Globalization: The Key Concepts

Abstract Systems

Active Citizens

Alien Culture

Americanization

Anarchism

Anticipation of Pleasure

Antiglobalization

Anti-Imperialism

Asymptotic Progression

Atomization

Aura (of Cultural Phenomenon)

Automobility

Autonomization (of an Institution)

Autonomization (of Culture)

Axial Period

Axial Principle

Balance of Power

Basic Needs

Biculturalism

Bio-Politics

Bio-Power

Biospheric Politics

Bodily Display

Bretton Woods Institutions

Bureaucracy

Capitalism

Centrism

Chaos Theory

Choice (Discourse of)

Citizenship

Civil Inattention

Civil Society

Clash of Civilizations

Cleft Countries

Cnn Effect

Coca-Colonization

Coevolution

Cognitive Reflexivity

Collectivism

Colonialism

Commodification

Commodity Biographies

Commodity Candidacy

Commodity Chains

Commodity Fetishism

Commodity Flows

Commodity Phase

Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

Communicative Rationality

Communities of Fate

Communities of Limited Liability

Community Participation

Complexity Theory

Confluent Love

Constructive Postmodernism (or Integralism)

Consumerism

Consumption Rituals

Contextual Universalism

Contingency Theory

Contracting Out

Convergence Thesis

Core-Periphery Model

Corporatism

Cosmocracy

Cosmopolis

Cosmopolitan Democracy

Cosmopolitanism

Counter-Culture

Counter-Hegemony

Counter-Narratives

Creolization

Cultural Autonomy

Cultural Capital

Cultural Convergence

Cultural Defence Plea

Cultural Dumping

Cultural Economy

Cultural Entrepreneurs

Cultural Fate

Cultural Heritage

Cultural Imperialism

Cultural Integration

Cultural Landscape

Cultural Storage

Cultural Synchronization

Cultural Tourism

Culturalism

Culture Industry

Culture of Civility

Cyberactivism

Debt Relief

Decisionism

Decolonization

Decommoditization

De-Governmentalization

Democracy

Dependency Theory

Developmental State

Diaspora

Digital Divide

Digital Nomads

Direct Action

Disconnected Contiguity

Discrepant Cosmopolitanism

Disorganized Capitalism

Distant Proximities

Divergence/Convergence

Divided Self

Downsizing

Economic Liberalization

Ecotourism

Embedded Journalists

Embedding

Embodiment

Empire

Enclave

Enclaved Commodities

End of History

Epistemic Communities

Epistemic Violence

Essentialism

Ethnic Diversity

Ethnic Tourism

Ethnocentrism

Ethnocide

Ethnolinguistic

European Union (EU)

Europeanization

Exchange Value

Experts/Expert Systems

Export Processing Zone (EPZ)

Extra-Legal Economy

Fair Trade/Free Trade

False Consciousness

False Needs

Family Wage (Decline of)

Feminism

Feminization of the Workforce

Fetishism Theory

Financialization

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

Formal/Informal Economies

Fragmentation (Social)

Fragmented State

Free Trade

Fundamentalism

Futurist/Futurology/Future Studies

G7/G8

Gatt

GDI (Gender Development Index)

Gem (Gender Empowerment Measure)

Gemeinschaft

Genealogies (of Globalization)

Genoa

Geopolitical Rationality

Global Capitalism

Global Cities

Global Commodity Chain (GCC)

Global Elite

Global English

Global Fluids

Global Governance

Global Health Policy

Global Labor Market

Global Managerial Class/Global Elite

Global Media

Global Politics

Global Social Policy

Global Sub-Politics

Global Union Federations (GUFs)

Global Village

Globalism

Globality

Globalization from Below

Glocal/Glocalization

Governmentality

Habitus

Hard/Soft Power

Hegemony

Heritage Tourism

Heterogeneity

High Modernity

Homogenization

Human Capital

Human Rights

Hybridity/Hybridization

Hyperglobalist Thesis

Hypermasculinity

Hyperreality

Identity Politics

Identity Thinking

Ideological State Apparatus

IFA (International Framework Agreements)

IGO (Intergovernmental Organization)

Imaginative Hedonism

Imagined Communities

IMF (International Monetary Fund)

Imperialism

Income Polarization

Incorporation Theory

Index Of Social Progress

Indigenization

Indigenous Culture

Individuation

Industrialization

Informal Economies

Information Age

Infotainment

INGO (International Non-Governmental Organization)

Inhuman Hybrids

Institutional Reflexivity

International Financial Institutions

Internationalization

Internet

Interpellation

Kin Country Rallying

Kitsch

Knowledge Society

Kyoto

Language Rights

Legitimation Crisis

Liberal Democracy

Liberal Humanism

Liberalization

Lifestyle

Lifestyle Enclaves

Lifeworld

Liminal/Liminality

Liquid Modernity

Localization

Macroanthoropology

Marginalization/Centralization

Market Segmentation

Marx/Marxism

Mass Media Conglomerates

Master Concepts

Materialism

Mcdonaldization

Media Imperialism

Metaculture

Microglobalization

Microstate

Migration

Mobility

Modernism

Modernity

Monetarization

Montage

Moral Economy

Multicultural/Ism

Multinational Corporation (MNC)

Nation-State

Nation-State, Decline of

Nationalism

Nationalization/Nationalized Industries

Neoconservatism

Neoliberalism

Network Society

New Labour

New Public Management

Ngo (Non-Governmental Organization)

Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)

Non-Modern

North/South Divide

OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development)

Offshoring

One World Paradigm

Open Society

Organization Of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Orientalism

Panopticon

Particularlism

Perfect Knowledge

Performative Citizenship

Placeless Geography

Pluralism

Pluralist Paradigm

Policy Agendas

Policy Cycle

Policy Evaluation

Policy Programs

Political Globalization

Postcolonialism

Post-Fordism

Post-Information Age

Post-Materialism

Postmodernity/Postmodernism

Post-Tourist

Primitive Accumulation

Privatization

Protectionism (Economic)

Psuedo Events

Quango

Racialization (of Governmental Processes)

Radical Modernity

Rationalities of Risk

Realist Paradigm

Re-Embedding

Reflexive Modernization/Modernity

Reflexivity

Reform (Political)

Relativism

Re-Localization

Revitalization Movement

Risk

Seattle

Semi-Periphery Countries

Service Work

Simulacrum

Skeptics

Social Capital

Social Movements

Societies of Control

Soft Power

Sovereignty

State

Statist Paradigm

Structural Adjustment Programs

Structuration

Subaltern

Subsistence Perspective

Supermodernity (or Hypermodernity)

Surplus Value

Sustainable Development

Sweatshop

Symbolic Analysts

Symbolic Capital

Territorialization (De– & Re–)

Third Way

Third World War (WWIII)

Time-Space Compression

Tobin Tax

Traditionalist

Transnational

Transnational Corporation (TNC)

Transnationalist Capitalist Class (TCC)

Trust

United Nations (UN)

Universal Civilization

Universal Human Rights

Universalism

Urbanism, Transnational

Wage Earner Welfare States

War Of Position

Welfare State

Westernization

Work Rich/Work Poor

World Bank

World Cities/Global Cities

World Culture Theory

WHO (World Health Organization)

World Hegemony

World Polity Theory

World Systems Theory

WTO (World Trade Organization)

World Works Council