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Definition: Globalization from Dictionary of Information Science and Technology

the growing interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross-border interactions and transactions in goods and services, free international capital flows, and more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology (Liao & Luo, 2008a)


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From The Dictionary of Human Geography
A big buzzword in political speech and a ubiquitous analytical category in academic debate, globalization operates today rather like modernization did in the mid-twentieth century as the key term of a master discourse about the general state of the world. The most common political version of the discourse depicts globalization as an unstoppable process of global integration , a supposedly inevitable process that while being driven by free market capitalism also necessitates all the free market reforms of neo-liberalism . Here, for example, is Thomas Friedman (1999, pp. 7–8), a columnist of the New York Times who has made a name for himself by interpreting practically any event anywhere in the world through this same simple discourse. Globalization, he says, involves the inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before – in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, …
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Technology was pivotal to globalization throughout the twentieth century. While the transfer and diffusion of technological innovations fueled economic growth, ever-greater global economic interdependence was enabled by new transport and communication technologies, which progressively tamed time and…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
Described as a new world order, some scholars argue that globalization is an unprecedented 21st-century reorganization of time , space , people, and things. It is variously portrayed, sometimes as “globalism” by advocates and promoters, or as a postmodern form of unrestrained capitalist expansion…
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From The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology
This refers to the process by which the world is said to be transformed into a single global system. It became an issue of great significance in the 1990s. Aspects of what is now called globalization were first seriously discussed by sociologists during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1960, MCLUHAN…
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From Global Dictionary of Theology
Globalization refers to increasing worldwide interconnectedness. It is a widening, deepening and acceleration of interaction and interdependence among peoples, companies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and governments. Key technological and economic innovations facilitate increased rates of…
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From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
Globalization is the process by which individuals, organizations, and nations throughout the world become increasingly connected and interdependent economically, politically, culturally, socially, and ecologically. The term as currently employed refers specifically to the post–World War II era, …
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From SAGE Key Concepts Series: Key Concepts in International Relations
CORE QUESTIONS ADDRESSED What defines the contemporary globalization process? How does globalization relate to ‘fragmegration’ and localization? What are the central debates in the globalization context? DEFINITIONS The term globalization became very popular after the end of the Cold War as a…
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First investigated by Canadian scholar Marshall Mc-Luhan in 1964 and then further explored since the 1970s, globalization is the process through which world populations become increasingly interconnected and interdependent, both culturally and economically. The process is often perceived by its…
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From SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Sport Management
Globalization is the economic, political, socio-cultural and temporal integration of people, values, goods and services enabled through advances in technology, travel and communication . Globalization surfaced as the buzzword of the ‘Roaring Nineties’ because it best captured the increasingly…
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From Key Concepts in Governance
DEFINITION Globalization refers to the changing nature of the world economy. The changes are associated with the growth in economic interactions across state borders. The main changes are generally thought to be increasing trade flows, greater mobility of finance capital, and the…
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From The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory Full text Article Cultural Theory
Globalization signifies a range of processes that replaces traditionally localized social and cultural structures (e.g., tribes, nation-states, ethnic groups, languages) with more universal ones. Some cultural historians have defined globalization as simply an intensification of fundamental…
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