Globalization: A Very Short Introduction Ch. 1-4 Terms

Globality

a social condition characterized by tight global, economic, political, cultural, and environmental interconnections and flows challenging existing borders and boundaries. is not clearly around us because it is an evolving condition.

Global Imaginary

people’s growing consciousness of the world as a whole.

Globalisms

articulate global imaginary into policy agendas and political programs, help us decide whether globalization is a good or bad thing

Globalization

the multidimensional and uneven expansion of social relations and consciousness across world space and world time. about planetary interconnectivities, mobilities, and imaginations.

Glocalization

when subglobal spaces get entangled with the global, producing multi-spacial forms of human contact

Embodied Globalization

the interconnectedness and mobility of people across our planet. the oldest form of globalization.

Disembodied Globalization

characterized by the worldwide interconnectedness and mobility of ideas, data, and information. emerging as the dominant form of globalization in the 21st century.

Objectified Globalization

the interconnectedness and mobility of things and objects.

Institutional Globalization

the interconnectedness and mobility of social and political institutions.

The great divergence

apart of the prehistoric period, people and social connections coming from one single origin but moving and diversifying greatly over time and across geographical space.

Modernity

the period between the european renaissance and the height of the enlightenment.

The great convergence

different widely spaced people and social connections coming together more rapidly than ever before.

Economic globalization

the intensification and stretching of economic connections across the world.

Political globalization

the intensification and expansion of political interrelations around the globe.

Hyperglobalizers

believe globalization involves the decline of territorial boundaries, which helps us understand political and social change.