What is globalization - Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White
1) 'What is globalization?' is continuosly question what follows many general sense. Such as include governance, global citizenship, human rights, migration and creation of diasporas and kinds and so on. We have to concerned matters of particular topics in globalization. So we should be emphasized that in major respect in the frequently used phrase and essentially contested concept. And there is deviation with respect to ideas about globalization. So a number of scholors speak globalization in the plural, and it plays not a single process. Velho said globalization as an object, a perspective and a horizon. It means being addressed from an Archimedean standpoint. This is not entirely possible, but nonetheless with sufficient reflexivity. So, in the Velho paradigm, globalization may be understood as the direction in which the world considered as a whole is moving.
The parameters of the general proceses of globalization is very widely, thought tha tht emost important single defining feature of globalization. In Huntington's argument, civilization conflicts would revolve above all upon profound differences in conceptons of human life. It would be extremely foolish to deny the significance of the material resource aspects of recent international conflicts of to neglect the great salience of military and strategic considerations.
There are three major dimensions of dimensions of globalization. such as: the economic, the political and the cultural. Ritzer has influentially called Mcdonaldization. Even if Ritzer has not told about it in this way, McDonaldization would be spoken in form of cultural globalization. There were many concerned about cultural imperialism, it was spread all around the America. Others like Nike, Starbucks, the Gap, KFC and so on. Founding consumption of goods or services around the world in a relatively homogeneous way it it necessary to adapt brands to local circumstsnces.
The issue of the form of globalization was raised many scholoars, especially Imaanuel Wallersten.
Wallerstein raised an extremely important point in the early stages of his crucial work on the making of what he calls the modern world-system. When he spoke of the different ways in which the world could have become the singular ‘system’ that it has now more or less actually become.
One of the dangers of undisciplined critique is tha tglobalization simply becomes a negative buzzword, something to emply aas a source of blame for each and every 'problem' on this planet.
2)There are interesting things mentioned about cultural imperialism. It is practice of promoting, distinguishing, separating, or aritificially injecting the culture or language of one naton in to another(from Wiki).Despit of this phenomenon there has been found different ways. In other words, even though adaptation to the local may promote heterogeneity, the way in whicch such projects of the kimd are implemented is frequently very similar across much of the world.
3)Does McDonaldization influence to the globalization in a positive way or nagative way? I think it would be many positive way and also have many nagative way too.
2010044728 Yirang Kim
Good points, nothing is ever white or black, good or bad. We will discuss many of those aspects in our coming lectures!
ReplyDeleteAs Piotr said, it has both sides, but I kind of feel that McDonaldization has more of negative connotation of globalization than positive one because it kills local companies , or maybe I don't think McDonald is a good company which provides healthy food..?
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