Takes the radicalist perspective. Giddens believes that the use of the term globalisation is a relatively new phenomenon and that it appears everywhere; in politics, economics etc. All languages have a variation of the term globalisation and it is becoming more and more integrated into everyday life.
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ssentially a myth, governments can still intervene in economic life and the w
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13 Oct 10
Naomi BielakA BBC News article from 1999. An account of Anthony Giddens' lectures on globalisation. Takes the perspective of a radical. Argues that globalisation is a relatively new phenomenon. It has become a major part of everyday life specifically in the last 2 decades.
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11 Oct 10
Amy RichesThis is from week one of the lectures from the Runaway World series by Anthony Giddens. This would be used to argue that globalisation has not made the world fairer as it gives a pessimistic view of globalisation being an affair of the industrialised North and provides figures of the world population's global income. There is also a critical view of trans-national companies and the fact that some have allowed the sale of poor quality medical drugs to the developing countries that are in fact banned in the industrial countries, which I would use for evidence that globalisation is unfair.
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08 Oct 10
James HaywardAnthony Giddens lecture on globalisation, covers a wide range of historical, culture, technological and economical points and give a very good overview on globalization with positive and negative arguments is a very good starting point for my essay.
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he global marketplace, they say, is much more developed than even two or three decades ago, and is indifferent to national borders. Nations have lost most of the sovereignty they once had, and politicians have lost most of their capability to influence events
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Traditional family systems are becoming transformed, or are under strain, in many parts of the world, particularly as women stake claim to greater equality. There has never before been a society, so far as we know from the historical record, in which women have been even approximately equal to men. This is a truly global revolution in everyday life, whose consequences are being felt around the world in spheres from work to politics.
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Most people think of it as simply 'pulling away' power or influence from local communities and nations into the global arena.
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Globalisation not only pulls upwards, it pushes downwards, creating new pressures for local autonomy.
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The American sociologist Daniel Bell expresses this very well when he says that the nation becomes too small to solve the big problems, but also too large to solve the small ones.
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he Soviet Union and the East European countries were comparable to the West in terms of growth rates until somewhere around the early 1970s. After that point, they fell rapidly behind.
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To many living outside Europe and North America, it looks uncomfortably like Westernisation - or, perhaps, Americanisation, since the US is now the sole superpower, with a dominant economic, cultural and military position in the global order.
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It would see it as destroying local cultures, widening world inequalities and worsening the lot of the impoverished. Globalisation, some argue, creates a world of winners and losers, a few on the fast track to prosperity, the majority condemned to a life of misery and despair.
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But globalisation is becoming increasingly de-centred - not under the control of any group of nations, and still less of the large corporations. Its effects are felt just as much in the western countries as elsewhere.
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Are nation-states, and hence national political leaders, still powerful, or are they becoming largely irrelevant to the forces shaping the world?
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