KM JSI Globalisation

Globalisation is a process that has

been going on for a very long time. It started when early

humans started moving out of ________ 1.8 million years ago.

• Africa

• Australia

______________ observes that globalisation is used to describe a

process that dates back thousands of years

• Giddens

• Poutney

 Digital technology has brought about more 

global social change in the last ___- years than had occurred in the previous 300 years. 

• 10

• 20

• 30

• 5

_____________ means that goods and services, money, people, disease, popular culture, ideas, religion and pollution now cross national borders on an extraordinary scale and at incredible speed.

• globalisation

• socialisation

The Internet which was created in _______

led to some of the most significant advances in

communication technology

• 1993

• 1983

____________ warns that the term globalisation can be misused and

misunderstood.  It needs careful consideration when used and defined in

sociology.

• Wiseman

• Cochran and Pain

____________ argues that globalisation will eventually compress the world cultures into a ‘superculture’ - cultural homogenisation.

• McLuhan

• Wiseman

__________ states that ‘Globalisation refers to the fact that we all increasingly live in one world' (interdependence).

• McLuhan

• Giddens

__________ states that defining globalisation is anything but easy.

• McLuhan

• Al Rodhan

The ______ tribe in Brazil has had long periods of time

where it has had no contact with the outside world but due to globalisation are fighting for their right to live in the area and preserve their culture.

• Giddens

• Awa