98 5 Globalization and Glocalization PETER BEYER Globalization is a relatively recent term. It appeared in English-language usage only in the 1960s‚ albeit without the heavy connotations that it began to carry in the 1990s. Other similar expressions‚ however‚ already popularized the core meaning of all people on earth living in a single social space‚ notably Marshall McLuhan’s notion of a ‘global village’ (McLuhan 1964). Entering social scientific discourse in the early 1980s‚ globalization itself
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GLOBALIZATION OF MARKETS Theodore Levitt is often considered to be the first to recognize the trend towards globalization and states that: “companies must learn to operate as if the world were one large market – ignoring superficial regional and national differences…” In addition‚ he argues that the companies that do not adapt to the new global realities will become the victims of those that do. Theodore Levitt’s 1983 article about the globalization of markets is one of the most discussed
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Anthropology Today In society today‚ the discipline of anthropology has made a tremendous shift from the practices it employed years ago. Anthropologists of today have a very different focus from their predecessors‚ who would focus on relating problems of distant peoples to the Western world. In more modern times‚ their goal has become much more local‚ in focusing on human problems and issues within the societies they live. This paper will identify the roles anthropologists today play‚ such as where
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A Residential School Legacy From the late 1800s to the 1980s‚ more than 100‚000 First Nations children in Canada attended residential schools (Llewellyn‚ 2008‚ p. 258).2 To attend these schools‚ children were taken away from their families and communities. At the schools‚ the children suffered from emotional‚ physical‚ sexual and spiritual abuse (Steckley & Cummins‚ 2001‚ p. 191). The worst abuses were often used as punishment for speaking their indigenous languages (Petten‚ 2007‚ p. 22). The
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INTRODUCTION The spread of globalization around the world has been fed by many factors. Though the political decisions of economic globalization get all the headlines‚ it is however‚ institutions like Multinational corporations that power it along. The power and influence of multinational corporations in the world is one that cannot be doubted. In fact‚ the new game for world power is no longer Geo- political but Geo-economic. Its main actors are no longer the former world aristocracy of great powers
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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus Abstract After many centuries‚ a lot of controversy still surrounds Christopher Columbus. He remains to be a strange figure in history regarded as a famous explorer and a great mariner who made many discoveries in his days. Other people still regard him as a visionary and a national hero while others chose to remember him as a brutal and greedy person who used the rest of the humanity for his own selfish gains. Despite the fact that there have been protests in
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“The Future of Globalization” What exactly is globalisation? Before I talk about the future of globalization it is first of all important to understand what it truly means. From my research on the topic I feel that the following definition by the IMF is the most accurate. They describe globalization as the “growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing volume and a variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services and of international capital flows and also
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the greatest military commander that the world has ever seen. He was born in July of 356 B.C to King Philip II of Macedonia and Olympias. Since his youth‚ Alexander was tutored and trained by great philosophers such as Aristotle and Leonidas. His legacy of greatness started with the taming of the wild horse‚ Bucephalus. Alexander of Macedonia is worthy of the title‚ Great‚ due to his strategic military operations‚ his expansion of the Greek Empire‚ and the cultural diffusion of the Greeks across
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Historical Perspective Essay Sara Jones Analysis of Research Reports/NUR/518 January 14‚ 2013 Susan Steele Moses Historical Perspective Essay Nursing has been and will always be an evolving discipline. From Florence Nightingale‚ to modern day‚ nursing has evolved to be what it is today because of the efforts made through research. Nursing research has contributed greatly to the practice and standards of nursing. Nursing research was not always as popular
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Molly Moar May 14‚ 2013 Social 10-1 Economic Globalization and Cultural Contact Economic Globalization and Cultural Contact Cultural contact is what occurs when two cultures come in contact with one another‚ though media‚ trade‚ or immigration. The film Avatar is based on cultural contact and the outcomes of this concept. Pocahontas‚ another example of a film based on cultural contact‚ both films are relatively alike‚ they show ethnocentrism to other races until two people from
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