Globalization and Social Sciences مقاله

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Globalization researchers accept that globalization requires bridging temporal, spatial, and cultural distances in a new way; these processes are driven by revolutions that have occurred in transportation and communication technologies and the internationalization of capital (Ishringren, 1997; Giddens, 1994; Harvey, 1995; Woubay, 1991). Concepts such as the world system, post-industrialism, the information society, and the new world order are all reflections of the efforts of scholars and political leaders seeking to identify and understand contemporary local and global changes. Today, I want to highlight two other dimensions: 1) the integration of technology into the functions of transnational corporations and its impacts; and 2) the increase in social inequalities at both national and global levels. For example, Jerry Mandler (1993), an advertising agent who has turned to social sciences, argues that a new stage in the rise of the global economy has been made possible through fresh and novel ideas in information technology (for instance, computers). Gibson-Graham (1996/97) has also seen globalization in a similar way: "A set of processes through which the world is rapidly integrated into an economic space through increased international trade, the internationalization of production and financial markets, and the internationalization of consumer culture (which the expanding global telecommunications network has promoted)" (Gibson-Graham, 1996/97, p. Dependencies and commitments to society help define them, and this issue becomes important when the individual adapts to living in a globalized world system whose internal interdependence increases day by day.