SCPL3606 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Axis Powers, East India Company

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Social Policy
• Course: SCPL3606
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Political globalisation; political relations that exist at a global level, including inter-national relations. Cultural globalisation:cultural influences that exist at a global level, between and among various nations. Is globalisation a recent phenomena the perspective adopted by ritzer & dean is that globalization is a relatively recent development with its major points of origin occurring after the close of ww ii. View aligns with americanisation: the emergence of multinational corporations (mncs). The world"s great corporations can be traced back to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries however, over time, those corporations did more and more business internationally. Ford and: the demise of the soviet union and the end of the cold war. the division of the world into mainly capitalist and communist spheres rapidly eroded as did all sorts of barriers that existed between them. Major parts of the world were opened for the first time since the early twentieth century to all sorts of global flows.