POL 1102 Study Guide - Cash Crop, Debt Relief, Silk Road

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Ivaylo Grouev

Document Summary

The concept of globalization reflects sense of an immense enlargement of world communications. As well as of the horizon of a world market, both of which seem far more tangible and immediate than in earlier stages of modernity. Globalization compresses the time and space aspects of social relations. Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole. Globalization refers to all those processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society, global society. Globalization can be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. Die globalisierung global networking that has welded together previously disparate and isolated communities on this planet into mutual dependence and unity of.