Globalisation

From Geography

The ideal type of late-modern life forms and globalized societies (temporal and spatial disembeddness) is mentioned by Benno Werlen in opposite to the ideal type of traditional life forms and regional societies. The main characteristics of late-modern life forms and globalized societies are:

1. Everyday routines sustain ontological security

2. Globally observable cultures, life forms, and lifestyles

3. Production and valued work determine social positions

4. Abstract systems (money, writing, and expert systems) enable mediated social relations over enormous distances

5. Worlwide communication systems

6. Global village as anonymous context of experience

References:

Werlen, B. (1995) Sozialgeographie Alltäglicher Regionalisierungen. Band 1: Zur Ontologie von Gesellschaft und Raum. Stuttgart.

Werlen, B. (2009) Structurationist Geography. The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier.