GS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: 1Worldspace, Hunter-Gatherer, Glocalization
Steger Chapter 1 and 2
Chapter 1 - Globalization: A Contested Concept
Globalization: the myriad forms of connectivity and flows linking the local (and national) to the
global - as well as the West to the East, and North to the South… set of social processes that
appear to transform our present social condition of conventional nationality into one of globality
- Dynamic process rather than static condition
- Different views of definition, scale, causation, chronology, impact, trajectories, and policy
outcomes
Glocalization, global-local nexus
Hybridization: mixing of different cultural elements and styles → accelerated by globalization
Globality: social condition characterized by tight global economic, political, cultural, and
environmental interconnections and flows that make most of the currently existing borders and
boundaries irrelevant
Global imaginary: peoples growing consciousness of global connectivity
● Creation of new social networks
● Multiplication of existing connections
● Expansion and stretching of social relations
● Intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities
Globalization refers to the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness
around world-time and world-space
Chapter 2 - Globalization and History: is globalization a new phenomenon?
● The prehistoric period (10 000 BCE - 3500 BCE)
○ Global dispersion of species
○ Contact was limited and coincidental
○ Hunter / gatherer to villages / towns
● The premodern period (3500 BCE - 1500 CE)
○ Invention of writing coincided with invention of wheel (carts/roads)
○ East west orientation of eurasia's major continental axis = diffusion
○ Later premodern period was age of empires (long distance communication and
exchange of ideas etc)
○ Tech innovations in china → trade
○ Sprawling networks = pop increase and growth of urban centres
● The early modern period (1500-1750)
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Document Summary
Different views of definition, scale, causation, chronology, impact, trajectories, and policy outcomes. Hybridization: mixing of different cultural elements and styles accelerated by globalization. Globality: social condition characterized by tight global economic, political, cultural, and environmental interconnections and flows that make most of the currently existing borders and boundaries irrelevant. Global imaginary: peoples growing consciousness of global connectivity. Intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities. Globalization refers to the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness around world-time and world-space. The prehistoric period (10 000 bce - 3500 bce) Hunter / gatherer to villages / towns. The premodern period (3500 bce - 1500 ce) Invention of writing coincided with invention of wheel (carts/roads) East west orientation of eurasia"s major continental axis = diffusion. Later premodern period was age of empires (long distance communication and exchange of ideas etc) Sprawling networks = pop increase and growth of urban centres.
