GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Industrial Revolution, New Imperialism, Service Economy
Document Summary
Global perspecive: deining globalizaion, general agreement, globalizaion-the widening, deepening, speeding up, and growing impact of ii. worldwide interconnectedness. Interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary life, from social to spiritual, poliical to cultural, criminal to military: worldwide integraion of society , frequent disagreement, how globalizaion is best conceptualized, when it began iii. iv. Its consequences: global processes, stretching of social, poliical, and economic aciviies across froniers, regions, and coninents, they are not separate, autonomous units b. c. d. Intensiicaion/magnitude of interconnectedness in trade, inance, migraion, culture, etc. Speeding up of global interacions and processes which increase the velocity of the difusion of ideas, goods, informaion, capital, and people. Impact where the efects of distant events can be highly signiicant elsewhere and speciic local developments can come to have considerable global consequences: debaing causes, economic determinism, long distance trade networks, monetary systems, capitalism iii. Increase of american hegemony: spread of militarism and terrorism f, coninued oppression of women/children.
