Globalization Concepts Quiz

Globalization Concepts

• Liquidity: Refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the contemporary world.

• Flows: Movement of people, things, places, and information brought by growing porosity of global limitations.

• Homogeneity: Increasing sameness in the world as cultural inputs, economic factors, and political orientations of societies expand to create common practices, same economies, and similar forms of government.

• Heterogeneity: Creation of various cultural practices, new economies, and political groups because of the interaction of elements from different societies in the world.

• Glocalization: Interpretation of the global and local resulting in unique outcomes in different geographic areas.

• Deterritorialization: Difficulty in tying culture to a specific geographic point of origin.

Cultural and Social Concepts

• McDonaldization: The process by which western societies are dominated by the principles of fast-food restaurants.

• Labor Migration: Involves the flow of less skilled and unskilled workers as well as illegal immigrants who live on the margins of the host society.

• Cultural Differentialism: Emphasizes the fact that cultures are essentially different and are superficially affected by global flows.

• Cultural Relativism: Practice of anthropologists in order to understand diverse cultures and the uniqueness of one's culture without prejudice and biases.

Mobility and Migration

• Solidity: Barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things.

• Diaspora: Term that describes migrant communities.

• Virtual Diaspora: Use of internet to maintain connections with co-migrants.

• Ethnoscapes: Shifting landscapes of people across culture and borders.

Ideas and Perspectives

• Ideoscapes: Global flow of ideologies.

• Regionalization: Societal integration and often undirected process of social and economic interaction.

• Cultural Convergence: Approach that stresses homogeneity introduced by globalization.

• Hardwired: Perspective of the origin of globalization that relies on tracing the ancestors from Africa.

• Cycle: Perspective of the origin of globalization that points out about the disappearance and reappearance of globalization.

• Epoch: Perspective of the origin of globalization that is also called the "waves" of history.

Demography and Economy

• Demographic Transition: Singular historical period where mortality and fertility rates decline from high to low levels in a particular country or region.

• Scientism: Phenomenon that is being advocated by globalization that is in contrary with religion.

• Financescapes: Global movement of money.

• Post Cold War: Considered to be the last period of epoch according to the origin of globalization.