Contemporary World

He said that " Globalization is the process of world shrinkage, of distance  getting shorter, things moving closer."

• Manfred B. Steger

• Ritzer, 2015

• Thomas Larsson

• Cesare Poppi

Is the increasing interaction of people, states, or countries through the growth of the international flow of money, ideas, and culture. Thus, globalization is primarily focused on economic process of integration that has social and cultural aspects.

A metaphor of globalization which refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the global world.

• Liquidity

• Solidity

• Flows

• McDonaldization

He said that "globalization refers to the expansion and intensification of  social relations and consciousness across world-time and  world-space. It is a multi-dimensional phenomenon involving  economics, politics, culture, ideology, environment, and  technology"

• Anthony Giddens (The  Consequence of modernity)

• Manfred B. Steger

• Thomas Larsson  (2001)

• Ritzer, 2015

He said that "Globalization is a transplanetary process or a set of process or a set of processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multidirectional flows of people, objects, places, and information as well as the structures they encounter and create that are barriers to, or expedite, those flows."

• Cesare Poppi

• Ritzer, 2015

• Brauman, 2003

• Martin Albrow and Elizabeth King

The two types of globalization are

The increasing sameness in the world as cultural inputs, economic factors, and political orientations of societies expand to create common practices, same economies, and similar forms of government

• Mcdonaldization

• Heterogeneity

• Glocalization

• Homogeneity

The process by which Western societies are dominated by the principles   of fast-food restaurants

• McDonaldization

• Media Imperialism

• Hacktivist

• Independent Media Center

A process wherein nations, corporations, etc impose themselves on geographic areas in order to gain profits, power and so on.

• Americanization

• Cultural Imperialism

• Glocalization

• Grobalization

Pertains to the creation of various cultural practices, new economies, and political groups because of the interaction of elements from different societies in the world.

• Media Imperialism

• Heterogeneity

• Homogeneity

• McDonaldization