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.