MEANING
A process in which economic, social, cultural, or political activities become more connected across countries.
Use it for
analyzing links that operate across national boundaries; describing the wider reach of production or communication; distinguishing international connection from uniformityDescribes expanding cross-country connections without equating them with complete cultural sameness. Academic functions: Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- economic globalization
- cultural globalization
- the effects of globalization
On the page
The essay distinguishes economic globalization from the claim that local cultures are becoming identical.
Globalization can change the scale of production while leaving substantial differences among national institutions.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- globalization
Usage notes
Normally uncountable. Use forms or phases of globalization rather than a routine plural. British globalisation is a spelling variant. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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