What is globalization? / Kim Yoon(김윤)

Summary

Robertson and White refer to 'globalization' in this article from a comprehensive yet concrete perspective. There are various subconcepts in globalization. For example, global governance, global culture, human rights, migration and the creation of diasporas, transnational connections of serious kinds and so on. Today, the definition of globalization does not only appear in political discourse, but many writers also want to define it. But globalization has not yet entered the academic world. Velho, who appeared in the article, looked at globalization as a target, perspective, and horizon. Among them, for example, the view of globalization as a target is that globalization is a simple process. This view is not very possible, but 'in objective ways' it may continue to look at a particular target. According to his argument, globalization can be seen as the movement of the world as a whole.
The most prevalent concept for globalization is 'increasing connectivity'. There are also cases where connectivity and consciousness are thought to be connected together, and attention to connectivity is needed rather than consciousness. Both concepts are actually studied in different fields. Connectivity is studied by experts in political, economic and international relations, and consciousness is studied by anthropologists, sociologists and cultural historians.

Meanwhile, many articles on globalization say that globalization has three dimensions. The three dimensions are politics, economics and culture. Recently, cultural aspects have been discussed along with economic aspects. One example is 'McDonaldization'. This is a social phenomenon defined by Ritzer, claiming that people's practices shown by McDonaldization are connected to economic globalization. Also, not only McDonald's but also various franchise restaurants should have homogeneity in the society. The phenomenon of cultural and economic aspects emerging together in globalization also has a paradoxical appearance, which shows the complexity of thinking while also showing the poverty of thinking.
The question of the form of globalization was raised by a man named Emmanuel Wallerstein. He thought he could define the world similarly, as we call a single place. His ideas will only be possible in such things as the Soviet era and Japanese imperialism during World War II. We are living in the age of the world system. We also have numerous global discourse in such a system.

To sum up, globalization has two main characteristics. It is the connection of the world and the increase in world consciousness. Globalization also exists in the form of proper appearance in the right circumstances. Among them, humans mainly understand globalization in terms of society, economy, politics, and culture. We need an effort to analyze globalization without recognizing it as something specific.

Interesting

It was interesting that there was an attempt to define globalization that reflected the national class. I don't think we can define globalization concisely in one sentence as it was in this article, but I think we should consider almost all the national contexts of the world equally in the course of discussing it.

It was also interesting that McDonaldization, which I had learned interestingly before, appeared as an example of globalization. At that time, I remember learning the negative aspects of McDonaldization, and this time I could learn how to look at McDonaldization in terms of globalization.

Discussion

Besides the definition of globalization, is there an example of a concept defined with a differential reflection of national and social context?