Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface

Evidence

Globalisation refers essentially to that stretching process, in so far as the modes of connection between different social contexts or regions become networked across the earth’s surface as a whole. … Globalisation can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166

Categorization

• DEFINE: Provides Giddens’s canonical definition of globalisation as time-space distanciation stretched to the planetary scale.
• XREF: connects to: Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409; Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 24; Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 59 (+5 more)

Related

• Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems (similarity 0.88)
• Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives (similarity 0.86)
• Globalization is an intensified modern phase of an older colonial world-formation process. (similarity 0.85)
• Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.82)
• Microsocial interactions have risen to structural equivalence with macroscopic global phenomena. (similarity 0.81)
• Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change (similarity 0.81)
• Globalization is a hegemonic process of conforming difference, not erasing it. (similarity 0.80)
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.80)
• Uprooting and statelessness define modern global society (similarity 0.78)
• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change #complicates (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167
• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations #expands (0.65) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260