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This document discusses several key concepts related to globalization, including solidity and liquidity as metaphors. It defines solidity as barriers that prevent movement, while liquidity refers to the increasing ease of movement globally. It also discusses the concepts of flows, homogenization, and heterogeneity in globalization. Flows represent the movement of people, information, and ...
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- From “ Solids ” to “ Liquids ”
- ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF GLOBALIZATION
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Prior to the current epoch of globalization (as we will see in the second part of this chapter, most observers believe that there was a previous epoch, if not many previous epochs, of globalization), it could be argued that one of the things that characterized people, things, information, places, and much else was their greater solidity . That is,...
Telling the story of the origins and history of globalization is no easy matter since there are a number of different perspectives on these issues. In this section we will offer fi ve different ways of thinking about what turn out to be very complex issues.
Globalization is a transplanetary process or set of processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multi - directional fl ows of people, objects, places, and information, as well as the structures they encounter and create that are barriers to, or expedite, those fl ows. The sheer magnitude, diversity, and complexity of the process of glo...
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The following is the definition of globalization4 to be used in this book (note that all of the italicized terms will be discussed in this chapter): globalization is a transplanetary process or set of processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multidirectional flows of people, objects, places and information as well as the
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Over the years, globalization has gained many connotations pertaining to progress, development, and integration. On the one hand, some view globalization as a positive phenomenon. For instance, Swedish journalist Thomas Larsso (2001) saw globalization as the “the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer.
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Prior to the current epoch of globalization (and as we will see, to most observers there was a previous global epoch [see Chapter 2], if not many previous epochs, of globalization), it could be argued that one of the things that characterized people, things, information, places, and much else was their greater solidity. That is,
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Ritzer’s definition because the presence of barriers contrasts with the view found in many discussions of globalization that integration is the inevitable result of the globalizing process. The author invents his approach to globalization using the metaphors of solids, liquids, flows, and structural barriers. The liquidity of things
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Aug 20, 2024 · For this textbook, we will define globalization as the acceleration and intensification of global interconnectivity, interdependence, and integration processes. Within this definition, special attention must be placed on the last word processes. Globalization is a process and not necessarily a condition.
