INTRODUCTION

The Contemporary World

WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY WORLD?
• According to dictionary it is the circumstances and ideas of the present
age.
• considering the past and future
• Synonyms: modern times , modern world , present times
WHY DO YOU NEED TO STUDY THE
WORLD?
Students are more connected to the world than ever before,
through social media, online gaming, and popular culture
that is more international than ever.
Unfortunately, there is a difference between being
connected to the world through popular culture and the
Internet, and having an actual understanding of the world
outside of one’s home country.
The structures
of globalization
UNIT 1
LESSON 1: WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?
• is the connection of different parts of the world resulting in the
expansion of international cultural, economic, and political activities. It is
the movement and integration of goods and people among different
countries.
• It is a term which may be used broadly to mean doing things as distant
people do them, or more narrowly to mean complying to global
standards in economy, politics, culture, education, environment or other
matters. It describes the way countries and people of the world interact
and integrate. Many things have become globalized as people come
into contact.
WHO AMONG HERE HAS AN OUT OF
THE COUNTRY EXPERIENCE?
Quick sharing
GIO, LATIF AND THE LAKSA
GIO, LATIF AND THE LAKSA
 GLOBAL EXPERIENCES
• It was through such friendships that one appreciate the meaning
and impact of globalization.
• The story shows how globalization operates at multiple,
intersecting levels.
• The spread of Filipino TV into Malaysia suggests how fast this
popular culture has proliferated and criss-crossed all over Asia.
• The Model UN activity that Gio and Latif participated in is an
international competition about international politics.
 GLOBAL EXPERIENCES
• Gio met Latif (a Malaysian involved in the Model UN) in Sydney, a global city
that derives its wealth and influence from the global capital that flows
through it.
• Sydney is also a metropolis of families of international immigrants or
foreigners working in the industries that also sell their products abroad.
• After the two had gone back to their home countries, Gio and Latif kept in
touch through Facebook, a global social net working site that provides
instantaneous communication across countries and continents.
• They preserved their friendship online and then rekindled this face-to-face in
Singapore, another hub for global commerce, with 40% of the population
being classified as “foreign talents”.
 IN GLOBAL EXPERIENCES, SOMETHING IS
HAPPENING AND IT IS NOT AFFECTING EVERYONE
IN THE SAME WAY.
Governments that decide to welcome the foreign
investments on belief that they provide jobs and capital
for the country offer public lands as factory or
industrial sites.

 Urban poor communities are

being evicted by the government.
 They irony is that these people
forcibly removed from their
“slums” are also the labor force
sought by foreign companies.
 They had to be kicked out of their
homes, promised to be relocated
and given a job from a foreign
company for a minimum-wage
work.
BECAUSE DIFFERENT PEOPLE ENCOUNTER
GLOBALIZATION IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, IT
IS DEEMED USEFUL TO ASK QUESTIONS
LIKE…
2 PREMISES:
• First, globalization is a complex
phenomenon that occurs at multiple
levels.
• Second, it is an uneven process that
affects people differently.
GLOBALIZATION: A WORKING DEFINITION
• Most accounts view globalization as primarily an economic process.
 THE BEST SCHOLARLY DESCRIPTION OF
GLOBALIZATION
“The expansion and
intensification of social relations
and consciousness across world-
time and across world-space”
-Manfred Steger
 THE BEST SCHOLARLY DESCRIPTION OF
GLOBALIZATION
“The expansion and Expansion refers to “both the
intensification of social relations creation of new social networks
and consciousness across world- and the multiplication of existing
time and across world-space” connections that cut across
traditional politics, economic,
-Manfred Steger cultural, and geographic
boundaries. These various
connections occur at different
levels.
e.g. Social Media and
International group of NGOs
 THE BEST SCHOLARLY DESCRIPTION OF
GLOBALIZATION
“The expansion and
intensification of social relations
and consciousness across world- Intensification refers to the
time and across world-space” expansion, stretching, and
acceleration of these networks.
-Manfred Steger Not only are global connections
multiplying, but they are also
becoming more closely-knit and
expanding their reach.
e.g. strong financial market
connecting London and New York.
 THE BEST SCHOLARLY DESCRIPTION OF
GLOBALIZATION
“The expansion and The final attribute of this definition relates
intensification of social relations to the way people perceive time and
space.
and consciousness across world-
time and across world-space” Steger notes that “globalization processes
do not occur merely at an objective,
-Manfred Steger material level BUT they also involve the
subjective plane of human consciousness”.
In other words, people begin to feel that
the world has become a smaller place and
distance has collapsed from thousands of
miles to just a mouse-click away.
e.g. e-mail; Cable TV and internet connection
CONCLUSION: GLOBALIZATION FROM THE
GROUND UP
• For anthropologist Arjun
Appadurai, different kinds of
Ethnoscapes
globalization occurs on multiple
and intersecting dimensions of
integration that he calls Ideoscapes Mediascapes
“scapes”.

Finanscape
Technoscapes
s
CONCLUSION: GLOBALIZATION FROM THE
GROUND UP Ethnoscapes refers to the global movement of
people (e.g. tourists, immigrants, refugees etc.)
• For anthropologist Arjun
Ideoscapes is the realm where political ideas
Appadurai, different kinds of
move around. (‘freedom’, ‘welfare,’ ‘rights’,
globalization occurs on multiple ‘sovereignty’, ‘representation’, and the master
and intersecting dimensions of term ‘democracy)
integration that he calls Mediascapes is about the flow of culture
“scapes”. (newspapers, magazines, television stations,
film productions studios, etc.)
Finanscapes denotes the global circulation of
money. (currency markets, national stock
exchanges)
Technoscapes refers to the circulation of
mechanical goods and software. (global
configuration of technology)
CONCLUSION: GLOBALIZATION FROM THE
GROUND UP
Appadurai’s argument is
• For anthropologist Arjun
Appadurai, different kinds of simple: there are multiple
globalization occurs on multiple globalization.
and intersecting dimensions of
integration that he calls
“scapes”.
He viewed globalization
through various lenses.
 WHILE IT IS IMPORTANT TO ASK WHAT IS
GLOBALIZATION? IT IS LIKEWISE IMPORTANT TO
ASK “WHAT IS/ARE BEING GLOBALIZED?

Depending of what is being globalized, the vista

and conclusions change.
ADVANTAGES OF GLOBALIZATION
• Greater understanding and knowledge of many countries culture
• Investment into developing country’s economies.
• Greater range and access to different products.
• Increase production of companies due to greater demands.
• Larger market range.
• Job Creation.
• Greater innovation and development in products and technology.
• Cheaper products
DISADVANTAGES OF GLOBALIZATION
• Outsourcing of services to other countries.
• Possible increase of unemployment-machines and
technology.
• Closure of small business.
• Degration of environment- scarcity of resources
• Conflict between and among countries
REFERENCES
• The Contemporary World by: Lisandro E. Claudio and
Patricio N. Abinales
• https://idoc.pub/documents/the-contemporary-
worldpdf-klzoz67kjv4g
1. How have you experienced globalization?
2. Why is it crucial to emphasized that
globalization is uneven?
3. What is the difference between
globalization and globalism?