Globalization - Answers a.process/processes involving increasing liquidity and growing the focus of
people, objects, places, and info as the structures they encounter and create that are barriers to those
flows.
b.The World Cup is an example of globalization. Soccer teams from all over the world come together to
compete.
c.Brings the world together for one purpose, the purpose to share and watch a sport that they love. The
passion for the sport brings the globe together.
Transnationalism - Answers a.The processes that interconnect individuals and social groups across
specific geo-political borders.
b.Mexican immigrants in the US sending remittances home to family members in Mexico.
c.Immigrants may need to leave home to find jobs and provide for their family while their family stays at
home and lives off what the family member in the other country is making.
Transnationality - Answers a.The rise of new communities and formation of new social identities and
relations that cannot be defined as nation-states.
b.Baseball is a transnational sport; many of its fundamentals and players have circulated across the
borders of a small number of nations especially Japan, Taiwan, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and the
U.S.
c.This allows athletes to travel the world and play/entertain with the sport they love to play. They get to
share their passions with the rest of the world and others to love it also.
Globality - Answers a.Constant encounter of the process of globalization
b.The book "Globalization: A Basic Text" is written by an American, the copywriter and editor is from
England, the develop editor is in Canada, the reviewers are from four different continents, and the book
is published throughout the world.
c.This process keeps people informed all over the world and they are able to access information that
they wouldn't be able to otherwise without it going global and going through a 'liquid' process.
Solidity - Answers a.A world in which barriers exist and are erected to prevent the free movement of
people, things, info and places.
b.The Soviet Union for much of the twentieth century had its satellite states that sought to erect any
number of barriers in order to keep things from going in and out especially people.
,c.Solidity made it hard for globalization to expand and make more of a globalized nation. This made it so
people, and things, info couldn't get in or out of certain countries without permission of the government
and that gave no freedom to their people.
Liquidity - Answers a.Movement in people, things, info and places
b.Emma Maersk is the first container ship in the E-class that hauled Christmas goods from China to the
United Kingdom.
c.Being able to globalize and work together will get us to come together as one. There are people for
and against liquidity because they feel as if it has a more positive or more negative affect on the world.
Gaseousness - Answers a.Hyper- mobility of places, things, info, and people in the global age
b.Someone buying a book off amazon and it being shipped from the place to their house in two days.
c.This helps businesses in being more efficient and successful. It reels in more business because people
find it easier.
Flows - Answers a.Movement of people, things, places, and info due to the increasing attention of global
barriers
b.Sushi globalized from its roots in Japan flowing around the world to other people in different cultures.
c.People are now able to experience foods in different cultures and bring them into their own cultures in
their home country or town. Some don't want to integrate cultures but many love the integration.
Interconnected flows - Answers a.Global flows that connect at various points and times
b.The global sex industry requires the intersection of the flow of people who work in the industry with
the flow of customers. The industry also has to connect with money and drugs and it also interacts with
transmitted diseases.
c.The significance is that everything comes together in one way or another around the world.
Multi-directional flows - Answers a.Things flowing in every direction among many points in the world
b.IPhones manufactured in China flow in and out of the U.S and the West and all other parts of the
world to eventually get into a customers hand.
c.The significance is that all parts of the world are working together to make the industrial business
work.
Conflicting flows - Answers a.Globalization processes that conflict with one another
b.The on going war between the United States and al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda wants to increase its
engagement and is doing that by terrorist activities and the U.S. is countering that threat.
, c.This is significant to everyone to see the negative sides of globalization and how it could lead to
disaster.
Reverse flows - Answers a.Processes that flow in one direction but act back on their sources
b.Some countries may insist that industries are built with high smokestacks so pollution goes to other
countries instead of their own but the direction of wind may change and the pollution will then hit their
country instead.
c.Pollution could affect the home country more and pollute their country instead of others the way they
wanted.
Economic globalization - Answers A) refers to the increasing interdependence of world economies as a
result of the growing scale of cross-border trade of commodities and services, flow of international
capital and wide and rapid spread of technologies.
Vagabonds - Answers A) a person who is forced from place to place without a home
Tourists - Answers a.People who move about the world because they want to
b.When my family and I went to Germany to visit friends and tour the city we were in.
c.The significance of this is being able to explore the world and bring more money to the countries that
are being visited. Tourist attractions bring in major amount of money.
Structures - Answers A) Sets of processes that either impede or block flows to expedite and channel
them
B) China providing scholarships to international students to come and learn Chinese language and
culture
C) Structures invite and block the flow of globalization
Globalists - Answers A: take the position that there is such a thing as globalization and it encompasses
virtually the entirety of the globe.
B: I would be a globalist because I believe that globalization is real and happens everywhere in the
world.
C: The significance of a globalist is that they believe there is globalization therefor they believe actions
affect the whole world globalist will take ideas from other parts of the world therefor creating
standardization.
Global skeptics - Answers A: Do not believe that there is such a thing as globalization and that it
encompasses the entirety of the globe.