conworld people

Rolan Robertson

a professor in sociology at the uni of Aberdeen

the first person that defined globalization as the understanding of the world and the increased perception of the world.

Martin Albrow and Elizabeth King

Defined globalization as all those process by which the world are incorporated into a single world society.

Thomas Larson

"the process of the world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer. It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit with somebody on the other side of the world."

Martin Khor

the former President of the Third World Network (TWN) regarded globalization as colonization.

Thomas Friedman

"The inexorable integration of markets, transportation systems, and communication systems to a degree never witnessed before- in a way that enables corporations, countries, and individuals to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper, and cheaper than ever before

Manfred Steger

“The term globalization should be used to refer to a set of social processes that are thought to transform our present social condition into one globality. • "The expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and across world-space