Concepts of Globalization: A. Introduction To Globalization
Concepts of Globalization: A. Introduction To Globalization
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CONCEPTS OF GLOBALIZATION
This introduces the learners to the concepts
and various definitions of globalization as a
process, condition, and ideology. It also exposes
the learners to the academic and non-biased
definition of globalization based on political
scientists, economists, and culture and
communication experts.
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DIAGNOSTICS:
Instructions: Write AGREE if you think the statement is correct; otherwise, DISAGREE.
_________ 1. Globalization is I and the world.
_________ 2. The world that we live in now is a product of globalization in the past.
_________ 3. Globalization gone too far, heading in the wrong direction.
_________ 4. The United Nations is a global government.
_________ 5. Globalization is another word for Americanization.
Everyone can observe the trend among many middle cases or elite students nowadays,
especially those who are in urban areas. This trend is a clear indication that many people lives
, like Filipinos, are affected by global economic imperialism. Economic imperialism is simply, a
situation in which one country has a lot of economic power or influence over the others. This
is the age of “Westernization” and/or “Americanization” of contemporary Filipinos. The ideas
and behavior that are characterized by Westernians and North Americans are adopt by the
Tony is a college student. He drinks Pandesal Mate with his usual corned beef,
egg, and rice for breakfast every school day. While eating, he watches Fox
movie on cable TV to make his morning light. Afterwards, he rushes to brush
his teeth using Colgate. Then, he is ready to go. Upon entering the gate of the
university campus, he taps his school ID on the turnstile entrance. Likewise, he
sends his “Hi” message to his special friend using his new iPhoneX. More so,
Tony and his friends love to wear Nike shoes and use Vans schoolbags, with
their favorite Denim outfit during wash days. They love to hang out in their
favorite fast food store, Jollibee, and happily eat their favorite burger, chicken
joy and Coke float. Tony and his classmates use their mobile smartphones and
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Filipinos while reducing the traditional ideas and behavior in their culture. That’s why at our
present day and age there are McDonald’s outlets all over the world and almost in every major
Philippine city. At the same time there are now Jollibee branches in some big cities around
the world. There are so many telenovela from Korea or from Mexico that proliferate in our
television screens. Or maybe you and your friends or relatives come to know kimchi, sushi,
tacos, etc. And some Filipino dishes like sisig or adobo become popular even in foreign
countries. One thing is sure, globalization is a phenomenon.
Since the early 19th century, globalization has been a “buzzword” throughout the world,
though the term itself has been popularized only through former Harvard Business School
Professor Theodore Levitt’s article entitled “The Globalization of Markets.” (Levitt, 1983)
Globalization refers to the existence of free exchange goods, services, culture, and even
people, between and among countries. Under the banner of globalization, countries have
discarded taxes on imported goods (tariffs) and opened their doors to highly skilled workers
and professionals. Through globalization people became more interested to travel, learn new
languages, and immerse themselves into new cultures and lifestyles.
On the first decade of the 21st century, some scholars argued that globalization is a process.
However, on the other it is a condition and for some, it is described as an ideology.
Central to the study of the contemporary world is the concept of globalization. The following
are the underlying definitions of globalization:
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However, globalization is different with globalism, which points our aspirations for an end
state of affairs, values are shared by all the people in the world, as well as their environment,
roles as citizens, consumers and producers that can answer common problems. Not it is
universalism, values that hugs all humanity. Meanwhile, Steger (20025) uses the term
globality to mean globalization as a condition.
Competing Conceptions of Globalization
There are manifold concepts, perspectives, and ideas about globalization. Many scholars gave
and tried to formulate the definition of globalization. This resulted in different, sometimes
contradicting, views about the concept.
•Manfred Steger remarks that since its earliest appearance in the 1960s, the term
‘globalization’ has been used in both popular and academic literature to describe a process, a
condition, a system, a force, and an age. (Steger, 2003)
•Thomas Larsson, a Swedish journalist saw globalization as positive phenomenon and
define it as “the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving
closer. It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can
interact to mutual benefit with somebody the other side of the world. (Larsson, 2001).
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2. The three (3) things that are still unclear to me are ……………..
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Abstract
One of the most important factors of developed countries is the indicator of the country's globalization
rate indicator. If a country has good indicator or high globalization indicator it is a positive point for
that country. This paper aims to study some contemporary issue of globalization and its challenges.
Introduction
Globalization typically refers to the process by which different economies and societies become more
closely integrated, and concurrent with increasing worldwide globalization, there has been much
research into its consequences (Nilson, 2010, p.1191). Covering a wide range of distinct political,
economic, and cultural trends, the term ―globalization‖ has quickly become one of the most
fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debate. In popular discourse,
globalization often functions as little more than a synonym for one or more of the following
phenomena: the pursuit of classical liberal (or ―free market‖) policies in the world economy
(―economic liberalization‖), the growing dominance of western (or even American) forms of political,
economic, and cultural life (―westernization‖ or ―Americanization‖), the proliferation of new
information technologies (the ―Internet Revolution‖), as well as the notion that humanity stands at
the threshold of realizing one single unified community in which major sources of social conflict have
vanished (global integration‖; Globalization, 2010). Globalization is not a new phenomenon, with
global ecological changes, an ever more integrated global economy, and other global trends, political
activity increasingly takes place at the global level (Globalization, 2005). It is old but not very about
more than 20 years scholars from a variety of fields and coerces have been discussed in a vigorous
debate about this social phenomenon: globalization (Belk, 1996; Castells, 1996; Featherstone, 1990,
1995; Ger and Belk, 1996; Liebes and Katz, 1993; Robertson, 1992; Sklair, 2002; Waters, 1995;
Matei, 2006, p.1).
Few concepts have disused as rapidly as globalization. A look into the Social Science Citation Index shows zero
entries 1986, 10 entries 1990, and nearly 400 entries 1997. It grows daily in newspapers. But, in spite of all the
talk of globalization, pro and con, the notion is seldom defined, much less operational zed. It therefore often
serves ideologically as a disuse positive goal associated with degrees of freedom, mobility, integration,
exchange of learning and broadening of horizons; or, as an equally negative alien force, falling down like rain on
poor innocent locals, diminishing their autonomy and threatening their identity. Globalization has become a
generic term for a wide variety of processes involving a number of societal spheres: trade and investment, the
geography of branches and arms, the political geography of spatial competence in decision-making, cultural
exchange and hybridization, transportation and telecommunications. Indeed, it can be argued that since these
processes are plural, we should ``conceive of globalizations in the plural'' (Nederveen Pieterse, 1994, p. 161;
Clurk & Lund, 2000, p. 468).
Globalization may be defined and realized in many ways. For example, one may speak of economic, social, and
cultural globalization (Bornman & Schoonraad, 2001) and therefore the plural (‗‗globalizations‘‘) is perhaps
more accurate (Braman & Statan, 2000). Teitel (2005) defines (economic) globalization as ‗‗. . . the
phenomenon of increased integration of the world economy as evidenced by the growth of international trade
and factor mobility.‘‘
As a result, laws, economies, and social movements are forming at the international level. Many politicians,
academics, and journalists treat these trends as both inevitable and (on the whole) welcome. But for billions of
the world's people, business-driven globalization means uprooting old ways of life and threatening livelihoods
and cultures (Global Policy Forum, 2011). Civil society organizations act globally by forming alliances with
organizations in other countries, using global communications systems, and lobbying international organizations
and other actors directly, instead of working through their national governments (Globalization, 2005).
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