CONTEMPORARY WORLD: Globalization

We try to see a period of time and we believe in the contemporary world that the world is aging.

Is a process of interaction and integration
- People, companies, and the government interact with each other despite their differences and similarities they interact and thus if they're interaction is good or bad they are now being integrated as one.
Main drive of globalization is Economic Globalization.
It is discussed here that the process has its effect.
We believe that all of the things we do on earth have effects whether it is good or bad, positive or negative, all of the things on earth have effects.
- Effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and on human physical well-being in societies around the world.

Summary:

Globalization is;

About the liberalization and global integration of market;
- Freedom to choose, freedom to have businesses.
Inevitable and irreversible;
- We cannot erase, we cannot vanish globalization because globalization is here, we cannot go back to the time
Nobody is in charge of it;
Benefits everyone in the long run;
Furthers spread of democracy in the world; and
Require a global war on terror

Planetary process(es) involving increasing liquidity and growing multidirectional flows, as well as the structures they encounter and create.
We talk about processes
Social structures: Family, law, economy

“processes that interconnect individuals and social groups across specific geo‐political borders”
These are individuals
This is you creating a transnational of which we possess and we interconnect with each other despite our differences.
Differences of culture, tradition, language

The rise of new communities and formation of new social identities and relations that cannot be defined as nation‐ states.
which is the rise of new communities that creates new social identities in our today's world.

Summary:

We create people and that is TRANSNATIONAL therefore as we create people we create communities and that is TRANSNATIONALITY as we create community we create now a social condition which we call us GLOBALITY.

We use solidity to describe a limited mobility of people, things, information and places over time.
People, things, information, and places “harden” over time and therefore have limited mobility.
We have limited mobility because there are “barriers”.

The increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the global age.
We are the people that think information and places have an increase and are free flowing.
“Melting of solids”
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION

Heavy

Difficult to move
There is a limited move and if it is heavy we have difficulty move and if it is difficult to move therefore it is heavy.

Easier to move
If we don't have any burdens or barriers at all when we are moving therefore it is easier to move.

The movement of people, things, information, and places due, in part, to the increasing porosity of global barriers.
There are barriers of which flow affects.
Globalization flows from solid to liquid, from heavy to light.

Growing economic linkages at the global level.
Since we are experiencing economic globalization we are experiencing economic linkages on a global level.
- We link from one country to the other, one state to the other in terms of economy.
“The global capitalist system has produced a very uneven playing field” (Soros 2000). Why do we produce a very uneven playing field? Because we try to make social classes.
The “Great Wall of China” to the huge “digital divide” in the world today.

These barriers are embedded in our societies.
Social classes - we are divided because we are poor, middle class, rich.
Race - we all know that despite we fight for equality and equity we still have racial discrimination
Ethnicity - we tend to discriminate or we tend to look down on others ethnicity.
Gender -
Region of the world - north and south, the division of the world

Due to economic globalization we tend to have brain drains in the country.
- Why?
- Those good people or those excellent, smart people around the world or in our countries tend to go to the other countries and try to work there because there’s no work available here in our country and we become brain drain.
A global phenomenon and it most often takes the form of highly trained people leaving the south and moving to the north.

Urge for a better life.
Globalization stems, among other things, from a basic human urge to seek a better and more fulfilling life to a basic “urge” for a better life - trade (commerce), missionary work (religion), adventures and conquest (politics and warfare).
The origin of globalization started with the urge of human beings for a better life.

There have been other global ages in the past and that what now appears to be a new global age, or the high point of such an age, is destined to contract and disappear in the future.
Globalization cycles from one stage to the other.
There’s no finish or start on globalization.

The 4th and 7th centuries which witnessed the globalization of religions.
- The medieval period in which we discover christianity, islam, judaism and many other kinds of religion, the globalization of religion.
The 15th century highlighted by european colonial conquests.
- The start of the great european conquest.
- They colonize countries because of 3g’s.
- God - They want to spread christianity around the world.
- Gold - The spices of which they could get more spices that's the gold for them.
- Glory - The more countries they colonize they are more glorified.
- If they conquered one country to the other therefore they are the most powerful country.
The late 18th and early 19th centuries during which various intra-european wars led to globalization.
The mid 19th century to 1918; the heyday of european imperialism.
The post-world war 2 period.
The post-cold war period.
- They engage in war based on their knowledge and their technologies.

The emergence of the united states as the global power in the years following WW2.
The emergence of multinational corporations (MNCs)
The demise of the soviet union and the end of the cold war.