CONTEMP | PRELIM

Globalization is a social and cultural process in which individuals of different cultural backgrounds interact with one another in all spheres of life more intensively than before.

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Globalization's integration is increasingly showing people to various ways of pondering, cultural values, and new forms of family life.

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Globalization is the decreasing interdependence of economies in trade, finance, and macroeconomic policy.

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Answer explanation

Globalization is the decreasing (correct: increasing) interdependence of economies in trade, finance, and macroeconomic policy.

Globalization is the diffusion of practices, values, and technology that impacts people's lives around the globe

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Globalization is the expansion and intensification of social exclusions and consciousness across world-time and across world-space.

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Answer explanation

Globalization is the expansion and intensification of social exclusions (correct: social relations) and consciousness across world-time and across world-space.

Expansion refers to both the creation of new social networks and the multiplication of existing connections that cur across traditional, political, economic, cultural, and geographic boundaries

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Social media is the connections between individuals

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International/Government Organization is a network that connect a more specific group such as social workers or leaders around the globe.

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Answer explanation

International/Government (correct: Non-Government) Organization is a network that connect a more specific group such as social workers or leaders around the globe.

Intensification refers to the stretching and acceleration of connections

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Globalization is not a new practice. However, American author Thomas Jefferson stated that if we were to compare globalization before versus today, today's practice of globalization if "farther, faster, cheaper, and deeper".

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Answer explanation

Globalization is not a new practice. However, American author Thomas Jefferson (correct: Thomas Friedman) stated that if we were to compare globalization before versus today, today's practice of globalization if "farther, faster, cheaper, and deeper".