CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION
TO
GLOBALIZATION
CHAPTER OVERVIEW
 Globalization plays a vital role in the economic system of the world. The world
economy which is set to be a system of being globalized. What does it mean? It
means that the whole world is increasingly involving as a part of a single
market, with interdependent production, consuming similar goods, and
responding to the same impulses. It also involves of spreading of ideas,
practices, and technologies. It is the connectivity across the entire world of the
economic and cultural life that increased throughout the centuries. However,
what is the real concept of globalization and when did it begin? Does the
perspective of every experts differ from one another? What are some impacts of
globalization to the development of world’s economy? Do you think it is
beneficial? Why or why not?
 Theaim of this chapter is to outline some of the main
dimensions of globalization and to indicate some ways in
which they are being studied and criticize by the experts.
This chapter is an attempt to open more doors than it
closes and to point the reader in directions that I have
myself found fruitful.
DEFINITION OF GLOBALIZATION

Globalizationis comprised of multiple

sameness and interconnectedness that go
beyond the nation-states. McGrew (1990)
DEFINITION OF GLOBALIZATION

Ohmae in 1992 stated, “Globalization means

the onset of the borderless world”
DEFINITION OF GLOBALIZATION

“Globalization is a world in which societies,

cultures, politics and economics have, in
some sense, come closer together” – Ray
Kiely and Phil Marfleet, Globalisation and
the Third World (London: Routledge, 1998)
DEFINITION OF GLOBALIZATION

Globalization is the intensification of

economic, political, social and cultural
relations across borders. – Hans-Henrik Holm
and Georg Sorensen (eds.)
Globality

 Globalization as a condition
Future social condition characterized by thick
economic, political, and cultural
interconnections and global flows that make
currently existing political borders and
economic barriers irrelevant (Steger (2005).
Globalism

Steger (2014) globalization as an ideology

Appadurai (1996) five dimensions of
global cultural flow.
 1. Ethnoscape- global movement of people
 2. Mediascape- flow of culture
 3. Technoscape- circulation of mechanical goods and
software
 4. Finacescape- global circulation of money
 5. Ideoscape- realm of political ideas
 Windows into the broader phenomenon of globalization
Globalization is also defined
differently depending on
someone else’s expertise,
experience, and perspective