'Covering a wide range of distinct political, economic, and cultural trends, the term “globalization” has quickly become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debate. In popular discourse, globalization often functions as little more than a synonym for one or more of the following phenomena: the pursuit of classical liberal, or “free market”, policies in the world economy “economic liberalization”, the growing dominance of western, or even American, forms of political, economic, and cultural life “westernization” or “Americanization”, the proliferation of new information technologies (the “Internet Revolution”, as well as the notion that humanity stands at the threshold of realizing one single unified community in which major sources of social conflict have vanished “global integration”'
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/
'If we are talking about the “cultural”, we are concerned with the symbolic construction, articulation, and dissemination of meaning. Given that language, music, and images constitute the major forms of symbolic expression, they assume special significance in the sphere of culture … Yet cultural globalization did not start with the worldwide dissemination of rock „n‟ roll, Coca-Cola, or football'
Manfred B. Steger, Globalization: A very Short Introduction, page 69
American sociologist George Ritzer coined the term “McDonaldization” to describe the wide-ranging sociocultural processes by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world'
Manfred B. Steger, Globalization: A very Short Introduction, page 71
The Internet
These effects argued by McLuhan hasn't happened and as a society, we are desensitised to this and are not sympathetic. We are more separated than ever due to this technology and different cultures are realising that there values are being taken over, Globalisation has reshaped our world in a more negative way.
Jihad McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber
Centripetal Forces- bringing the world together in uniform global society
Centrifugal Forces- tearing the world apart in tribal wars
Feel like there values are being destroyed and take over by the world
The main problems with Globalisation:
Sovereignty: Challenges to the idea of a nation-state
Accountability: Transnational forces and organisations: who controls them? Having multinational companies means they are almost impossible to police. Are Businesses are more powerful than Governments? Will passing laws change anything?
We start to question identity, who are we? Is there a loss of identity through
"We are not moving towards a cultural rainbow that reflects the diversity of the worlds existing cultures. Rather, we are witnessing the rise of an increasing homogenised popular culture underwritten by a Western Culture Industry based in New York, Hollywood, London and Milan"
Is the free market rigged? Massive companies own the news stations. For example Time warner who own cartoon network, CNN, Tinc, HBO etc.
News corporations divide world into ‘territories’ of importance
1. North America
2. Western Europe, Japan & Australia
3. Developing countries, economies and regional producers such as India, China, Brazil
4. The rest of the world
Chomsky and Herman's Propaganda Model - 5 Basic Filters
Ownership
Funding
Sourcing
Flak
Ideology (Eg, Anti-Islam)
Sustainable development, sustainable growth, and sustainable use have been used interchangeably, as if their meanings were the same. They are not. Sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms: nothing physical can grow indefinitely. Sustainable use, is only applicable to renewable resources. Sustainable development is used in this context to mean: improving the quality of human life whilst living within the carrying capacity of the ecosystems.
"Most things are not designed for the needs of the people but for the needs of the manufacturers to sell to people." ~ Papanek. V, 1983, p46
Ideology (Eg, Anti-Islam)
Sustainable development, sustainable growth, and sustainable use have been used interchangeably, as if their meanings were the same. They are not. Sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms: nothing physical can grow indefinitely. Sustainable use, is only applicable to renewable resources. Sustainable development is used in this context to mean: improving the quality of human life whilst living within the carrying capacity of the ecosystems.
"Most things are not designed for the needs of the people but for the needs of the manufacturers to sell to people." ~ Papanek. V, 1983, p46
