Introduction to the Study of Globalization Lecture Notes

A comprehensive vocabulary set covering the definitions, metaphors, attributes, theories, and historical perspectives of globalization based on the provided lecture notes.

Globalization (Larsson, 2001)

The process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer, and the increasing ease of interaction for mutual benefit.

Globalization (Khor, 1990s)

A concept regarded primarily as colonization.

Globalization (Ohmae, 1992)

A broad and inclusive definition describing the onset of the borderless world.

Globalization (Cox)

A narrow and exclusive definition focused on the internationalizing of production, the new international division of labor, and states becoming agencies of the globalizing world.

Globalization (Ritzer, 2015)

A transplanetary process involving increasing liquidity and growing multidirectional flows of people, objects, places, and information.

Global Age (Albrow, 1996)

The period where the reality and omnipresence of globalization make us see ourselves as part of a single shared era.

Connectivity

An attribute of globalization that is diverse (economic, political, cultural), enabled by various factors/media, and uneven in its degree of interconnection.

Expansion and Stretching of Social Relations

An attribute of globalization seen through the growth of NGOs, friendships, government associations, and Multi-National/Trans-National Corporations.

Intensification and Acceleration of Social Exchanges

The shift from snail mail to platforms like Facebook, live television, and increased travel via cheap flights.

Subjective Globalization

The way people think about the world, associate with global trends like K-Pop, and feel responsibility for global issues like climate change.

Solidity

Barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things, such as natural landforms or man-made structures like the Great Wall of China and Berlin Wall.

Liquid

The metaphor for the increasing ease of movement of people, information, and finance in the contemporary world where space and time are crucial.

Flows

The movement of people, things, places, and information brought by the growing porosity of global limitations.

Homogeneity

The increasing sameness in the world as cultural inputs and economic factors create common practices and similar forms of government.

Cultural Imperialism

A process linked to homogeneity where a given culture influences other cultures, such as Americanization or the one-size-fits-all approach of the IMF.

Heterogeneity

The creation of various cultural practices and new economies resulting from the interaction of elements from different societies.

Glocalization

The product of global forces interacting with local factors or specific geographic areas.

Perspective 1: Hardwired

The theory by Nayan Chanda (2007) that globalization stems from a basic human need to make lives better (commerce, religion, politics, warfare).

Perspective 2: Cycles

The belief that globalization is a long-term cyclical process where global ages appear, disappear, and reappear over time.

Perspective 3: Epoch

The framework by Therborn (2000) identifying six great waves of globalization, starting with the globalization of religion in the 4th-7th centuries.

Perspective 4: Events

A view that links globalization to specific happenings such as Roman conquests, voyages of discovery, or the founding of the modern Internet in 1988.

Perspective 5: Broader, More Recent Changes

Focuses on late 20th-century developments like the emergence of the US as the global power post-WWII and the demise of the Soviet Union.

Parochialism

A narrow outlook that this course seeks to avoid by teaching students about the wider world and global citizenship.

OFW Statistics (2015)

The amount recorded as 6,092 Filipinos leaving per day, illustrating the increasing interaction between Filipinos and the world.