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    Chapter 1 - Globalization - A Contested Concept

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    Globalization is a contested concept that refers to contradictory social processes. It describes a condition of increasing interdependence and integration between societies and cultures due to advances in technology and transportation. While globalization creates new connections, its effects are uneven and experienced differently in different parts of the world. It is an ongoing transformation of the modern world into greater interconnectedness on a global scale.

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    Chapter 1 - Globalization - A Contested Concept

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    Globalization is a contested concept that refers to contradictory social processes. It describes a condition of increasing interdependence and integration between societies and cultures due to advances in technology and transportation. While globalization creates new connections, its effects are uneven and experienced differently in different parts of the world. It is an ongoing transformation of the modern world into greater interconnectedness on a global scale.

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    Globalization is a contested concept that refers to contradictory social processes. It describes a condition of increasing interdependence and integration between societies and cultures due to advances in technology and transportation. While globalization creates new connections, its effects are uneven and experienced differently in different parts of the world. It is an ongoing transformation of the modern world into greater interconnectedness on a global scale.

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    “Globalization" - a contested concept that refers

    to sometimes contradictory social processes

    - Rise of Osama Bin Laden and the Al Jazeera


    - Bin Laden’s terrorist activities paved the way to the idea of
    hybridization – a fragmentation and cross-culture fertilization
    i.e. use of technology coming from different parts of the world
    (AK47 rifles of Russia)
    - Al Qaeda’s indoctrination
    - Al Jazeera’s wider network since its inception (use of western
    satellites to transmit programs, the reduction of prices of
    satellite dishes, becoming more affordable and their tie-up
    with international news agencies such CNN)
    Globalization

    - Used to describe a process, a condition, a


    system, a force and age – which invites
    confusion ( situational in a sense)
    - Globality – a social condition, a transition into
    something new by making irrelevant those
    currently existing
    - A social process – a shifting of forms of human
    contact
    Globalization is happening:

    - We are slowly leaving behind the condition of


    modernity that gradually unfolded from the
    16th century onwards
    - Transition to a new globality (postmodern)
    - What lies beyond (something we haven’t seen
    or reached)

    It corresponds to the idea of change, a transformation of


    modern conditions is something inevitable
    It corresponds to the idea of change, a transformation of
    modern conditions is something inevitable:

    - An on-going process (a shifting of perceptions)


    - Movement towards greater interdependence and
    integration

    * Globalization is seen as a kind of contested concept; no


    consensus as to what kinds of social processes
    constitutes its essence.
    Four distinct qualities of globalization, as characterized
    in the given definitions:

    - Creation of new and multiplication of existing


    networks and activities
    - Expansion and the stretching of social relations,
    activities, and interdependencies
    - Intensification and acceleration of social exchanges
    and activities the creation, expansion, and
    intensification of social
    - interconnections and interdependencies do not occur
    merely on an objective, material level (an increase in
    how social interdependence is being done)
    Globalization is an uneven process, meaning that people
    living in various parts of the world are affected very
    differently by this gigantic transformation of social
    structures and cultural zones

    - Multi-dimensionality as an attribute of globalization


    - “Parable of the Elephant”
    - Collective mistake lies in their dogmatic attempts to
    reduce such a complex phenomenon as globalization
    to a single domain that corresponds to their own
    expertise

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