Contemporary Reviewer

Globalization and Media

The partnership between globalization and media creates a sense of interconnectedness among people worldwide, leading to the concept of a global village.

Script Writing

The principal technology for storing and communicating information, evolving from clay tokens to pictography, syllabary, and alphabet, facilitating globalization through the dissemination of knowledge.

The Printing Press

Invented by Johannes Gutenberg, revolutionized society by standardizing knowledge, challenging authority, and fostering literacy, contributing to globalization and knowledge dissemination.

Electronic Media

Includes television, radio, internet, and other electronic technologies that revolutionized globalization processes, opening new perspectives and defining moments in global interconnectedness.

Digital Media

Refers to electronic devices like computers influencing globalization by providing access to global markets, transforming cultural practices, and facilitating communication and exchange of ideas.

Popular Music and Globalization

Popular music plays a significant role in reinforcing cultural boundaries and identity, reflecting the complex dynamics of globalization and serving as a mobile capital in the global marketplace.

The Globalization of Religion

Globalization impacts religions by encouraging religious pluralism, diasporas, and transnational ties, fostering noninstitutionalized religious manifestations and the development of religion as a political and cultural resource.

Transnational Religion and Multiple Glocalization

Describes the deterritorialization of religion, blending religious universalism and local particularism in immigrant communities, leading to processes like indigenization, vernacularization, nationalization, and transnationalization in the context of glocal religion.

Global City

An urban center with significant competitive advantages that serves as a hub within a globalized economic system, originating from research in the 1980s on the common characteristics of important cities.

World Cities

Urban centers like New York, London, and Tokyo identified as global cities due to their economic significance and control over the world's political economy.

Indicators of a Global City

Characteristics include being seats of economic power, centers of authority, political influence, higher learning and culture, economic opportunities, and competitiveness.

Cities as Engines of Globalization

Urban areas are social magnets and nodes of global networks, with populations over five million identified as global cities, contributing to urban growth and denser metropolitan communities.

Demography

The study of populations, including size, density, fertility, mortality, growth, age distribution, migration, and vital statistics, influenced by social and economic conditions.

Demographic Transition

Transition from high to low fertility and mortality rates, starting in Europe in the 1700s, affecting global population growth and life expectancy disparities between regions.

Dependency Ratio

The ratio of the economically dependent part of the population to the economically productive part.

Demographic Transition Theory

A theory suggesting that populations go through predictable stages of high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.

Internal Migration

Movement of people within one country from one area to another.

International Migration

Movement of people across international borders from one country to another.

Push Factors

Factors that drive people to leave their current location and migrate elsewhere.

Pull Factors

Factors that attract people to move into a new location.

Cultural Factor

A compelling push factor that forces people to emigrate from a country.

Socio-political Factor

Factors like political instability and lack of socio-political rights that initiate migration activities.

Environmental Factor

Factors like natural disasters or worsening environmental conditions that influence population movement.

Economic Factors

Factors related to economic development that influence migration patterns and impact economies.

Sustainable Development

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Climate Change

Refers to the hazardous effects on the environment that pose a major restriction in achieving sustainability.

Food Security

Exists when all people have access to adequate, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs for an active and healthy life.

Four Dimensions of Food Security

Includes food access, food use, availability, and stability to ensure adequate and nutritious food for all.

Global Food Security Challenges

Include issues like rapid population growth, climate change, depletion of natural resources, and rising demand for biofuels.

Environmental Challenges

Include pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and climate change, affecting food security and human health.

United Nations Sustainable Goals (SDGs)

Include ending hunger, achieving food security, and promoting sustainable agriculture by 2030 as part of the global agenda.