Globalization
Ritzer (2015, p. 6)
Liquid tends to melt whatever stand in its path (especially solids).
Ritzer (2003)
Attitudes toward globalization depend, among other things, on whether one gains or loses from it.
Solidity
Barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things
Narrow and exclusive definitions
Better justified but can be limiting in the sense that their application adhere only to particular definitions.
Broad and exclusive type of definition
Can include a variety of issues but does not shed light on the implications of globalization due to its vagueness.
Concept of globalization
Complex and multifaceted
A useless task
Defining globalization
Arjun Appadurai (1996)
Globalization is a 'world of things' that have different speeds, axes, points of origin and termination, and varied relationships to institutional structures in different regions, nations, or societies.
Ritzer (2015)
Globalization is a transplanetary process or a set of process involving increasing liquidity and the growing multidirectional flows of people, objects, places, and information as well as the structures they encounter and create that are barriers to, or expedite, those flowsq
Poppi (1997)
Globalization is the debate about it
Cesare Poppi
Globalization is the debate and the debate is globalization.
Ohmae (1992)
Globalization means the onset of borderless world.
Liquidity
Increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the contemporary world.
Globalization could either or both
Integration and/or fragmentation
Al-Rhodan, 2006
It cannot be contained within a specific time frame, all people, and all situations.
Flow
Movement of people, things, places, and information brought by the growing "porosity" of global limitations.
Bauman, 2003
Of these changes, one can say that Globalization is a very important change, if not, the "most important"
The perspective of the person who defines globalization
Shapes its definition
Crucial elements of globalization
Space and time.
Robert Cox
The characteristics of the globalization trend include the internationalizing of production, the new international division of labor, new migratory movements from South to North, the new competitive environment that accelerates these processes, and the internationalizing of the states... making states into agencies of globalization world.
Cartier, 2001
The forces (the liquid ones) made political boundaries more permeable to the flow of people and things.
Liquidity
The metaphor that could best describe globalization
Thomas Larsson (2001)
The process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer.
Albrow, 1996
The reality and omnipresence of globalization makes us see ourselves as part of what we refer as the "global age"
Liquid phenomena
Their movement is difficult to stop
Martin Khor
regarded globalization as colonization.