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SUSAN MAE G. APOSTOL

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Lesson1:
WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION

Different scholars have different viewpoint if what globalization is. Some would view globalization as a
positive phenomenon some would see its detrimental effects on society which cannot be separated from
the issues of global economic and cultural imperialism.

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 OBJECTIVES

At the end of this lesson you are expected to:

 Describe the contemporary world

 Craft one’s own working definition of globalization
based on the different meaning of globalization.
 Differentiate the meaning of globalization, globality
and globalism
 Be familiarize with the dimensions and characteristics
of globalization.

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Before reading the discussion
below, choose whether to create
a poster/collage, compose and
perform a song or compose
poem and deliver spoken poetry
which shows or depicts your
concept of the word today.
Provide a short essay of your
description of the contemporary
world.

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 HELPF
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 GIDDENS (1990)

Points out that globalization is the

intensification of worldwide social relations
which link distant localities in such a way
that local happenings are shaped by events
occurring many miles and away.

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 MCGREW (1990)
Globalization is composed
of multiple sameness and
interconnectedness that go
beyond nation states where
individuals and
organizations in one part of
the world is affected by the
activities, affairs, and
convictions on another part
of the globe.
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 HOLM AND GEORGE (1998)

described globalization as the

intensification of economic, social
and cultural relations across borders

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 (ALBROW, 1990)

 it is the processes by which the

peoples of the world are
incorporated into a single world
society, global society

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 KANTER (1995)

 said that it is a condition where the

world is becoming a global shopping
mall in which ideas and products are
available everywhere at the same time.

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 STEGER (2009

defined globalization as a set of social processes

that appear to transform our present social
condition of weakening nationality into one
globality.

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 HE ADDS THAT THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF
GLOBALISM NAMELY:

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 MARKET GLOBALISM
advocates promise a consumerist,
neoliberal, free-market world. This
ideology is held by many powerful
individuals, who claim it transmits
democracy and benefits everyone.
However, it also reinforces inequality, and
can be politically motivated.

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 JUSTICE GLOBALISM
envisages a global civil society
with fairer relationships and
environmental safeguards. They
disagree with market globalists
who view neoliberalism as the
only way.

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 Steger (2009) further defines globalization as the expansion and
intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and
world space. He explained that globalization has several dimensions:

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 ‘The economic dimension of
globalization’ explores how
the way people have
undertaken economic
production has changed.

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 ‘The political dimension of
globalization’ looks at political
arrangements beyond the nation-state.
Traditional politics harboured an ‘us’
and ‘them’ mentality. Contemporary
globalization has led to a permeation
of those borders.

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 The cultural dimension of
globalization’ explores the
intensification and expansion of
cultural flows across the globe.
Critics of cultural globalization
claim that the world is being
homogenized or ‘Americanized’.

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 ‘The ecological dimension of
globalization’ examines the effects of
global alliances on ecological issues.
There is an inexorable link between all
humanity and the planet Earth. The
Industrial Revolution has caused many
ecological problems, including, resource
and food shortages, overpopulation,
reduced biodiversity, pollution, and
climate change.

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 FURTHERMORE COX (1999) PROVIDES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GLOBALIZATION
TREND:

 internationalizing of production  globalizing of finance and securities trading

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 FURTHERMORE COX (1999) PROVIDES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GLOBALIZATION
TREND:

 changing international division of vast migratory movements from South

to North
labor

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 FURTHERMORE COX (1999) PROVIDES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GLOBALIZATION
TREND:

internationalizing of the state making states

 competitive environment that
into agencies of the globalizing world
accelerates these processes

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 Craft your own personal definition of
globalization. Relate your definition to your
outputs about depicting the contemporary world.

ACTIVITY
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 Albrow, Martin (1990). Globalization, Knowledge and Society. London: Sage
Giddens, Anthony (1990). The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press
Holm, Hans-Henrik and Georg Sorensen (1995) “Introduction: What Has Changed?” in Hans-Henrik Holm and Georg
Sorensen, eds., Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder, CO: Westview), 1–17.
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss (1995). World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy (New York: Simon and Schuster, as
cited in J. A. Scholte, “The Globalization of World Politics”, in J. Baylis and S. Smith (eds.), The Globalization of World
Politics, An Introduction to International Relations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Khor, Martin (1995). "Address to the International Forum on Globalization," New York City.
Mcgrew, A. (1990). A Global Society: Modernity and its Futures as cited by Brazalote and Leonardo (2019) The
Contemporary World: Outcome-Based Module. Quezon City: C & E Publishing Inc.
Steger, Manfred. B. (2009). Globalization: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wallerstein, Immanuel (1974). The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-
Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press

REFERENC
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