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Glocalization, or glocalism, in community organization refers to community organizing that sees social problems as neither local or global, [36] but interdependent and interconnected (glocal), [37] necessitating organizing practices that concurrently address local problems and global issues. [38]
The Glocal Forum was created in 2001 to emphasize the role of local authorities in the world governance system. [1] [2] 25 cities attended the first meeting in Rome in 2002. [3]
Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to international trade, the liberalization of capital movements, the development of transportation, and the advancement of information and communication technologies. [1]
Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations. [1] This process is marked by the common consumption of cultures that have been diffused by the Internet, popular culture media, and international travel.
Grobalization, a term coined by Ritzer himself, refers to "imperialistic ambitions of nations, corporations, organizations, and the like and their desire, indeed need, to impose themselves on various geographic areas". [33] As opposite to glocalization, grobalization aims to "overwhelm local". [32]
The mediascape refers to the scope of electronic and print media in global cultural flows; it refers both to the distribution of the electronic capabilities to produce and disseminate information (newspapers, Magazines, television, Films, etc.), as well as to "the images of the world created by these media." Such mediascapes provide vast ...
French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu views language, and more specifically multilingual skills, as a form of social and symbolic capital that follows speakers as they search for work and power both locally and transnationally. [3]
Roland Robertson (1970 Shocken Books ISBN 9780805233476) The Sociological Interpretation of Religion J. P. Nettl, Roland Robertson (1968 New York Basic Books ISBN 9780571084166) International Systems and the Modernization of Societies