UNIT 1

 -Write a personal definition of globalization

 Agree on a working definition of globalization
for the course
 Differentiate globalization from globalism.
GLOBALIZATION
 An economic process.
 Refers to the integration of the national markets to a wider
global market signified by the increased free trade.
 an expansion and intensification of social relations and
consciousness across world time- and across world space.
▪ Expansion- refers to both creation of new social networks and the
multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional
political, economic ,cultural and geographic boundaries. Example:
Social media
▪ Intensification- refers to the expansion, stretching and acceleration of
these networks. Example: A strong financial market connecting
London and Newyork.
 Globalization processes do not occur merely at an
objective , material level but they also involve in the
subjective plane of human consciousness.
 Different kinds of Globalization occur on
multiple and interesting dimensions of
integration that Arjun Appadurai
(anthropologist) calls “escapes”.
 Ethnoscape- global movement of people
 Mediascape- flow of culture
 Technoscape- circulation of mechanical goods and
software.
 Financescape-global circulation of money
 Ideoscope-the realm where political ideas move
around.
 Globalization
 Represents many processes that allow for the
expansion and intensification of global
connections
 Globalism
 A widespread belief among powerful people that
the global integration of economic markets is
beneficial for everyone, since it spreads freedom
and democracy across the world.
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1. How have you experienced
globalization?
2. What is the difference between
globalization and globalism?