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Introduction On The Study of Globalization

The document discusses different approaches to defining and studying globalization. It outlines several definitions of globalization that describe it as increasing interconnectedness, compression of time and space, and flow of people, capital and ideas across borders. It then describes three categories of critics: rejectionists who dismiss globalization as an analytical concept, sceptics who argue globalization is limited to certain regions, and modifiers who take a more moderate view of existing definitions. The assignment asks what the argument of the modifiers is toward existing definitions of globalization.

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Introduction On The Study of Globalization

The document discusses different approaches to defining and studying globalization. It outlines several definitions of globalization that describe it as increasing interconnectedness, compression of time and space, and flow of people, capital and ideas across borders. It then describes three categories of critics: rejectionists who dismiss globalization as an analytical concept, sceptics who argue globalization is limited to certain regions, and modifiers who take a more moderate view of existing definitions. The assignment asks what the argument of the modifiers is toward existing definitions of globalization.

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Introduction on the Study

of Globalization
Intended Learning Outcomes

 construct a personalized definition of globalization ☺


 differentiate the competing conceptions of globalization
 demonstrate the underlying philosophies of the varied definitions of
globalization
Recap of the definitions on globalizations
we did in class last meeting
 Alleged to have accelerated since the 1970s
 No generally accepted definition of globalization has emerged except for such
broad descriptions as:
1. increasing global inter-connectedness
2. expansions and intensification of social relations across world-time and
world-space
3. compression of time and space
4. distant proximities
5. a complex range of processes driven by a mixture of political &
economic influences
6. swift & relatively unimpended flow of capital, people, and ideas across
national borders

According to ( Giddens, 1990 ; Harvey, 1989 ; Held & McGrew, 2007 ; Lechner and
Boli, 2011 ; Robertson, 1992; Steger, 2013 ; Waters, 2001)
Approaches on the Study of
Globalization
 1. Globalization as ‘Globaloney’
- existing accounts of globalization are incorrect, imprecise or
exaggerated
- note that just about everything that can be linked to
transnational process is cited as globalization & its glowing influence

According to (Held & McGrew, 2007; Rosenberg, 2000 ; Veseth, 2010 )


Approaches on the Study of
Globalization
 Critics of globalization can be grouped into 3 categories.
A.) Rejectionists
- dismiss the utility of globalization as an analytical concept
• Susan Strange ( 1996) – considers globalization as a prime example of such
vacuous term, suggesting that it has been used in academic discourse to
refer to anything from the ‘ internet to hamburger’
• Clark (1999: 34-40)
• Linda Weiss (1998) – ‘a big idea resting on slim foundations’
Approaches on the Study of
Globalization
B.) Sceptics – emphasizes the limited nature of current globalizing processes.
● Hirst & Thompson (2009) – claim that the world economy is not truly a global
phenomenon, but one centered in Europe, Eastern Asia and North America
● Argument : Use imprical data to attack the general misuse of the concept
(economic interaction is only happening in advances industrial countries)

● Without a truly global economic system, they insist, there can be no such
thing as globalization

● Globalization is a ‘myth’
Approaches on the Study of
Globalization
C.) Modifiers

Assignment :

What is the argument of the modifiers towards the existing definitions on


globalization ?

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