Globalization Changes Our Life

Globalization Changes Our Life

Introduction

The term 'globalization' is very common today, it has been used for about 20 years and became common practice in discourses about culture, world policies amongst other matters. It is one of these words without any real settle agreement about what the term means. A term that is used to give a name for a set of processes that have come to characterize the contemporaneous world - for instance in the various 'flows' of capital, commodities, people, knowledge, information, ideas, crime, pollution, diseases, fashions, beliefs, images and so on - across international boundaries. Globalization is a broad concept and the angle taken to define it can lead us to interpret the idea in many different ways.

Body

The process of globalization has certainly had many changing effects to the world we live in; it has also changed the way many factors operate. Globalization is said to have transformed the structure and scale of human relationships that social, cultural, political, and economic processes now operate at a global scale with a consequent reduction in the significance of other geographical scales (Precher, Costello and Smith, 2000).

Globalization and Everyday Life

Geographic boarders of nation states become less relevant as beliefs, traditions, and customs permeate and are accepted, practiced, and implemented across various societies and cultural arenas. Globalism deals with issues on a geopolitical scope and scale, in which the influence of one culture effects, directly or indirectly, affects the dynamic of other cultures or societies. The evolution of communication and travel has brought down the logistical barriers, once imposed by these forms of communication (Featherstone, 1995). Globalizations effects give our collective existence a new perspective and sheds light on both the positive and negative implications of individual and collective actions. Sociologists and governments can no longer ignore smaller or what they deemed to be insignificant components in the framework of globalization. A prime example, as illustrated in the text, is the international trade and commerce. If we Americans analyzed everything we own or buy, we would probably realize that >50 percent of these material goods are produced in other areas of the world (Stiglitz, 2002).

Globalization and Mass Media

Everyone's life is influenced by everyone else. Globalization of mass media has had a dramatic influence on in many cultures. One need not visit or live in a certain part of the world to emulate or adopt styles, behaviors, or ...