Globalisation

Question 1

What is globalisation?

Answer 1

• A process in which the world is said to be ever more interconnected.
• We can increasingly talk of a global society/culture rather than ones associated with specific regions.

Question 2

How has the world became more interconnected?

Answer 2

The development of transportation and communication.

Question 3

What are the positives of globalisation?

Answer 3

• Previously uncontacted groups became part of a wider global society and national boundaries became less significant.
• Businesses began to operate nationally and the economy is now global

Question 4

What are the negatives of globalisation?

Answer 4

It is not an even process. Some are excluded and can suffer great inequality as a result.

Question 5

What two sociologists discuss globalisation?

Answer 5

Giddens (human history)
Wiseman (misused/understood)

Question 6

What does Giddens say about globalisation?

Answer 6

• If human history was equivalent to a 24hr day, agriculture would have happened in the last 4 mins, people in the last 3, and modern society in the last 1 minute.
• More changes has taken place in the remaining 30 seconds than in the entire time that was before this.

Question 7

Who discusses human history?

Answer 7

Giddens

Question 8

Who said the term ‘globalisation’ can be misused and misunderstood?

Answer 8

Wiseman

Question 9

What’s an example of the negative impact of globalisation?

Answer 9

• Tribes in the Amazon rainforest are at risk of extinction from disease and land loss, as this part of the rainforest is rich in resources.
• Thought to be at least 77 isolated groups.
• Globalisation has led to increasing demand for land, often due to the spread of transnational corporations (TNCs)
  e.g., high demands for timber has led to destruction of some habitats.

Question 10

What’s an example of a campaign led by an internet led organisation which provides legal, and practical support for these tribes?

Answer 10

Survival International

Question 11

How does Survival International support tribes?

Answer 11

Helping groups with the right to land without any formal legal evidence.

Question 12

What are the assumptions along side defining globalisation?

Answer 12

• It is always positive.
• It happens everywhere at an even pace.
• It results in cultural homogenisation.
• It is only economic, political, or cultural.
• Results in social change towards individualism and choice.