REVIEWER IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD ✓scale

Globality ✓Causation
It signifies a social condition
✓ Chronology
characterized by the existence of
global economic, political, cultural, ✓ Impact
and environmental interconnections
and flows that make the currently ✓ Trajectories
existing borders and boundaries
✓policy outcomes
irrelevant.

Globalization ✓multi-dimensionality

This refers to a SET OF SOCIAL Is globalization a new phenomenon?

PROCESSES that are thought to Globalization as a phenomenon
transform our present social
condition into one of globality. At its The view that globalization is a
core, then, globalization is about phenomenon depends on how we
shifting forms of human contact. are willing to extend the chain of
The term "globalization" suggests a causation that resulted in those
sort of dynamism best captured by recent technologies and social
the notion of "development" or arrangements.
"unfolding" along discernible
Globalization as a phenomenon
patterns.
The conceptualization of The view that globalization is a
globalization as an ongoing process phenomenon depends on how we
rather than as a static condition. are willing to extend the chain of
causation that resulted in those
1 Four distinct qualities or characteristics THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
recent technologies and social
of Globalization
arrangements.
1. Globalization involves the
Prehistoric Period (10 000 – 3000 BCE)
CREATION of new and
MULTIPLICATION of existing social
networks and activities that
increasingly overcome traditional,
political, economic, cultural and
geographical boundaries.
2. Globalization is reflected in the
EXPANSION and the STRETCHING
of social relations, activities, and
interdependencies. Premodern Period (3500 – 1500 BCE)
3. Globalization involves the
INTENSIFICATION and
ACCELERATION of social
exchanges and activities
4. The creation, expansion, and
intensification of social
interconnections and
interdependencies do not occur
merely on an objective, material
level.

Globalization

Scholars' views on globalization:

 Early Modern Period (1500 – 1750)
Results of Industrialization
The term “modernity” has become
o Disparity in wealth and well-
associated with the 18th century
being
European Enlightenment project of
o Labor movements and
developing objective science,
socialist parties
achieving a universal form of
o Interstate rivalries intensified,
morality and law, and liberating
rational modes of thought and social result of mass migration,
organization from the perceived urbanization, colonial
irrationalities of myth, religion, and competition, excessive
political tyranny. liberalization of world trade
period between Enlightenment and Defeat of Axis powers in 1945 and
Renaissance the process of decolonization slowly
Values of individualism revived global flows and
Unlimited materal accumulation international exchanges
Economic European entrepreneurs o UN (global domestic
founded “capitalist world system” governance)

Modern Period (1750 – 1970) Contemporary world (1970-)

18th Century: Australia and the Worldwide inter-dependencies and

Pacific islands were slowly global exchanges
incorporated into the European- Dimension of Globalization
dominated network of political,
economic, and cultural exchange Economic dimension
the volume of world trade increased Political dimension
in 1850 and 1914 Cultural dimension
o multinational banks Social dimension
2 THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
o European-states subjected
global south to colonial rule 1. Economic dimension
o global pricing systems - Economic globalization means
obtaining freedom in markets and
facilitated trade in
wipe restrictions among nations
commodities
2. Political dimension
19th Century explosion of science
- Political globalization refers to the
and technology
intensification and expansion of
political interrelations across the
globe
3. Socio-cultural dimension
- The social aspect of globalization is
defined as worldwide social relations
which link distant localities in such a
way that local happenings are
shaped by events occurring many
miles away
- Cultural globalization refers to the
intensification and expansion of
cultural flows across the globe