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Jesus Reigns Christian College - Amadeo Foundation,
Inc.
College Department
GEC
Contemporary World
BEED / BS Criminology / BSBA
First Semester
School Year 2021-2022
Ms. Joann Q. Panahon
Instructor
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Module Lesson 1 –
Globalization: An Introduction
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the learning session, the
student is able to:
1. Discourse on the nature of globalization
2. Discourse the different definitions of globalization
3. Differentiate internalization, liberalization and universalization vis-à -vis the concept of
globalization; and
4. Participate actively in the outcomes based activities each learning session
Lecture Notes:
1. On globalization (definition, etc.)
1.1. it is the word used to describe the growing interdependence of the world's
economies, cultures, and populations, brought about by cross-border trade in goods
and services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information
1.2. It means the speedup of movements and exchanges (of human beings, goods, and
services, capital, technologies or cultural practices) all over the planet. One of the
effects of globalization is that it promotes and increases interactions between
different regions and populations around the globe.
1.3. The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications.
1.4. Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader
outlook of an interconnected and inter dependent world with free transfer of
capital, goods and services across national frontiers.
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1.5. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and as suggested by
some economists, may hurt smaller or fragile economic of applied indiscriminately
1.6. Likewise, globalization is a process of interaction among the people, companies and
governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and
investment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and
prosperity and on human physical well-being in societies around the world
1.7. Globalization is increasing interdependence of national economies in trade, finance,
and macroeconomic policy
1.8. Globalization is diffusion of practices, values and technology that have an influence
on people’s lives worldwide
1.9. It is a process fueled by and resulting in, increasing cross-border blows of goods,
services, money, people, information, and culture.
1.10. Globalization as a development in the structure of geography is closely interrelated
with concurrent development in structures of production, governance, identity
2. These definitions are in some ways related and to some existent overlapping, but their
emphases are substantially different- the most common opinion of globalization is
INTERNALIZATION.
3. “Global” is described as cross-border relations between countries, and globalization incomes
growth of international exchange and interdependence; globalization is found in enlarged
movements between countries of people, money, investments, diseases, pollutants, messages,
ideas, etc. (Sholte, 2005, p.16)
4. Globalization is liberalization – as ‘globalization means a process of removing state- imposed
restrictions on movements between countries in order to create an “open”, “borderless” world
economy.
5. Globalization is used as universalization and that this means. “Globalization” is the spread of
various objects and experiences to people all around the world.
We could see the evidence of globalization of the Gregorian calendar, tobacco, rock music,
automobiles, Chinese restaurants, business suits, Barbie dolls, school curricula and much
more; globalization – as – universalization is viewed as standardization and homogenization
with worldwide cultural, economic, legal and political convergence (Sholte, 2005, p.16)
6. Globalization is also widely used as westernization or modernization, it is called also
Americanization – here the social structures of modernity like capitalism, rationalism,
bureaucratism, individualism, and so on, are spread the world over, normally destroying
earlier-existent cultures and local self determination in the process.
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7. “Globalization” in this sense is sometimes described as imperialism of McDonald’s, Hollywood
and CNN; in this way, it is often interpreted as colonization, Americanization and
“westoxication.”
8. Some scholars or academics talk about globalization as an ideology of supposed progress that
masks far reaching subordination by the west of the rest.
9. Current large scale globalization has resulted mainly from forces of modernity like rationalist
knowledge, capitalist production, and bureaucratic governance- it means that governance
institutions, firms, mass media, academics and civic society associations in Western Europe
and North America have ranked among the most enthusiastic promoters of contemporary
globalization (Sholte, 2005, p.16;58)
“Globalizati
on is a
complex of
social
processes
that
intensify
and No
Activity expand
1.
Directions:
worldwide
Draw your concept map on globalization; explain your concept map in a 150 word essay.
economic,
Essay Format: Times New Roman Font. Size: 14. Double space.
cultural,
political,
and
technologica
l exchanges
and
connections.
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Dr. Cairo
