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Globalization can be loosely defined as trade networks between disparate geographic regions, leading to the exchange of goods, people, and ideas. Improved technology and transportation tools, industrialization, and advancements in market economies have created a world in which globalization has become inevitable. As Held & McGrew (2003) point out, the evolution of physical, normative, and symbolic infrastructure has facilitated globalization since the industrial age, giving rise to banking systems, normative trade policies including tariffs, and the use of English as a global language (p. 3). Globalization has entered public discourse relatively recently, and is "a relatively new idea in the social sciences," (Sklair, 1999, p. 1) but globalization has been a part of human civilization for over a thousand years, as the Silk Road and other long distance trade routes have created links between cultures that have been transformative as well as irreversible.
Defining globalization can be tricky, as there are many different models of globalization and perceptions of it, depending on the cultural and historical conditions in which its systems take place. Globalization also does not affect all people in all societies equally; the ages of colonization and imperialism prove that globalization can easily become systems of exploitation based on abuse of power rather than on mutual benefit. The postmodern models of globalization may be shifting gradually toward more egalitarian forms of...
Whether globalization is focused solely on trade and economic exchange or on other factors like cultural imperialism and appropriation also impact the definitions of the term globalization. Globalization affects the creation and identification of social issues and social problems because of the way worldviews and cognitive schemas are changed as a result of the process of exchange.
Social science has moved beyond a simplistic understanding of globalization that focuses only on political and economic issues to observe and measure the effect of globalization on discourse and especially on how social issues or problems are conceptualized and addressed. For example, globalization discourse has an impact on social norms and moral relativism, allowing for the emergence of universal human rights.
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Freedom in cross-border trade is a significant but not sole part of the definition of globalization. There is no absolutely unfettered trade; trade is constrained by any number of factors from tariffs to supply and demand. Globalization is more about the potential for trade to occur, but that trade is not just material in nature and can be an exchange of…
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Held D. & McGrew, A. (2003). "The Great Globalization Debate." Excerpt from The Global Transformations Reader.
Sklair, L. (1999). "Competing Conceptions of Globalization." Journal of World Systems Research. V (2). 143-163.
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Teachers will continue to lead the educational process, but they need to be very sensitive about the issues facing the society as a whole and the children as individuals in this society. Then, education becomes a means of identifying the issues in the life of the students and gaining knowledge and understanding about them. Education in this global society also has to acknowledge that cultural diversity is valued and
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