THE

CONTEMPORARY
WORLD
DEFINING GLOBALIZATION
LEARNING OUTCOME

1. Identify and understand the working

definitions of globalization for the course;
2. Differentiate the competing conceptions
of globalization; and
3. Connect daily life experiences to the
definition of globalization.

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 GLOBALIZATION MAP
Think of vocabulary words that can be connected to the word “GLOBALIZATION.”
Give at least ten (10) words that define the word.

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INTRODUCTION
Much has changed since time immemorial.
Human beings have encountered many changes over
the last century especially in their social relationships
and social structures. Of these changes, one can say
that globalization is a very important change, if not,
the “most important” (Bauman, 2003). The reality
and omnipresence of globalization makes us see
ourselves as part of what we refer to as the “global
age” (Albrow, 1996). The internet, for example,
allows a person from the Philippines to know what is
happening to the rest of the world simply by
browsing google. The mass media also allows for
connections among people, communities, and
countries all over the globe.
TASK OF DEFINING GLOBALIZATION

BROAD NARROW

“Globalization “The characteristics of the globalization

trend include the internationalizing of
production, the new international
means the onset division of labor, new migratory
movements from South to North, the
of the borderless new competitive environment that
accelerates these processes, and the
world.” internationalizing of the state… makes
states into agencies of the globalizing
world.”

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GLOBALIZATION
“Globalization is a trans planetary
process or a set of processes involving
increasingly liquidity and the growing
multidirectional flows of people,
objects, places, and information as
well as the structures they encounter
and create that are barriers to, or
expedite those flows”

- Ritzer (2015)

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The overview of definitions
implies that globalization is many
things to many different people.
In 1996, Arjun Appadurai said,
“globalization is a ‘world of
things’ that have ‘different
speeds, axes, points of origin and
termination, and varied
relationships to institutional
structures in different regions,
nations, or societies’”

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One became part and parcel of
the other. As Poppi (1997) wrote:
“The literature stemming from
the debate on globalization has
grown in the last decade beyond
any individual’s capability of
extracting a workable definition of
the concept.

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It is changing as human society
develops. It has happened before
and is still happening today. We
should expect it to continue to
happen in the future.

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 Overall, globalization is a concept that is not
easy to define because in reality, globalization has a
shifting nature. It is complex, multifaceted, and can
be influenced by the people who define it. Moreover,
the issues and concerns involving globalization have
a wide range - from the individual society, from small
communities to nations and states, and from the
benefits we can gain from it to the costs it could
carry.
METAPHORS OF GLOBALIZATION
SOLID
Solidity refers to barriers that prevent
or make difficult the movement of
things.
Liquidity refers to the increasing ease
of movement of people, things,
information and places in the
contemporary world.
LIQUID
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FLOWS
THE PREVIOUS SECTION DESCRIBED THE MELTING
PROCESS OF SOLID PHENOMENA FOLLOWED BY THE
INCREASE IN LIQUIDITY. IT IS ONLY LOGICAL TO
DISCUSS THE FLOWS OF LIQUID PHENOMENA.
FLOWS ARE THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE, THINGS,
PLACES, AND INFORMATION BROUGHT BY THE
GROWING “POROSITY” OF GLOBAL LIMITATIONS
(RITZER, 2015).
THANK YOU!
 The epochs that preceded today’s globalization
paved way for people, things, information, and
places to harden over time. Consequently, they have
limited mobility (Ritzer, 2015). The social
relationships and objects remained where they were
created. Solidity also refers to barriers that prevent
or make difficult the movement of things.
Furthermore, solids can either be natural or
manmade.
 Liquid, as a state of mater, takes the shape of its
container. Moreover, liquids are not fixed. Liquidity,
therefore, refers to the increasing ease of movement
of people, things, information, and places in the
contemporary world. Zygmunt Bauman’s ideas were
the ones that have much to say about the
characteristic of liquidity. First, today’s liquid
phenomena change quickly and their aspects spatial
and temporal, are in continuous fluctuation.