...different social spheres, individualization would also be conducive to pluralism within each sphere. cultural arrangements recede and in which people become...increasingly aware that they are receding" (Waters, 1995, p. 3). Due to rapid international communication technology and increased migration, people are confronted...

...implementation. Hence, local politics rule popular imagination and subvert understanding of globalization as 'a social process in which the constraints of geography...increasingly aware that they are receding' (Waters 1995: 3). This objective view is in stark contrast with the materialist view that globalization is the process...

...Gutenberg Galaxy (i<j62). Malcolm Waters, a leading authority on the subject, defines globalization as a "process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and [as a consequence] people become increasingly aware that [such constraints] are receding" (1995, p....

...global electronic media. Indeed, globalization is a social process in which the constraints of geography recede and in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding. In essence, the reflexivity of globalization has given new meaning to Shakespeare's metaphorical observation...

...intensified experience of globalization. The same view is shared by Waters, for whom Globalization is a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding. (1995: 3) For both Robertson and Waters, this means that people have become aware and conscious of...

...hence its economic, cultural,17 social and political strands. Malcolm Waters defines globalization as 'a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding'. ls For the purpose of this article, I adopt the economic understanding of globalization, which is 'widely...

...cultural dynamics today. Malcolm Waters captures this aspect nicely in his definition of globalization as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...which people become increasingly aware that they are receding."9 Such awareness has a reflexive impact upon how people, in their local settings, understand...

...Reductionism similitude difference Spatial scale global local Attitude toward globalization positive negative and cultural arrangements recede and in which people...increasingly aware that they are receding" (Waters 1995:3); in other words, who you are is less determined by where you're at. Globalization, however,...

...capitalism which are associated with that globalization. Globalization has been denned (Waters 1995:3) as a "process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and people become increasingly aware they are receding". The emergence of a globally organized capitalism...

...time-space relations. Sociologist Malcolm Waters (1995: 3) defines globalisation as a set of processes 'in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede' (that is, the constraints of physical distance) and, in doing so, he highlights temporal and spatial...