INTRODUCTION TO GLOBALIZATION

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Globalization is a process that encompasses the causes, course, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities (Al-Rodhan, 2006, p. 5)

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• False

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Globalization is used to refer cultural globalization because many people believe that globalization is driven by the worldwide export of western culture through the new mass media: film, radio, television and recorded music.

• True

• False

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Global Economic crises are not products of homogeneity in economic globalization.

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• False

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Globalization is not a trans-planetary process or a set of processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multi directional flows of people, objects, places, and information as well as the structures they encounter and create that are barriers to, or expedite those flows (Ritzer, 2015, p. 2)

• True

• False

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Globalization is a concept that is not easy to define because in reality, globalization has a shifting nature.

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• False

It refers to barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things. It can be natural or human-made.

• Flows

• Liquid

• Solidity

• Liquidity

It makes use of one term to help us better understand another term. In our case, the states of matter-solid and liquid- will be used.

• Flows

• Metaphors

• Solidity

• Liquidity

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.

• Globalization

• Metaphors

• Solidity

• Liquidity

It is the movement of people, things, places, and information brought by the growing “porosity” of global limitations (Ritzer, 2015).

• Flows

• Metaphors

• Solidity

• Liquidity

It emphasizes that cultures are essentially different and are only superficially affected by global flows.

• Regionalization

• cultural convergence

• cultural hybridization

• Cultural differentialism