新版泛读教程4 unit3 globalization

19th century Great Britain was an early global superpower.
Organizations
GATT:General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
01Cultural Globalization
02 CONTENTS Political Globalization 03Economic Globalization
"Diversity is going to be a fundamental part of our lives.That 's what it's going to mean to modern."
What has the globalization brought us?
FOOD
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Education
Films
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However, it has also brought us these:
Majority of benefits → developed countries
Factories moving out → local losing jobs源自ThyoaunkEnd
✓ Durkheim emphasizes far less the rising of the bourgeoisie as a new revolutionary class and very seldom refers to capitalism as the new mode of production implemented by it.
Native New World crops exchanged globally: Maize, tomato, potato, vanilla, rubber, cacao, tobacco
Modern Globalization
Time: 19th century~
Industrial Revolution.:Globalization approached
Eastern Origins: Without the traditional ideas
from the East, Western globalization would not have emerged the way it did.
Silk Road: opening long-distance, political and economic
✓ In the work of Max Weber, modernity is closely associated with the processes of rationalization and disenchantment of the world.
"Alternative Modernities"
its modern form as a direct result of the industrial revolution.
Organizations:After the Second World War,the
founding of several international institutions intended to facilitate economic growth multiple rounds of trade opening simplified and lowered trade barriers,such as GATT,WTO.
"The process by which local cultures are transformed or absorbed by a dominant outside culture."
"The central problem of today's global interaction [is] the tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization."
HISTORY
Archaic Globalization
Early Modern Globalization
Modern Globalization
Archaic Globalization
Time:Conventionally referring to globalizing
events and developments from the time of the earliest civilizations until roughly the 1600s.
Cultural Globalization
Hybridization? Homogenization? Conflict intensification?
Some Comments
"Cultural globalization is involving human integration and hybridization, arguing that it is possible to detect cultural mixing across continents and regions going back many centuries"
Globalization
By： 汪苗苗 吴晓璐
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Definition
Globalization is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the telegraph and its posterity the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.
"The differences in culture sharpened by this very process of cultural globalization will be a source of conflict."
About Modernity
Modernity
✓ For Marx, what was the basis of modernity was the emergence of capitalism and the revolutionary bourgeoisie.
globalization roughly spanning the years between 1600 and 1800.
Trade arrangements :The shift of hegemony to
Western Europe, the rise of larger-scale conflicts between powerful nations.Early modern trade and communications involved a vast group including European, Muslim, Indian, Southeast Asian and Chinese merchants, particularly in the Indian Ocean region.
interactions between the civilizations,carrying out cultural trade among the civilizations along its network.
Silk Road
Early Modern Globalization
Time:Covering a period of the history of
Shmuel Eisenstadt introduced the concept of
"multiple modernities" . Modernity as a "plural condition" is the central concept of this sociologic approach and perspective, which broadens the definition of "modernity" from exclusively denoting Western European culture to a culturally relativistic definition, thereby: "Modernity is not Westernization, and its key processes and dynamics can be found in all societies"