Socialization And Larsson's Definition Of Globalization

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Globalization is a very broad topic and, at the moment, rank high among the most favorite and most argued concepts. The word appears in different meaning and contexts in social media, newspapers and magazines, televisions and political-economic discourses. Globalization is itself already globalized.
This section provides a small overview of the existing definitions of globalization and then, introduces at the end of this section an author’s definition of globalization.
Globalization is not a single process that can be defined clearly and with a certain beginning and an end. Moreover, it is not new and, historically, its speed and extent has increased with each change in modes of transportation and communication. Globalization is evolutionary; it is a fluid process that is constantly changing with the development of human society.
Globalization is much more than just a set of economic factors, like global flow of capital and goods, and even more then the trans-border flow of people. Globalization is also the flow of genes – a genetic information, and knowledge, the flow of popular culture, new ideas and technology, as well as flow of environmental problems including diseases.
There is very little left that is not touched by the globalization process. Therefore, attitudes towards globalization are highly unstable and unpredictable. It is a concept …show more content…

Giddens (1990) believes that globalization enables the quick spread of modernity and creates and disconnection between time and space, all of it, according to him, thanks to fast electronic communication which reduces the limitations resulting from time and distances of interactions and in the social

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