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The Contemporary World - Introduction
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Around the World
Introduction
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The Contemporary Wold
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The circumstances and ideas of the present age; "in modern times like these"
The components of The Contemporary World
- Global Age
- Globalization
The Contemporary Word
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Global Age
Refers to a period of time when there is a prevailing sense of the interconnectedness of all human beings, of a common fate for the human species and of a threat to its life on this Earth.
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Globalization
Means integration of economies and societies through cross country flows of information, ideas, technologies, goods, services, capital, finance and people. The essence of globalisation is connectivity. Cross border integration can have several dimensions - cultural, social, political and economic.
Globalization
Transplanetary processes involving increasing liquidity and growing multi-directional flows as well as the structures they enciunter and create
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TRANSNATIONAL
Processes that interconnect individuals and social groups across specific geo-political borders,
Transnational
Transnationality
Rise of new communities and formation of new social identifies and relations that cannot be defined as nation-states
Transnationality
Globality
Globality
Omnipresence of the process of globalization. Signifies social condition
cultural
political
sociological
technological
geographical
ecological
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Concepts
Metaphors in
contemporary
World
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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Metaphors are often compared with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile
Solidity
“Solidity,” the characteristic of being limited to one place. Solidity also refers to the persistence of barriers that. prevented free movement of people, information, and objects in that era.
Solidity
Liquidity
Increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the global age.
Liquidity
Heavy
Difficult to move.
Heavy
Light
Easier to move.
Light
Flows
Movement of people, things, information, and places due in part of increasing porosity of global barriers.
From Solid to Liquidity
From Heavy to Light
Flows
The World is Watching
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Where are You? Disssenting Opinions About Globalization
Rejectionist
Rejectionist
Scholars who dismiss the utility of globalization as an analytical concept typically advance their arguments from within a larger criticism of similarly vague words employed in academic discourse.
Skeptics
Skeptics
Emphasizes the limited nature of current globalizing processes.
Emphasizes that the majority of economic activity around the world still remains primarily national in origin and scope.
Modifiers
Modifiers
Critics disputes the novelty of the process, implying that the label ‘globalization’ has often been applied in a historically imprecise manner