What is globalization?

1) Summarize

Globalization is an essentially contested concept. A strong characteristic of the currency of the concept is the cleavage between people who take a mainly economic position on globalization and other people who have a broader viewpoint. As anti-capitalistic globalization grew rapidly, the movement itself is one of the globalization process. People thought that the most important single defining feature of globalization is that of increasing connectivity (or interconnectedness). Thus, for people who think of globalization as being pivoted upon this, little attention is given directly to what could, be considered as a combination of both subjective and cultural factors. Seeming failure to acknowledge fully the cultural aspect of globalization can now clearly be seen as a very costly mistake from the perspective of globalization theory.

There are three major dimensions on globalization. They’re economic, the political and the cultural. Because of the economic globalization, the cultural dimension has come increasingly to the fore partly. When referring to the social dimension, we are including the communicative. Culture includes the environmental concern. We should keep in mind there’s no dimension that is more important than the other. According to Wallerstein’s point of view, over the past five or six hundred years, the present world-system has been produced mainly by the expansion of capitalism. Wallerstein regards it as now being increasingly challenged by anti-systemic movements. We are constrained to think of the overall process of globalization in a more multifaceted way as far as we have rejected the unidimensional, economic approach to globalization,

The problem precipitating the concept of glocalization was the relationship between the global and the local. Attempting to characterize globalization will be followed. Two major directional tendencies on globalizations are increasing global connectivity and increasing global consciousness. And also like the operations of the UN, globalization is focused upon four reference: nation-states, world politics, individuals, and humankind. Globalization has a particular form to all intents and purposes, consummated by the founding of the United Nations organization. At last, globalization is constituted by sides of life. They’re the cultural, the social, the political and the economic. In real situations, they’re intertwined. In some situations, one or more aspects are more prominent. In modern society, the cultural and the economic are closely interpenetrative.

To conduct effective and plausible critical analysis, the attainment of ever more sophisticated frameworks for the very discussion of globalization is required. Undisciplined critique is dangerous in the way that globalization simply can become negative fad words, something to employ as a source of blame for each and every problem. In spite of much rigorous elaboration of globalization theory recently, we still unfortunately see a lot of such indulgence around us.

 

 

2) Interesting items I learned

Glocalization.

We learned the term ‘Glocalization’ and shared ideas and thoughts about it during our class before. After I read this article, I could understand it more clearly and specifically. I thought this word ‘Glocalization’ in positive view because its dictionary definition is not that bad. However, after reading this article, I thought there can be many arguments about this term and related issues. I think ‘glocalization’ can be somewhat violent to certain countries and cultures such as developing countries. I can’t recognize it before. I was impressed that relation between the global and the local is important thing when discuss glocalization.

 
 

3) Discussion point

The writer mentioned “There is a particularly significant set of ramifications of the concept of glocalization. This has to do with the ways in which one might sensibly answer the question: What happens after globalization?”. And the writer also said there can be no criterion as a fully globalized world might look like. Then, I think an ideal or an expected glocalization is diverse and reflected by one’s view and intention points about globalization. Although we discussed similar questions, I don’t think we talk about it directly. I wonder other students’ thoughts and want to discuss view on globalization combined glocalization in our class.