GE SOCSCI 4: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Lesson 1: What is Globalization?

Globalization (Manfred Steger)

It is the process of “expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and world-space.”

Expansion

It refers to “both the creation of new social networks and the multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographic boundaries.”

Intensification

It refers to the expansion, stretching, and acceleration of these networks.

World-Time and World-Space

• The final attributes to Steger’s definition of globalization, these relate to the way people perceive time and space.

• “Globalization processes do not occur merely at an objective, material level but they also involve the subjective plane of human consciousness.”

Globalism

If globalization represents the many processes that allow for the expansion and intensification of global connections, ____________is a widespread belief among powerful people that the global integration of economic markets is beneficial for everyone, since it spreads freedom and democracy across the world.

Scapes

If globalization represents the many processes that allow for the expansion and intensification of global connections, globalism is a widespread belief among powerful people that the global integration of economic markets is beneficial for everyone, since it spreads freedom and democracy across the world.

Ethnoscape

It refers to the global movement of people.

Mediascape

It refers to the flow of culture.

Technoscape

It refers to the circulation of mechanical goods and software.

Financescape

It denotes the global circulation of money.

Ideoscape

It is the realm where political ideas move around.