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

Example

It is not possible to provide an example of 'a globalisation'. Globalisation is a proces that influences the whole world and is always going on. For this reason, there will be an example of a result of globalisation be given. Distributing McDonalds all over the world can be seen as a result of globalisation. Comparative chains like McDonalds also operate worldwide. This can be seen as an example: "The proces of becoming worldwide".

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.

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Edited by Anke Janssen, on Octobre 23