GEC: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

INTRODUCTION ON THE STUDY OF

GLOBALIZATION

Angelica E. Carillo
INTRODUCTION ON THE STUDY OF
GLOBALIZATION
INTRODUCTION ON THE STUDY OF
GLOBALIZATION

**Global Age

**encompasses a multitude of
processes that involves economy,
political systems, culture, trade,
immigration, travel, communication,
transportation, knowledge, media &
entertainment
►HOW DO YOU DEFINE GLOBALIZATION?
INTRODUCTION ON THE STUDY OF
GLOBALIZATION

-process of world shrinkage, of distances

getting shorter, things moving closer
-means the onset of a borderless world
-complex and multi-faceted as the
definitions deal with either economic,
political, or social dimensions
-could bring either or both integration
and/or fragmentation
-is a reality, it is changing as human
society develops
 METAPHORS OF GLOBALIZATION

• Liquid (liquidity):
• Solid (solidity):
- are not fixed; takes the shape of
- refers to barriers that prevent or
the container
making things difficult to move
- refers to the increasing ease of
- can either be natural or man-made
movement of people, things,
- -becoming increasingly liquid in
information, and places in the
the contemporary times
contemporary world
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