Sociology of globalization
Blog assignment 1
Summary :
‘What is globalization?’. In this article, Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White say, Many different topics are included the rubric of globalization included many different topics such as global governance, global citizenship, human rights, migration and the creation of diasporas, transnational connections of various kinds and so on. Thus globalization is hard to define and there are various differences in perspective. In many developing countries, globalization is considered a privileged social contexts. Therefore globalization should be considered pluralistic.
Velho has spoken of globalization as an object, a perspective and a horizon. The object approach involves thinking of globalization as a single process. The world is complex and pluralistic. In the Velho paradigm, globalization may be understood as the direction in which the world considered as a whole is moving.
The need for two views was previously split but now converge. It's a multi-dimensional view of globalization.
In this article, globalization should be considered in many ways, such as economic, cultural and political factors. The 'McDonaldization' that 'Ritzer' said can also be described as cultural globalization and cultural imperialism. Although there are cultural adjustments, they generally maintain a uniform homogeneity.
Economic cooperation systems such as WTO, NATO are part of economic globalization, which increases the interdependence of a cross-border world.
The issue of the form of globalization was raised by Immanuel Wallerstein. Wallerstein raised an extremely important point about modern world-system – the world capitalist system. Following Wallerstein, that the world has not become a single place under the aegis.
‘Glocalization’ is a combination of globalization and location. It is a newly coined term that has not been used in the past. It refers to a management strategy to adapt to the local culture while pursuing globalization and satisfy the characteristics and needs of local customers. Product standardization that does not take into account the country-specific culture or customer preferences of the overseas market may result in inability to satisfy local consumers. Therefore, localization strategies that differentiate and produce products according to local market needs are important and localization-based management is a requirement of global companies.
In article, there have been a number of developments among analysts of globalization leading to fairly widespread concern with the relationship between globalization and history or globalizations and histories, emphasizing that globalization is a narrower concept than that of ‘mere’ global change. In fact, one of the most notable features of the highly compressed world we live in today is the often controversial rewriting of history in groups, countries, and regions that members of such entities can have 'real identity.' The current almost worldwide concern on the part of not only intellectuals but also politicians and religious leaders with national(local) identities is a very good example of this. In fact, concerns about globalization and 'local identity' are certainly good examples of contradictory relationships between the nation-state and processes of globalization
At the centre of attempt to characterize globalization are the following. First, globalization consists primarily of two major directional tendencies, increasing global connectivity and increasing global consciousness. Second, globalization has a particular form like UN, WTO. Third, globalization is constituted by four major facets of human life –the cultural, the social, the political and the economic.
Interesting point/ What I learn :
I could think a lot through the globalization class and ‘what is globalization’. In fact, The article was little difficult, but 'MACDONALDIZATION ' and 'Globalization' were the most interesting point. Globalization was also interesting in that many factors should be considered and multidimensional. It was impressive that although cultural globalization are similar overall, they change according to regional characteristics. In addition, many examples and many sociologists' stories were difficult, but they helped us understand globalization.
'Globalization' had been thought to be a vague and consistent definition for me. However, I came to think that these articles, examples, and 'Globalization' classes can have very various definitions depending on the social situation and contexts. In particular, cultural globalization examples such as WESTERNIZATION, MACDONALDIZATION and AMERICANIZATION have given us a pluralistic view of how to view globalization.
Global economic cooperations such as the WTO, EU, NATO, and OECD are representative examples of economic globalization. While focusing on the positive aspects of globalization, the developing countries that do not belong to these organizations thought they would be left out. For developing countries, globalization was thought to be only a privileged cooperative system, while marginalized developing countries were left behind in their development. I think these negative aspects can also be considered to achieve globalization of true meaning.
Discussion:
Globalization has progressed much faster now than in the past and is still ongoing. In the future, globalization will proceed in more or more areas than it is now. Nowadays, Globalization is going on, both culturally, economically and politically. On a broader pluralistic level, I would like to know if there is any aspect of globalization going on. Besides politics, culture and economics, I want to think about what areas of globalization will take place.
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