Chapter 1-Globalization got my attention. The way our world works as an interconnected global marketplace has improved the way we interact, trade, and do business with other countries via telecommunication systems and transportation. While there are many positive ways that globalization has improved the world, there are also some extremely negative aspects as well. The book mentions the global recession that began in 2007 as a relevant example to any American. This recession is so significant because it originated from the United States collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market and led to the reversal of the housing boom in other industrialized economies. With this greater interconnection, something negative like a market crash in a big contributor, like the United States, can cause a ripple effect that echos throughout the globe.
Chapter 2-The Machine Metaphor got my attention. This metaphor is an understanding of organizations that highlights the ways in which organizations are specialized standardized, and predictable. This metaphor is relevant to me and anyone else that wishes to get involved in some sort of management field. I believe that without treating many aspects of running a business in a way that addresses the productivity that comes from the metaphors view, more than likely the business you are running or working for isn 't performing optimally. In most entry level jobs, there is a certain standardized way of training employees and carrying out day to day
Since the 20th century, people have become globalization in their social life. The actions of people and the view of the city are almost the same with other countries. Globalization is not the fashionable word in the world, it is an important word of human economics. There have some economic professions said it could be dangerous of the transaction in different countries, such as global economic crisis. However, globalization has some positive points that it makes people’s lives become better. Even though it has some negative effects on the human such as air pollution, but it also has many positive effects. Nowadays, not only the government, but also people are enjoying globalization in economics, immigration, and knowledge.
In this quote the writer is simply saying that Indigenous people benefited from historical globalization, but did they really? Now the first questions to answer are who are the Indigenous people, what is historical globalization, and why is this topic important? To answer the questions, Indigenous people are those groups, especially protected by international or national legislation as having a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory, and their cultural or historical distinctiveness from other populations. Historical globalization is a period that is often identified as beginning in 1492, when Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the Caribbean, and ending after World War II, when the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers. Now the reason why this topic is so important is because it deals with our history and what happened to indigenous people in the past. We learn about this so that we can realize what happened in the past and maybe even try to correct our mistakes so that no one has to go through what the Indigenous people went through. Therefore, the quote is incorrect. This quote is incorrect because the Indigenous people went through so many hardships, they had to deal with residential schools, the Indian act, and the Rwandan genocide.
Globalization contributes to sustainable prosperity for all people by its constant greenhouse gas emissions. The people of the world cannot live without effecting the environment in some way or another. Shipbreaking has become a big problem for the environment and sustainable prosperity. The Kyoto Protocol was created for the purpose of trying to lower the greenhouse gas emissions of the major countries of the world.
The readings for the second week dealt primarily with the recession of 2008 and its implications on the global scale. The Guillen and Ontiveros chapters crafted the framework for the entirety of the topic. Chapter 2 deals with the growing instability across economies, Chapter 3 talks about the increased outreach of multinational corporations, and chapter 6 highlights the growing inequality and poverty across the world. Together, these chapters emphasize the growing complexity and entanglement of the various nations; a primary problem in the recession. With the groundwork set, the articles tackled the principle reasons for the recession (through various interdisciplinary approaches) as well as the subsequent outcomes for the global community.
Never before has the global economy experienced the amount of interconnectedness that is currently being experienced today. The sheer amount of goods and capital moved on a daily basis would overwhelm merchants and investors of previous eras. Globalization more than likely is the cause for the current economic dynamics in which markets and goods become more accessible to investors and consumers. This has very likely lead to increased economic growth than would’ve not been achieved had nations around the world kept their markets,goods,and labor insulated from one another. Although, when nations are interconnected economically as they are today downturns of individual nations have global consequences. Understanding the effects economic globalization is important in better understanding the Great recession, how it occurred, and how its effects spread around the world.
Globalization can be defined as ‘international integration’, which can be described as the process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and functioning together. This process is a combination of economic, technological, and political forces (dictionary.com).
Globalization is the worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration. Globalization has impacted many different companies like Nike,Reebok,McDonalds, and Walmart. In order to have a successful globalization and spreading that brand across the world is something that Disneyland has mastered over the years. Opening in 1955 Disneyland was founded in California the company and brand took off over the years and has been globalizing across the world in many of different Countries. While many argue Globalizing a company brands is a bad route to take because it is taking away from the American made style and the company using other people to work for cheap at these other countries across seas. I believe that Disneyland is a good thing for the economy and boosting other countries economy, opening job opportunities’ for people in those countries, and bringing many cultures and people together.
In the past few decades globalization has been rapidly intensifying, as nation states are being more and more interdependent towards one another culturally, politically and socially, the world has almost become a single network of complex relations between states. Although the definition of Globalization has varied and changed over the years and amongst theorist and scholars, globalization is nothing new, it has occurred since the dawn of time, rather its rate has intensified rapidly due to the advancement of technology. While Martin wolf interprets globalization as a “…journey, but toward an unreachable destination, the globalized world. A globalized economy in which neither distance nor national borders impede economic transactions. A world where the costs of transport and communication were zero and the barriers created by differing national jurisdictions had vanished” (Wolf, 2001: 178). An illustration of Wolfs summary for globalization could be interpreted through the European Union, in which assoicated states agree on the collective notion of democratic values and standards, its single currency Euro and its barrier free immigration policies make up the very essence of what Wolf is implying Globalization as. On the other hand, State Sovereignty is valued through the three fundamental ideas, ‘’absolute supremacy over internal affairs within its territory, absolute right to govern its people, and freedom from any external interference in the above matters” (Wang, 2004:
With the widening and deepening impact of transcontinental flows and patterns of social interaction, globalisation has allowed for intensified means of communication and connectedness around the world (Held and McGrew 2002). Robert McChesney and Arjun Appadurai propose valuable and different frameworks for the ways we can interpret the debates surrounding the emergence of globalisation. While McChesney introduces a political economy approach on the importance of neo-liberalism, Appadurai proposes a valuable critique on the distinctions between complex global cultural flows. Drawing on the work of Appadurai in particular, this essay will explore the relevance of numerous global media flows that can account for globalisation and the interregional interactions we are seeing today (Appadurai 2000). By constructing an argument based on Appadurai’s framework of ‘scapes’ and theories on tensions surrounding cultural homogenization, this essay will argue that globalisation of media is not adequately explained by theories of the economy and neo-liberalism alone. A much more refined analysis is required to evaluate the historical processes of structural and cultural change around the globe.
1. Comparing organization to machine metaphor. People use metaphors to learn words in a different way. Metaphors, similes, and analogies make comparisons in slightly different ways. A metaphor states that something is something else without using the word "like" or "as." According to my research, in my opinion, I seem to find the machine metaphor fits best to this organization. We can design and operate machines to do exactly what we want. Each part has a precise function which it carries out repetitively and without variation resulting in reliable overall performance. According to Miller's organizational communication approaches and processes, the machine metaphor looks at despaired objects that organizations are alike. In order the machine to work properly, four aspects are critical; specialization, standardization, replaceability and predictability. The notion is that we as students can learn something about how organizations operate by considering a disparate object that an organization
C. Sports events such as the World Cup and Olympics can also be used for cultural
Sociology has looked at the way people interact with one another in groups, cultures, societies and organizations. An emerging topic in sociology that takes in a bigger and more worldly view is globalization. Globalization is defined as taking into account the way the world becomes more connected with itself through cultural, transportation and communication means. These international connections came before the time of capitalism and colonization itself. Long since then, countries have traded with one another in spices and riches to influence food and even culture. Back in the 19th century, it took people a very long time to get from one place to the other but now with advances and technologies, it is possible through both real time or
Globalization benefits society as a whole because it expands markets, increases profits, creates new jobs and has also lifted people in poor countries out of poverty.
The question for this essay is: When it comes to globalization in the twenty-first century, what is the most important lesson to be learned from the recent global financial crisis, including both the “euro crisis” in Europe and the “Great Recession” in the United States? This essay will argue that the most important lesson learned from the recent financial crisis, euro crisis and Great Depression in regards to globalization is that while globalization has been primarily seen as a positive change to countries’ economies, it also provides a looming trap as the chain on one country’s economy can greatly affect the now global market. The main arguments of the essay will look deeper into the specific results and repercussions
Globalization is the process of increased interconnectedness among the countries most in the most known popular areas of economics, politics, social, and culture. All of these areas are key aspects of each country and what makes them individualized. Globalization allows for countries to be able to be individuals without the conflict of their differences because of the power used to work as a whole globe. Globalization is a positive thing for the entire world, it allows for lots of development in our world by the connection there is between all of the countries interdependence on each other. The different points of globalization claim that it will lead to convergence of income, access to knowledge and technology, consumption power, living standards, and political ideas.