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- 1. Fill in the BlankGlobalization is a vague, opaque, and difficult word (global economy, international trade, growing prosperity; it can also mean, an increase in ‘global’ problems such as ______________ and _____________).
- 2. Fill in the BlankGlobalization in the _____________ definition, the word gets softened to globalization, but it is still chilly and distant.
- 3. Fill in the BlankGlobalization in French,
- 4. Fill in the BlankGlobalization in Chinese,
- 5. Fill in the BlankGlobalization in Kiswahili
- 6. Fill in the Blank______ ______________, a former professor at the Harvard Business School, is widely credited with popularizing the term which he used in a 1983 Harvard Business Review article, ‘The Globalization of Markets’.
- 7. Fill in the Blanksays, ‘There is an obvious first lesson to draw from this language trap: it is necessary to separate out the two meanings of the - izations in any critical analysis’
- 8. Fill in the BlankGlobalization and media act in concert towards’ its growing _______________
- 9. Fill in the BlankThree periods of Music (Globalization):
- 10. Fill in the Blank________ one thing that we humans share (language). We communicate basically via verbal and non-verbal cues, that is still universal to us and is part of our language
- 11. Fill in the Blank_________ language was essential but imperfect. Distance causes trouble for oral communication.
- 12. Fill in the BlankLanguage relies on ______________, which is limited in capacity and not always perfect.
- 13. Fill in the Blank________ the very first writing that allowed humans to communicate and share knowledge and ideas over much larger spaces and across much longer times.
- 14. Fill in the BlankWhere did writing happened first
- 15. Fill in the BlankChina, printing via _________
- 16. Fill in the BlankJohannes Gutenberg in Germany, introduced the ___________ type printing, that made reading materials cheap and easily circulated.
- 17. Fill in the Blank___________ in the nineteenth century, a host of new media would transform the ongoing processes of globalization.
- 18. Fill in the BlankScholars have come to call these __________ because they require electromagnetic energy – electricity – to use.
- 19. Fill in the BlankWhat are the types of electronic media that we have before
- 20. Fill in the Blank__________ are most often electronic media that rely on digital codes – the long arcane combinations of 0s and 1s that represent information
- 21. Fill in the BlankMedia have been essential to the growth of _________ in our world.
- 22. Fill in the BlankMedia have made economic globalization possible by creating the conditions for _____________ and by promoting the conceptual foundation of the world's market economy.
- 23. Fill in the Blank__________ a rising global imaginary – the globe itself as the imagined community.
- 24. Fill in the BlankPolitical scientist _________ primary focus was the origin of nations and nationalism.
- 25. Fill in the Blank______, the imagination is not a trifling fantasy but a ‘social fact’ and a ‘staging ground for action’.
- 26. Fill in the BlankGlobal imaginary ___________, media has connected the world in ways that create a ‘global village’.
- 27. Fill in the BlankEconomic globalization, is not just dollars and cents, but ____________ – narratives that make natural the buying and selling of products across borders and boundaries and mythic celebrations of products and consumption.
- 28. Fill in the BlankEconomic and cultural globalization arguably would be impossible without a global commercial media system to promote global markets and to encourage consumer values’.
- 29. Fill in the Blankcall global media ‘the new missionaries of global capitalism’. Oligopoly.
- 30. Fill in the BlankTransnational conglomerates, people are encouraged to think of products, not politics. They are consumers, not ________
- 31. Fill in the BlankAn essential process of globalization is _______
- 32. Fill in the BlankGlobalization has transformed world politics in profound ways. It led to the formation and then the overthrow of kingdoms and empires. It led to the creation of the __________
- 33. Fill in the Blank___________ suggests that cultures are different, strong, and resilient
- 34. Fill in the Blank_______ are the primary carriers of culture (newspapers, magazines, movies, advertisements, television, radio, the Internet, and other forms, the media production and display cultural products, from pop songs to top films).
- 35. Fill in the Blank____ suggests that globalization will bring about a growing sameness of cultures.
- 36. Fill in the Blank________ suggests that globalization will bring about an increasing blending or mixture of cultures.
- 37. Fill in the Blank_____________ the media and globalization are facts of life in local cultures
- 38. Fill in the Blank___________ is a multifaceted movement that has caused the onset of secularization in Western societies.
- 39. Fill in the Blank____ argues, theorizing religion and globalization has been subject to two different lines of interpretation: globalization of religion versus globalization and religion.
- 40. Fill in the Blank___ proposes that the very notion of what constitutes a ‘religion’, as commonly understood, is the product of a long-term process of inter civilizational or cross-cultural interactions.
- 41. Fill in the Blank____________ is a means of describing solutions to new-found situations that people face as a result of migration, it comes as two quite distinct blends of religious universalism and local particularism.
- 42. Fill in the BlankTransnational religion, used to describe cases of institutional _____________, whereby communities living outside the national territory of particular states maintain religious attachments to their home churches or institutions.
- 43. Fill in the Blank______________ involves the consideration of an entire range of responses as outcomes instead of a singlemaster narrative of secularization and modernization (Beyer, 2007).
- 44. Fill in the BlankFour concrete forms of globalization:
- 45. Fill in the BlankContemporary conflicts with which religion has been associated are not solely about religion, however, if one means by ‘_____’ a set of doctrines and beliefs.
- 46. Fill in the Blankit usually invokes pleasant images of travel, exploration and ‘worldly’ pursuits enjoyed by those who have benefited from globalization…
- 47. Fill in the BlankAccording to _______________ global cities are the ‘command centres’, the main nodes of triumphant global capitalism (even more triumphant and global after the fall of its only real-life competitor- communism- at that time).
- 48. Fill in the BlankSassen argued that “the more globalized the economy becomes, the higher the agglomeration of central functions in a relatively few sites”- that is the __________.
- 49. Fill in the Blank____ are decidedly post-industrial while large manufacturing agglomerations are now place outside- that is normally the slum-ridden “megacities” of the Third World.
- 50. Fill in the BlankZukin describes the process of switching to a “______ economy” as a “cultural turn” in the advanced societies where a “______ economy”, based on abstract products such as financial instruments, information and “culture” (art, fashion, music, etc.)
- 51. Fill in the Blank___ the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in.
- 52. Fill in the BlankGlobal cities are also concentrations of geopolitical power, and cultural and trendsetting powerhouses, higher education hubs and playgrounds of creative industries, such as arts, fashion, and design
- 53. Fill in the BlankOver the past three decades, the globalization of the labour markets has created a new type of professional nomadism... A highly “______” environment- a crucible of demographic and social change: a hub of “creative destruction” that according to Moretti (2012:148) characterizes successful market economies.
- 54. Fill in the BlankGlobalization has only created the global labour market, causing an increase in transnational mobility and migration but has simultaneously affected labour markets (Castles and Miller, 2003). _________ has been markedly increasing since the early 1970s, especially in the English-speaking countries which are the most dynamic in this respect.
- 55. Fill in the BlankThe __________ are the most footloose section of the population: the professional middle class, having in general, more control and autonomy in their workplace, and a tendency to understand their working as a “career” often change jobs and many are ready to relocate to another city or country (Colic- Peisker, 2010: Moretti, 2012).
- 56. Fill in the BlankThe ________________ workers often move jobs by necessity but not as ready to move between cities and countries. These two sections of the increasingly polarized workforce fit nicely into the classical dichotomy of “cosmopolitan vs. locals” proposed by Merton back in the 1950s and further developed by Gouldner in the late 1970s.
- 57. Fill in the BlankThe international education market, which nowadays move considerable middle- class populations of young people across the globe, represents a significant potential on the “______” in large, attractive cities. All cities worthy of the “global city” title are nowadays magnets for international students.
- 58. Fill in the BlankFollowing Moretti’s (2012)- it is plausible that global cities indeed need to be brain hubs and good human ecosystems attracting and retaining the creative class…therefore, cities remain the critical ‘___________’ by attracting the crucial workforce of the ‘creative capitalism (Florida 2005: 29).
- 59. Fill in the BlankThe socioeconomic dynamic of the global city gives primacy to the consumer culture, which promises ____________.
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