The Concept Of Globalization
The Concept of Globalization
Globalization has become one of the common catchphrases frequently used by people all over the world. However many scholars referred the 1990s as the decade of globalization and like any other social phenomenon, globalization has brewed different interpretations since then. However there are varied definitions of globalization as reflected in the arguments below. According to Baylis, J., et el. (2008, p. 16), globalization is simply the widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness. Giddens, A. (1999:21) in one of his lecture series organized by BBC (British Broadcasting Company), he defines globalization 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‟. According to Brown, G. W. (2008, p. 45), ,6globalization in its simplest form, encompasses a growing interconnection between peoples, nations, cultures, governments, environments, economies and indeterminate global networks that are ultimately bound by the spherical shape of the earth‟. He continues to argue that, the direction in which globalization is moving is neither simply positive nor negative, for it is both.
Kiely, R. (2007, p. 77) defines globalization as „ a set of social relations which have expanded beyond older territorial boundaries, with the result that interconnectedness is not only international, but somehow global‟. More so Thomas, A., & Allen, T., (2000, p. 348 argue that globalization is a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transformations – assessed in terms of their extensity, velocity and impact – generating a transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power‟. In his argument in the paper about the impact of globalization on culture, Abdulraheem, Y. states that globalization
Globalization has become one of the common catchphrases frequently used by people all over the world. However many scholars referred the 1990s as the decade of globalization and like any other social phenomenon, globalization has brewed different interpretations since then. However there are varied definitions of globalization as reflected in the arguments below. According to Baylis, J., et el. (2008, p. 16), globalization is simply the widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness. Giddens, A. (1999:21) in one of his lecture series organized by BBC (British Broadcasting Company), he defines globalization 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‟. According to Brown, G. W. (2008, p. 45), ,6globalization in its simplest form, encompasses a growing interconnection between peoples, nations, cultures, governments, environments, economies and indeterminate global networks that are ultimately bound by the spherical shape of the earth‟. He continues to argue that, the direction in which globalization is moving is neither simply positive nor negative, for it is both.
Kiely, R. (2007, p. 77) defines globalization as „ a set of social relations which have expanded beyond older territorial boundaries, with the result that interconnectedness is not only international, but somehow global‟. More so Thomas, A., & Allen, T., (2000, p. 348 argue that globalization is a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transformations – assessed in terms of their extensity, velocity and impact – generating a transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power‟. In his argument in the paper about the impact of globalization on culture, Abdulraheem, Y. states that globalization
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