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Globalisation (Causes of globalisation (Improved technology (Easier to…
Globalisation
Causes of globalisation
Improved Transport
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E.G. rapid growth in air-travel, enabling greater movement of people across the globe
Containerisation
From 1970, a rapid adoption of steel transport container
Reduced costs of inter-modal transport, making trade cheaper and more efficient
Improved technology
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To improve a website, go to a global community, e.g. elance.com, and people can bid for the right to provide a service - making labour relatively cheap as they would be lower in areas like Indian sub-continent
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Reduced tariff barriers
Encourage global trade, occurred through the support of the WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
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Growth of global media
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Impact of social media on connecting people socially and professionally, as well as creating additional subcultures and movements
Global trade cycle
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E.G. recession in one country affects global trade and invariably causes an economic downturn in major trading partners
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Government of Ethiopia
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Resettling thousands of self-sufficient tribal people - leaving them with no land, cattle herds or livelihood
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Beneficiaries of this 'development' are being arrested, beaten or raped
Grain stores are being destroyed in an effort to force them to give up their lands and ways of life - humanitarian catastrophe
Digital revolution
The exponential shift in communication over the past two decades in terms of the ways in which information is stored and shared
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Giddens, Duneier & Applebaum (2005)
Giddens, Duneier & Applebaum (2005)
"...Not only are societies changing, but the pace of change is accelerating beyond any pace previously thought possible"
Due to technology, globalisation, we're making more progress in a much shorter period of time
Global Village
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Virtual Communities
A social network of individuals who create an online community which may or may not reflect their offline lives
Crosses geographical, political and social lines, and are becoming increasingly complex and realistic
The compression of time and distance which results in increasing interdependence of societies across the globe resulting in an increasingly global cultures, economics and politics
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