Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Roland Robertson (August 7, 1938 - April 29, 2022) was a sociologist and theorist of globalization who lectured at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Formerly, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh , and in 1988 he was the President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion .
At a 1997 conference on "Globalization and Indigenous Culture", sociologist Roland Robertson stated that glocalization "means the simultaneity – the co-presence – of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies". [10]
Globality is the consciousness of the world as a single place. The concept of globality was introduced in the social sciences by British sociologist Roland Robertson.It signifies the spreading and deepening consciousness of the world-as-a-whole and could thus be considered the phenomenological aspect of globalization, which Robertson defined as "the compression of the world and the ...
"Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State" by Linda Weiss, New Left Review, Vol. a, (1997) "Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance. Paul Hirst , Grahame Thompson" by Roland Robertson, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 102, No. 4, (1997)
Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, ... [22] In 1992, Roland Robertson, ...
Landmark papers published by the journal include Roland Robertson's "Globalisation or Glocalisation?" and Halim Rane's "Social media, social movements and the diffusion of ideas in the Arab uprisings".
Globalization is now thought of as an important concept to understanding the world. Certain schools believe it is important to discuss global issues as young as 5 years old. It is students who are our future; therefore understanding the concept of "think globally, act locally" is fundamental to our future.
The transnational capitalist class (TCC), also known as the transnational capitalist network (TCN), in neo-Gramscian and Marxian-influenced analyses of international political economy and globalization, is the global social stratum that controls supranational instruments of the global economy such as transnational corporations and heavily influences political organs such as the World Trade ...