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  2. Modernization theory - Wikipedia

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    Modernization theory holds that as societies become more economically modernized, wealthier and more educated, their political institutions become increasingly liberal democratic. [1] The "classical" theories of modernization of the 1950s and 1960s, most influentially articulated by Seymour Lipset, [1] drew on sociological analyses of Karl Marx ...

  3. Political globalization - Wikipedia

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    Political globalization is the growth of the worldwide political system, both in size and complexity. That system includes national governments , their governmental and intergovernmental organizations as well as government-independent elements of global civil society such as international non-governmental organizations and social movement ...

  4. Environmental issues in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Today, environmental problems in the Philippines include pollution, mining and logging, deforestation, threats to environmental activists, dynamite fishing, landslides, coastal erosion, biodiversity loss, extinction, global warming and climate change. [1][2][3] Due to the paucity of extant documents, a complete history of land use in the ...

  5. Multilingualism and globalization - Wikipedia

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    Multilingualism and globalization. Globalization has had major effects on the spread and ascribed value of multilingualism. Multilingualism is considered the use of more than one language by an individual or community of speakers. [1] Globalization is commonly defined as the international movement toward economic, trade, technological, and ...

  6. Westernization - Wikipedia

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    The insight by Edelman, R., & Wilson, W. (2017) explains “This new system of thought and practices imbued with positive values in the exertion and strategic deployment of the human body, embracing the Anglo-American notion that physical activity was meaningful in and of itself, conducive to values such as learning and character-building.

  7. Climate change in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Climate change is having serious impacts in the Philippines such as increased frequency and severity of natural disasters, sea level rise, extreme rainfall, resource shortages, and environmental degradation. [1] All of these impacts together have greatly affected the Philippines' agriculture, water, infrastructure, human health, and coastal ...

  8. Economic globalization - Wikipedia

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    Economic globalization refers to the widespread international movement of goods, capital, services, technology and information. It is the increasing economic integration and interdependence of national, regional, and local economies across the world through an intensification of cross-border movement of goods, services, technologies and capital ...

  9. Global cultural flows - Wikipedia

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    Global cultural flow involves the flow of people, artifacts, and ideas across national boundaries as result of globalization. [1][2]: 296 Global cultural flows can be observed in five interdependent ' Landscapes ', or dimensions, that distinguish the fundamental disjunctures between economy, culture, and politics in the global cultural economy.