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Perspectives on Globalization Concepts

1. Anthony Giddens defines globalization as the intensification of worldwide social relations, which link distant localities such that local events are shaped by distant events and vice versa. 2. Theodore Levitt describes globalization as changes in social behaviors and technology that allow companies to sell the same products worldwide. 3. Robert Cox argues that globalization has widened the gap in living conditions between the globalized majority population and a small segment integrated into global production and financial networks.

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Perspectives on Globalization Concepts

1. Anthony Giddens defines globalization as the intensification of worldwide social relations, which link distant localities such that local events are shaped by distant events and vice versa. 2. Theodore Levitt describes globalization as changes in social behaviors and technology that allow companies to sell the same products worldwide. 3. Robert Cox argues that globalization has widened the gap in living conditions between the globalized majority population and a small segment integrated into global production and financial networks.

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Name: Vea Ann A.

Cantollas Date: January 22, 2023


Year/Section: BSMT-2B

ACTIVITY 2: THE CONCEPT MAP OF GLOBALIZATION

The Contemporary World

I. Fill in the table that will provide you with the different perspectives and meanings of globalization. Do not include
the definition/s presented in the previous module discussion.

Proponent Scope / Meaning


1. Ex: Kenichi Ohmae (1992) Globalization means the onset of the borderless world.

2. Anthony Giddens (1990) Globalization can thus 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.
3. Theodore Levitt (1983) Globalization is the changes in social behaviors and technology that allowed companies
to sell the same products around the world
4. Thomas Friedman (n.d.) Defines globalization as the world integration of finance markets, nation states, and
technologies within a free market capitalism on a scale never experienced.

5. Robert Cox (1993) Globalization widened the gap in living conditions between the majority of the
population and a relatively small segment integrated into the global production and
the world financial networks.
6. Paul James (n.d.) Globalization is treated as an uneven and layered process of spatial expansion, not
simply one of disorder, fragmentation or rupture.
7. Manfred Steger (2014) Globalization refers to the expansion and intensification of social relations and
consciousness across world-time and world-space
8. Joseph Stiglitz (2002) Globalization is the removal of barriers to free trade and the closer integration of
national economies

9. Ulrich Beck (2002) Globalization has transformed the old categories of political action away from the
national state.

10. Martin Khor (1995) Martin Khor (1995) has declared that globalization is what we in the third world have
for several centuries called colonization

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II. From the given meaning above pick the keyword/s that might highlight the totality of globalization.

changes in social behaviors and Ex: 1. borderless world the intensification of worldwide
technology social relations

the world integration of finance


widened the gap in living conditions
markets
Globalization
an uneven and layered process of transformed the old categories of
spatial expansion political action away from the national
state.

the expansion and intensification of


social relations and consciousness what we in the third world have for
across world-time and world-space several centuries called colonization

the removal of barriers to free trade


and the closer integration of national
economies

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