Globalization is a hegemonic process of conforming difference, not erasing it.
Evidence
This is a dialectical process because such local happenings may move in an obverse direction from the very distanciated relations that shape them. Local transformation is as much a part of globalisation as the lateral extension of social connections across time and space. … The increasing prosperity of an urban area in Singapore might be causally related, via a complicated network of global economic ties, to the impoverishment of a neighbourhood in Pittsburgh whose local products are uncompetitive in world markets. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167; Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them
Related
- Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change (similarity 0.89)
- Globalization weakens national sovereignty while deepening global inequalities (similarity 0.81)
- Globalization has occurred in multiple distinct historical waves (similarity 0.80)
- Globalization is an intensified modern phase of an older colonial world-formation process. (similarity 0.80)
- Globalization is externally imposed and benefits globalizers over its victims (similarity 0.80)
- Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface (similarity 0.80)
- World market expansion can intensify pre-capitalist production relations. (similarity 0.79)
- Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.79)
- Globalization is narrowing the common-law and civil-law divide. (similarity 0.79)
- Modernization is distinct from Westernization and does not create a universal civilization (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them
#expands(0.95) - Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change
#corroborates(0.90) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167