For example, videos uploaded on YouTube or Facebook are
    liquid are not fixed. Liquidity: therefore, refers to the increasing unstoppable once they become viral. The so-called Internet
    ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the sensations become famous not only in their homeland but also to
    contemporary world. First, today’s liquid phenomena change the entire world.
    quickly and their aspects spatial and temporal, are in continuous
    fluctuation. This means that space and time are crucial elements of
    globalization.

    Examples

    In global finance, for


    instance changes in the
    stock market are as
    matter of second.
    Another characteristic
    of liquid phenomena is
    that their movements is
    difficult stop.

    Finally, the forces (the liquid ones) made political boundaries


    more permeable to the flow of people and things (Cartier,
    2001). This brings us to what Ritzer (2015, p.6) regarded as the
    most important characteristic of liquid: it “tends to melts
    whatever stands in its paths (especially solids). The clearest
    example is the decline, if not death, of the nation-state.
    Flows

    The previous section described the melting process of As Landler (2008,p. c1) put it: “In global financial system, national
    solid phenomena followed by the increase in liquidity. It borders are porous.” This means that a financial crisis in a given
    is only logical to discuss the flows of liquid phenomena. country can bring ramifications to other regions of the world.
    Flows are the movement of people, things, places, and
    information brought by the growing “porosity” of global
    limitations (Ritzer, 2015).

    Aside from local dishes,


    many of us are fond of
    eating sushi, ramen,
    hamburger, and French
    fries- foods introduced
    to us by foreign
    cultures. Clearly, foods
    are being globalized.
    Globalization as Ideology

    For some ideology is dogmatic while


    others, it connotes political sophistication.
    Ideology may also refer to the dominant
    modes of thought (Gerring, 1997). Steger
    (2014b) defines ideology as a system of
    widely shared ideas, patterned beliefs,
    guiding norms and values, and ideals
    accepted as truth by some groups. An
    ideology is defined by core claims.
    1. globalization is about the liberalization
    and global integration of markets,
    second
    2. globalization is inevitable and
    irreversible,
    3. nobody is in charge of globalization;
    4. globalization benefits everyone; and
    5. globalization furthers the spread of
    democracy in the world.
    What is
    Glocalization? Market
    Glocalization is a combination
    of the words "globalization"
    and "localization." The term is
    used to describe a product or Basic Definition:
    service that is developed and
    distributed globally but is also ü A global product or
    adjusted to accommodate the service, something
    user or consumer in a local everyone needs and can
    market. get used out of, may be
    tailored to conform with

    Globalization
    local laws, customs, or
    consumer preferences.

    Understanding Glocalization

    Glocalization is the adaptation of


    global and international products,
    into the local contexts they're used
    and sold in. The term was coined
    in the Harvard Business Review, in
    1980, by sociologist Roland
    Robertson, who wrote that
    Products that are
    glocalization meant
    simultaneity—the co-presence—of
    "the glocalized
    both universalizing and
    particularizing tendencies." Glocalization works for
    companies with decentralized
    authority structures, and for
    companies that exist and
    compete in multiple, different
    cultural contexts.

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    TASK 1

    Create an image showing your connections to the rest of the world based on the music you listen
    to, using the following questions.
    ○ What’s the origin of the most recent song or piece of music that you listened to? (Identify
    the nationality of the creator of the music as well as the tradition to which it belongs.)
    ○ What technology do you most commonly use to listen to music?
    ○ Where is the technology made? Where is the company that owns the technology based?
    ○ How have you obtained music – online purchases or physically bought from retail
    outlets?
    Collect class data in relation to this and then make generalisations about any patterns in the data.
    Do certain countries predominate in terms of musical choices and/or owning or making
    technology? Which types of technology are most commonly used? Is online or physical shopping
    more popular?

    Create a visual representation of your generalisations (eg using graphs or a mapping tool)

    Use your visual generalisation to discuss: What is globalisation?


    Thanks!

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