Name: Jerico Desalla Subject: Contemporary World

Course: BSEE -1 C

Assignment # 1”GLOBALIZATION”

DEFINITION 1:

“Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social Relations which link distant
localities in such a way that local happenings are Shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice
versa.”

- Anthony Giddens

DEFINITION 2:

“The critical point is that both sides of the coin of global cultural process Today are products of the
infinitely varied mutual contest of sameness and Difference on a stage characterized by radical
disjunctures between different Sorts of global flows and the uncertain landscapes created in and
through These disjunctures.” To

- Arjun Appadurai

DEFINITION 3:

“The characteristics of the globalization trend include the internationalizing Of production, the new
international division of labor, new migratory Movements from South to North, the new competitive
environment that Accelerates these processes, and the internationalizing of the state…making States
into agencies of the globalizing world.”

- Robert Cox

DEFINITION 4:

“The process of globalization suggests simultaneously two images of Culture. The first image entails the
extension outwards of a particular culture To its limit, the globe. Heterogeneous cultures become
incorporated and Integrated into a dominant culture which eventually covers the whole world. The
second image points to the compression of cultures. Things formerly Held apart are now brought into
contact and juxtaposition.”

- Mike Featherstone

DEFINITION 5:

“Globalization is a conceptualization of the international political economy Which suggests and believes
essentially that all economic activity, whether Local, regional or national, must be conducted within a
perspective and Attitude that constantly is global and worldwide in its scope.”

- Robert Spich