Globalization: A Critical Framework for Understanding Contemporary Social Processes
by Dave Ramsaran & Derek V. Price
# Categories : Globalization (2003)
# Identifications : Article in Journals
# Number of pages : 26
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The term globalization describes the contradictory economic, political, and cultural processes of world capitalist integration. Although capitalism has been of a global character since the 1400s, the current phase of globalization is manifest by emergent transnational institutions, changing relations between multinational corporations and sovereign nation-states, and the development of a global monoculture of consumption. In order to articulate the contradictory processes of globalization, we propose a critical framework that explains globalization as a dialectical relationship between and within the suprastatal, statal, and intrastatal sectors of the global system. We argue that dominant global processes are not an immutable feature of capitalism, but are contested by social actors across these three dimensions.
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