GLBL 210 Chapter NA: Steger, Ch. 1, Globalization
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1 globalization: a contested concept reality of intensifying global interdependence: the tensions between localism and globalism reached unprecedented levels precisely because the links connecting them have been growing faster than at any time in history. Globalization does not lead to more globalization; globalization globalization. Globalization refers to a set of social processes that appear to transform our present social condition of weakening nationality into one of globality. Global imaginary- concept referring to people"s growing consciousness of belonging to a global community (not that national and local communal frameworks have lost power to provide home or identity) Destabilizes and unsettles the conventional parameters of understanding within which people imagine their communal existence. The creation of new and the multiplication of existing, social networks and activities that cut across traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries. Expansion and the stretching of social relations, activities, and interdependencies. Intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities.
