1. Globalization: Chap 1
Steger, Manfred B. 2003, 2009, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press: New York.

2. Objectives Define Globalization
Differentiate Globalization and Globality
Define the 4 Characteristics of Globalization

3. Globalization Give your definition View video

4. Globalization
Steps to defining it -- Multidimensional set of social processes with following Dimensions:
Economic
Political
Cultural
Environmental

5. Your Results Dimensions Descripton 12 5 17 1 3 2 9 5 16 13 30 2017
Class Definition
Dimensions
 2011
2013
2015
Economic 12 5 17
Political 1
Cultural 3 2
Environmental
other
Combo's
E, C, & P
E & C 9
2017
Economic & Technological 24
Political 3
Cultural 18
Environmental 1
other
Description
state 5
action 26
Descripton
State 5
Action 16 13 30

6. Ideological aspects (underpinnings)
Politically charged narratives (view Chomsky below) – right versus left
Assumptions on social reality and structure – remember schools of economic geography
Implies positions on rationality of markets versus compassion – again refer to schools 

7. Definition – first iteration
What it is not:
valiant conquest of the world by universal Western Culture in the face of undying parochialism reactionary forces of tribalism, localism, and nationalism (Rudyard Kiplings “White Man’s Burden)
Various approaches to define it as:
Process
Condition
System
Force
Age
All of these and more

8. Steger’s Two part definition
Parts – Divide into an end state (pattern/effect) and a driving action (process/cause)
Globalization (process)
Globality (pattern or end state)

9. Globality – an end point or Goal
Social Condition – tight interconnections and flows across all 4 dimensions that make current borders irrelevant
Condition -- state of being or situation
4 Dimensions all addressed (see above)
flows and potential for flows
borders no longer barriers
Note that this is a goal, not current condition
Goal – something always striving for – but never fully reach
Example of a goal – be the best athlete in your sport – always striving after, never fully accomplished, never can rest

10. Globality cont…
Not necessarily stable end point -- Can be supplanted by future goals
Indeterminate character -- Does not address how it operates
Might be based on laissez-faire market system
Or communal norms

11. Globalization – A dynamic action or process – Transformation
Set of social processes that change nationality into globality
Transformation – dynamic ongoing process
Shifting forms of human contact
Leaving behind nationality
Moving towards globality
Not yet reached it

12. Globalization cont… Shifting perception of time and space
Historical progression or change
Reconfiguration of social space and geography
Local, regional, national no longer describe all & get intertwined – “cat’s cradle” of relationships
Glocalization – interaction of the local with the global

13. Globalization cont… Raises many interesting questions
How does it occur?
What is the driving force – one cause or many?
Uniform or uneven process?
Continuation of past or radical break?
Does it result in more or less inequality?

14. Global Imagery Viewing things from a new Global Perspective
Growing consciousness of belonging to a global community

15. Globalization cont… Characteristics of the transformation
1. Creation of new and multiplication of existing social networks
Cuts across existing boundaries – economic, political, cultural, environmental
Creation of new social orders transcend old boundaries
What some have called development of Social Capital networks
Creation of supranational organizations and international NGOs (INGOs)

16. Globalization cont…
2. Expansion & stretching of social activities, relations, interdependencies
Example 24/7 global market cycle
TNCs’ (Trans National Corporations) agendas independent of nation states
“The Exxon-Mobile worldview” or “Monsanto”
Facebook

17. Globalization cont…
3. Intensification & acceleration of social exchanges & activities
Speed of internet
Local commands global audience – example FL church burning of the Koran
Glocalization in action – McDonalds offers different foods in different countries
Again Facebook

18. Globalization cont…
4. Global becomes the frame of reference for thought and action
“Think globally, act locally”
Popular culture borrows globally
World Beat – Multiple examples
Worldbeat is a music genre that primarily refers to a blending of Western pop music and/or rock music with traditional/folk or world music influences. The term is similar by definition to other category labels that refer to a cross pollination of contemporary and roots genres, and which suggest a rhythmic, harmonic or textural contrast between its modern and ethnic elements.

19. Summary of 4 characteristics
Networks – grow (post Cold War changes)
Activities, Interrelationships – grow (China becomes major supplier)
Intensification – grow (stock markets never “sleep”)
New frame of reference – what is the role of the nation-state?

20. Southernization New and Multiplication
Mongols & Silk Road and Expansion of Arab empire
Expansion and Stretching; Interdependencies
Trade goods impact like switch to cotton clothes, economy moves from village, to country, to international
Intensification & Acceleration
Improved production & transportation & players
Global becomes frame of reference
India is center of learning, Gold comes from West Africa, Spices from Indonesia…

21. Succinct Definition
Globalization refers to the (process of) expansion and intensification of social relations (and actions) across world-time and world-space. Globality refers to (the pattern or endpoint of) social conditions with tight global economic, political, cultural and environmental interconnections and flows making current borders irrelevant

22. What Is Globalization? - Noam Chomsk’s contested view
From the left

23. Counterpoint from an Economist
From the center-right

24. View from the weird From Mickey D