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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.
End of geography
Hyperglobalist idea that globalization creates a borderless world of flows where borders are rendered meaningless.
Westphalia
Treaty that popularized the modern concept of the nation-state with defined borders; used as a contrast to globalization’s eroding borders.
Hyperglobalist
A perspective that views globalization as creating a borderless, interdependent world dominated by global flows.
Liberal globalization
Belief that globalization privileges an economic and technological elite who control opportunities and technology.
Global divide / digital divide
Unequal access to Internet connectivity and digital resources between countries, regions, and populations.
Keyboard warrior
An online actor who, via the Internet, influences public opinion and mobilizes political action.
Neoliberalism
A policy stance where market forces are trusted to determine major economic and social outcomes.
Rejectionism
A response to globalization where people reject the status quo and seek alternative paths or policies.
Reformism
A response to globalization involving reforms to public policies to benefit the majority.
Transformism
A response to globalization leading to social change or revolution initiated by the people.
Conservatives / Skeptics (globalization)
View globalization as Internationalization or Regionalization rather than a truly global phenomenon; state remains central.
Transformational perspective
A critical view that sees old structures dissolving, the state becoming a 'space of flows,' and governance reengineered.
Mobility, Hybridity, Complexity
Key features of globalization: rapid movement of people/ideas, cultural mixing (hybridity), and complex interdependencies.
Global local nexus
The blending of global cultural flows with local experiences; global trends appear locally (e.g., global foods locally available).
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.
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer whose circumnavigation demonstrated early globalization and long-distance sea travel.
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.
Giddens’ definition of globalization
Intensification of worldwide social relations linking distant localities, shaping local events by distant happenings and vice versa.
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.