ANTB20H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Arjun Appadurai, Anthony Giddens, Social Capital
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Globalization as a concept refers both the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness about the world as a whole". People are constantly moving around, barriers between groups are breaking: intensification of connections and our increasing consciousness of this development, rise of the free market economy (more neo-liberal policies and less trade barriers) down. Space-time compression and stretching of social life across time and space as to make possible action at a distance of time. Remote encounters win out over face to face interaction. Ways of being social are no longer the same. Before in order to make transactions, build relationships you need face-to-face interactions, but what"s happening now is that these things don"t matter as much: can be in two different time zones to do business. Globalist versus skeptics: the great globalization debate is between those who are skeptical (the skeptics about the process and those who accept is as a reality (the globalist .
