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Introduction To The Study of Globalization

This document provides an overview of globalization for a lesson on the contemporary world. It defines globalization as the free exchange of goods, services, culture, and people between countries. It notes globalization has led to the removal of import taxes and opening of borders to skilled workers. The document also discusses competing perspectives on globalization, including seeing it as inevitable market integration versus an imbalanced system favoring wealthy nations. It provides concepts to include in a concept map on globalization like multiculturalism and cultural homogenization.

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Introduction To The Study of Globalization

This document provides an overview of globalization for a lesson on the contemporary world. It defines globalization as the free exchange of goods, services, culture, and people between countries. It notes globalization has led to the removal of import taxes and opening of borders to skilled workers. The document also discusses competing perspectives on globalization, including seeing it as inevitable market integration versus an imbalanced system favoring wealthy nations. It provides concepts to include in a concept map on globalization like multiculturalism and cultural homogenization.

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(Lesson 1) The Contemporary World

NORMAN C. LINGAHAN, MA.Ed.


Instructor, College of Teacher Education
1. Differentiate the competing
conceptions of Globalization
2. Identifying the underlying
philosophies of the varying definitions
of globalization
3. Agree on a working definition of
Globalization
4. Explain the positive and negative
aspects of globalization according to the
various perspectives of experts and
communities affected by it
5. Construct their meaning of
Globalization using a concept map
Students will be asked to fill-
in the blank concept map
about globalization in a ½
crosswise.
GLOBALIZATION
Refers to the
existence of free
change of goods,
services, culture, and
even people,
between and among
countries.(Theodore
Levitt)
Through this,
countries have
discarded taxes on
imported goods
and opened their
doors to highly
skilled workers
and professionals
Globalization leads people to
become more interested to travel,
learn new languages and immerse
themselves to the new culture and
lifestyles
Globalization is not static but an
ongoing process. It involves the
inexorable integration of markets,
nation-states and technologies to a
degree never witnessed before.
( Thomas Friedman)
“ It is the process by which the world is
becoming increasingly interconnected as
a result of massively increased trade and
cultural exchange has increased the
production of goods and services has
been taking place for hundred of years,
but has speeded up enormously over the
half-century
(- British Broadcasting Corporation)
Refers to the
process and
systems that
pertains to
relationships
between nation-
states.
It encompasses
process and systems
to “ global-social
relations- or
interactions between
international and or
transnational
entities.
1. Globalization is about the
liberalization and global
integration of markets
2. Globalization is inevitable and
irreversible
3. Nobody is in charge of globalization
4. Globalization benefits everyone
5. Globalization furthers the spread of
democracy in the world
6. Globalization requires war on terror
The most dominant economic
framework and system in
many parts of the world.
It is premised on the “ profit
motive”
It partly explains why people tend to
buy stocks of profitable companies.
Why government of the third world
countries allowing mining
corporations to operate even in
places where ecosystem is
vulnerable
Another philosophy, which adherents that free
markets free trade will set free the creative
potential and the entrepreneurial spirit which is
built into spontaneous order of any human
society, and thereby lead to more individual
liberty and well-being, and more efficient
allocation of resources
It considered highly imbalanced
system of globalization that favors the
First-world over the third-world
corporations over citizens and
communities, and profit seeking over
environmental sustainability.
Altering or changing the current
system of globalization to make it
more humane, more pro-environment
and more grassroots- driven rather
than staying to top-down imposition.
1. Multiculturalism and Multiligualism
2. Free trade
3. Cultural and Educational Exchanges
4. Migration
5. Global Cooperation
1. Linguistic Hegemony of English
2. Cultural Homogenization
3. Third World Dependence on the First World
4. Global income and wealth inequality
5. Racism and Anti-Migrant Sentiment
1. Read the Globalization of Economic
Relations (Chapter 9)
2. Answer the Discussion Questions (1-3)
with one paragraph per question.

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