T H E C O N T E M P O R A RY W O R L D

GLOBALIZATION
MODULE 1 - LESSON 1
 This lesson will help you:

1. Identify the conceptions of globalization and its underlying

philosophies
2. Identify the definition of globalization that will be adopted
for the course
3. Articulate what makes globalization contemporary
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China Ship

by Adolfo Arranz and Ma rc o Hernandez

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of Philippines how global trading began in late 16th Century Circular

s h i p p i n g r o u t e b e t we e n As i a a n d A m e r i c a s wa s e s t a b l i s h e d b y “ S p a n i s h n a v i g a t o r s i n t h e P h i l i p p i n e s ”
 Ritzer, 2011
DEFINITIONS Transplanetary processes involving the
increasing liquidity and growing multi-
directional flows as well as the structures
they encounter and create.

Albrow, 1996
We are living in the “global age”
DEFINITIONS Bauman, 2003
Presentations are communication tools
that can be used as lectures.

Robertson & Chirico, 1985

set of processes through which the world
is becoming “a single place”
GLOBALIZATION
A set of processes through which the
world is becoming “a single place”:
GLOBALIZATION
People feel increasingly connected in
many ways so
that they feel as if they are part of a
single world
• Is Syria solely responsible for
their problems?
• What is the most important issue for Americans today? Why do you know this?

W H AT ' S T H E I M PA C T. . . A S A N AT I O N ?
There are events in one
part of the world impact
that people living far away
with a greater immediacy

(travel ban, closure of tourist

sites, labour ban)
HOW ABOUT SKILLS DEMAND?
REALIZATIONS FROM
GLOBALIZATION

• Avoid
parochialism
 REALIZATIONS
FROM
GLOBALIZATION

• World teaches us
more about our
own society
 REALIZATIONS
FROM
GLOBALIZATION

• Increasing
interaction of
Filipinos to the
world
 REALIZATIONS
FROM
GLOBALIZATION

• Globalization:
inherently
interdisciplinary
HUMAN COSTS OF
MAJOR POLITICAL-
ECONOMIC EVENTS
BREXIT;
Protectionists policies of President
Trump;
The influx of FDI.
HUMAN COSTS OF
JPEPA
Difficulty in learning the language
& culture, rigid training on
Japanese health facilities before
taking another licensure exam,
change of terms of payment.
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Globalization reaches into every dimension ofsocial

life and more deeply than we mightimagine into each
of our lives.
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon

of“increasing interactions” gradually involving more
people in more parts of the world (explorations, silk
road, colonization).
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
• Contemporary period is significantly different
from the past.
• Every person and society is now “caught” in the
same webs of worldwide web.
• Contemporary social life has grown beyond its
societal attachments
How do we experience
Globalization?
 LINK WORLDWIDE
D I S TA N T
LOCALITIES
Globalization

ENABLES FOR
EVENTS MANY I N V O LV E S T H E
M I L E S AWAY I N T E N S I F I C AT I O N
S H A P E TO L O C A L OF SOCIAL
HAPPENINGS, VISE R E L AT I O N S
VERSA. WORLDWIDE
 Be Inspired

IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT

THAN KNOWLEDGE.
A L B E RT E I N S T E I N

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