Globalization: Debates, Definitions, and Perspectives

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Flashcards covering key terms, definitions, and perspectives from the lecture notes on globalization, including competing definitions, key actors, phases, and implications for social change.

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Globalization

The intensification of worldwide social relations linking distant localities, such that local happenings are shaped by events happening miles away and vice versa.

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End of geography

Hyperglobalist idea that globalization creates a borderless world of flows where borders are rendered meaningless.

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Westphalia

Treaty that popularized the modern concept of the nation-state with defined borders; used as a contrast to globalization’s eroding borders.

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Hyperglobalist

A perspective that views globalization as creating a borderless, interdependent world dominated by global flows.

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Liberal globalization

Belief that globalization privileges an economic and technological elite who control opportunities and technology.

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Global divide / digital divide

Unequal access to Internet connectivity and digital resources between countries, regions, and populations.

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Keyboard warrior

An online actor who, via the Internet, influences public opinion and mobilizes political action.

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Neoliberalism

A policy stance where market forces are trusted to determine major economic and social outcomes.

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Rejectionism

A response to globalization where people reject the status quo and seek alternative paths or policies.

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Reformism

A response to globalization involving reforms to public policies to benefit the majority.

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Transformism

A response to globalization leading to social change or revolution initiated by the people.

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Conservatives / Skeptics (globalization)

View globalization as Internationalization or Regionalization rather than a truly global phenomenon; state remains central.

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Transformational perspective

A critical view that sees old structures dissolving, the state becoming a 'space of flows,' and governance reengineered.

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Mobility, Hybridity, Complexity

Key features of globalization: rapid movement of people/ideas, cultural mixing (hybridity), and complex interdependencies.

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Global local nexus

The blending of global cultural flows with local experiences; global trends appear locally (e.g., global foods locally available).

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Thomas Friedman’s globalization 1.0, 2.0, 3.0

Friedman’s three eras: 1.0 (1492–c.1800) country-centered; 2.0 (c.1800–WWII) world shrinks via MNCs; 3.0 (present) flat world enabling individuals/small groups to go global.

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Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese explorer whose circumnavigation demonstrated early globalization and long-distance sea travel.

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Sun Eleven Institute definition

Globalization as interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments of different nations, driven by trade/investment and aided by information technology.

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Giddens’ definition of globalization

Intensification of worldwide social relations linking distant localities, shaping local events by distant happenings and vice versa.

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Stigger’s definition of globalization

Expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world time and space; multiple domains and both objective and subjective senses.