...global identity and global mentality is growing. Following Waters, globalization can be defined as: 'A social process in which the constraints of geography...increasingly aware that they are receding' (Waters, 1995: 3). From such understandings, it is obvious that scale is a key dimension. It is assumed that people no...

...recognizes the importance of a change in people's awareness: We can therefore define globalization as: A social process in which the constraints of geography...increasingly aware that they are receding (Waters 1995: 3; emphasis in original). 24 Globalization is more than a matter of objective changes in society, the...

...highlights changes in the influence of space on society: We can therefore define globalization as: A social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding. l3 Finally, Anthony Giddens's approach focuses on globalization as an interactive or dialectical process:...

...sometimes at cross purposes. We agree with Waters's view that globalization can be roughly denned as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding" (1996, 3). Although circuits of migration, trade, and colonialism have linked the globe for millennia,...

...humanity exists within but as only one part of a larger life system. Globalisation can be defined as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding" tWaters. 1996 in Germain. 2000a). although there are critics of this definition tGermain. 2000b). The...

...implied the universal i/.at ion of the processes they explain. (1995, 1) Waters defines globalization as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding" (1995, 3). In terms of spatial patterns of global change, the growing power of minority language communities...

...Cambridge 1997. 20 A. Giddens, Runawav World, aaO, S. 18f. Waters definiert Globalisierung wie folgt: »A social process in which the constraints of geography...which people become increasingly aware that they are receding.«21 In diesem Zitat wird mit dem Verweis auf die Tatsache, daß Individuen den Globalisierungsprozeß...

...global character of capitalism. Malcolm Waters, following Anthony Giddens, explains globalization as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...which people become increasingly aware that they are receding."5 Globalization specifically refers to the increasing capacity of people to rapidly (or instantly)...

...postindustrialization, postmodernization, post-Fordism, and the information society. In sum, it can be defined as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...which people become increasingly aware that they are receding."55 Economic globalization is the result of a worldwide economic restructuring that involves...

...political, economic and cultural arenas.17 Globalization has been described generally as a process by which: '. . .the constraints of geography on social...which people become increasingly aware that they are receding.'18 The end result of such a globalization process, Malcolm Waters suggests, would be the...