Summary of Manfred B. Steger's Globalization

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The term globalization has been used in both the popular and academic press to describe a process, a condition, a system, a force, and an age. However, these concepts have very different meanings, and their indiscriminate usage leads to confusion.
#2 There are three concepts that need to be distinguished when discussing globality: global imagination, global imaginary, and globalization. Global imagination is the growing consciousness of the world as a single whole. Global imaginary refers to people’s growing consciousness of the world as a single whole. Globalization is the process of transforming our present social condition of conventional nationality into one of globality.
#3 Globalization is the process of growing global connectivity fueled by digital technologies. However, it would be foolish to deny that these technological innovations have played a crucial role in the current compression of world-time and world-space.
#4 In 2014, American journalist Matt Stopera lost his cell phone, which contained thousands of private photos of an Asian man standing in front of an orange tree. He received many tweets from Chinese people offering to help find the man, and he became an overnight Internet celebrity in China.

Sujets

• International Relations
• Political Science
• General officer
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822504226
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Manfred B. Steger's Globalization
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The term globalization has been used in both the popular and academic press to describe a process, a condition, a system, a force, and an age. However, these concepts have very different meanings, and their indiscriminate usage leads to confusion.

#2

There are three concepts that need to be distinguished when discussing globality: global imagination, global imaginary, and globalization. Global imagination is the growing consciousness of the world as a single whole. Global imaginary refers to people’s growing consciousness of the world as a single whole. Globalization is the process of transforming our present social condition of conventional nationality into one of globality.

#3

Globalization is the process of growing global connectivity fueled by digital technologies. However, it would be foolish to deny that these technological innovations have played a crucial role in the current compression of world-time and world-space.

#4

In 2014, American journalist Matt Stopera lost his cell phone, which contained thousands of private photos of an Asian man standing in front of an orange tree. He received many tweets from Chinese people offering to help find the man, and he became an overnight Internet celebrity in China.

#5

In March 2015, the two men met in China. The meeting was heavily documented on social media and included a symbolic signing ceremony of a Chinese-American friendship treaty between the two correspondents who were quickly becoming friends.

#6

The story of how a stolen iPhone made an ordinary American a Chinese Internet celebrity was shared internationally more than 100 million times. The project is still alive and slated to begin shooting in 2020.

#7

The story of Matt Stopera’s stolen iPhone demonstrates how the local and global should not be seen as opposites. The local and global are interconnected nodes of expanding social interconnections.

#8

There are several forms of globalization, and they all have their own characteristics. The first is embodied globalization, which involves the movement of people across the planet. Concrete examples of this include African political refugees crossing the Mediterranean into Europe and Central American migrants trying to trek across the Rio Grande valley into the United States.

#9

Travel has never been more popular. The digital revolution has taken a qualitative leap with the extension of social relations through the movement of immaterial things and processes, including words, images, and electronic texts.