Comprehensive summary of the complete book 'The Sociology of Globalization' 2nd edition/2nd edition 2017 by Luke Martell. ISBN 9780745689777.
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Notes The Sociology of Globalization
Themes of the book
- Economic bases of globalization
- Globalization as historical/modern
- Sceptical perspectives on globalization (what is globalization? Difference with
internationalization?)
- Power inequality and conflict
Pluralist views of globalization;
Globalization is:
- Multicausal
o Globalization not just caused by one chief factor, e.g., economy
- Multilevel
o Economic, political, cultural, military, environmental
- Hybrid
o Mixture of inputs from East/West/North/South
- Localized
o Form globalization takes varies where it is received
Scholte rejects globalization as
- Internationalization
o Interconnection with interdependency
- Liberalization
o Borderless world (also trade)
- Universalization
o Global dispersion of objects/experiences
- Westernization
o Western Universalization
But it must be deterritorialization or supraterritorialization relations (end of nation-state) that
are above borders, not just more intense, but new and changing
Both global and territorial relations-> all levels intersect
Roberts and Giddens
- Globalization as compression of the world and intensification of the consciousness
- Intensification of social relations with effect locally
Holton
,Held
- Transregional interconnectedness and a widening of networks
- Regularization of world relations, intensification
- Development in transport and communications speed up the global interactions
- Impact of distant events being magnified, local developments with global consequences
Osterhammel and petersson
Definition of Globalization involves compression of space in terms of knowledge,
communication, movement
- Global in distance
o Global extensions of economy, politics and culture
- Globally inclusive in inputs
o It is not westernization
- Interdependency rather than just interconnection
- Stability and regularity in relations is needed
- It needs to involve more than elites, must include the masses
- Needs to be global consciousness
Having a definition helps to show considerations of power, inequality and conflict
Globalization as an ongoing development,
H1 Perspectives on Globalization: Divergence or Convergence?
Three waves of discussion
- Globalist
- Sceptical
- Transformationalist
Globalization theory started from 1980’s with focus on economy, politics culture and
diminishing territorial significance-> hyperglobalistic view
Globalist (hyperglobalist)
- Economic changes with political/cultural effects
- Transnational global forces take over from nations on economic, sovereign and identity
level
Sceptics (evidence and differentiation in effects)
- Globalists see global processes, but these aren’t really global
- Nation states remain very powerful
- There is still national identity
, - Sceptics want globalist’s claims to be tested
- Are these processes globally inclusive?
- Global economy is not globalized but merely more internationalized
- Is free trade solving poverty?
- Is the effect of political globalization equal?
- Is the effect of cultural globalization similar across countries?
Transformationalists (third wave-> critical, but acknowledge globalization)
- See interdependency
- Common issues create global politics, but nation states still matter and are actors
- Differentiation in effects of globalization does not mean globalization is absent
- Structures both continue and transform
- Acknowledged uncertainty-> don’t know where globalization will lead
Globalists Sceptics Transformationalists
Globalization Globalization as Globalization as a Global
causal discourse; transformations, but
internationalization differentiation and
as effect of other embeddedness
causes
Method Abstract, general Empirical approach Qualitative rather
approach than quantitative
approach
Economy Global economy; International Globally
integration, open; economy; triadic, transformed; new
free trade regional, unequal; stratification;
state intervention globalized but
and protectionism differentiated
Politics Global governance or Nation-states, Politics globally
neoliberalism; regional blocs, transformed; nation-
decline of nation- international; power states important but
state; loss of national and inequality; reconstructed;
sovereignty political agency sovereignty shared
possible
Culture Homogenization Clashes of culture; Globally
nationalism; transformed;
Americanization; hybridization;
globalization complex,
differentiated differentiated
globalization
History Globalization as new Internationalization Globalization old but
as old present form
unprecedented
, Normative politics Global governance or Reformist social Cosmopolitan
neoliberalism; end of democracy and democracy
social democratic international
welfare state regulation possible
Future Globalization Nation-state, triad, Uncertain, agency;
conflict, inequality left or right;
continued, stalled or
reversed
Scepticist arguments (Hirst and Thompson)
- Internationalization of the economy is not new (between 1870-1914 it was at its height)
- It is intensifying, but within the already existing structures-> it is not a new development
- Transnational corporations (TNCs) are rare-> most are nationally based and
internationally oriented (MNCs)
- Foreign direct investment (FDI) is concentrated amongst advanced industrial
economies-> developing countries remain marginal in trade
- The world economy is not global but more triadic (Europe, East Asia, North America)
- The most powerful states have capacity to exert economic governance, but choose not
to for ideological reasons/economic interests
- Neoliberalism is assumed inevitable for ideological reasons
Transformationalist arguments (Held et al.)
- Contemporary globalization is part of long-term process but is now in unprecedented
form-> more and further trade, exchanges, ideas
- Globalization is a driving force behind changes reshaping the world-> there is no clear
distinction between the domestic and international in economic, social and political
processes
- Economies are becoming deterritorialized, global and transnational (MNCs,
interdependency of national economies)
- Nation-states have reconstituted/diffused power-> have to share the power with others,
social movements, and with international organizations
- Territorial boundaries are important, but they are not of primary importance anymore->
economic, social and political activities are locally rooted but become disembedded
from territory or reterritorialized in new forms of localization and nationalization
- Globalization is contingent and uncertain-> sceptics and globalists see one future,
transformationalists see that if the world is becoming more or less global is not
predetermined
- Sceptics seem to see the world as a singular process, but it is differentiated in types of
globalization, extent of globalization, and location of globalization
- Transformationalists see qualitative evidence as important, not only empirical like the
sceptics
- There is a global system that most countries are part of, but not global convergence or a
single world society
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