Globalizations Discourses; Preliminary Considerations مقاله

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Despite some efforts by sociologists toward precise, analytical, and multidimensional conceptualization of globalization, negative and chaotic discussions about "globalization" have escalated to such an extent that researchers ______________________________ Arghon 24 / Summer 2004 rigorous regarding the compression of the world as a whole, in a long historical perspective, struggle with the arduous task of how to maintain their intellectual rigor when faced with the loose and often ideological use of the aforementioned word. In addressing the issue of globalization discourses, we do not intend to preserve the "purity" of academic analysis; rather, we firmly believe that the recent work of social scientists regarding what can only be called the "shaping of the world" has contained specific requirements for a general and everyday understanding of the totality of the contemporary world. The Word and Concept of Globalization Perhaps the most interesting point about the recent use of the term "globalization" is that in its many applications in newspapers, popular books, magazines, radio and television programs, internet communications, and also some academic circles, it is often used without any specific meaning. This view of Giddens, which considers globalization to be one of the consequences of modernity, is actually a complement to the common view found abundantly in the so-called Third World and other non-Western regions of the world, as well as in political legitimacy circles in the West (although Giddens himself, in recent decades, has dedicated most of his works to the subject of agency).