ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Glocalization, Walmart, Anti-Globalization Movement
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Circuit creates new link between people. We think of boundaries in space that are changed & rethought. There is a global effort in making an object making a true global commodity. Time & space if you need help, call centers can come from india. Ideas of profit, efficiency, who can do it for less, etc. Economics: similarity of economic conditions & policies across national boundaries (h. p. Sociology: globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world & the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole (robert robertson 1992). History: globalization is a long term historical process of growing worldwide connectedness (nederveen pieterse 1995). Many ways to apprehend the phenomena of globalization. Buddhist parable: blind scholars & the elephant. The process of integrating human populations of the world economically, socially, politically, & culturally into a single world system or community (peoples & bailey 2011). Multidimensional focuses on many dimensions of globalization.
