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" A social process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding. "
Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic ...
by Victor Roudometof - 2001 - 304 pages
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India in a Globalized World

Sagarika Dutt - 2006 - 248 pages
...regularized and patterns of interaction are discernable. Waters (1995: 3) defines globalization as 'a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding'. Geography, territorial borders and geographical distance are becoming meaningless and increasingly...
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Violence, Conflict, and World Order: Critical Conversations on State ...

Gregg Barak - 2007 - 308 pages
...for the purpose of establishing some type of common ground. Malcolm Waters defines globalization as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding." Mark Findlay refers to globalization as "the collapsing of time and space — the process whereby,...
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Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing

Russell W. Belk - 2007 - 609 pages
...dichotomy of the local and the global is broken down. Waters, for example, defines globalization as 'a social process in which the constraints of geography...people become increasingly aware that they are receding and in which people act accordingly' (2001, p. 5). This definition implies, first of all, that the...
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Teacher Education: Globalisation, standards and teacher education

David Hartley, Maurice Whitehead - 2006 - 452 pages
...be an interactive process. All this is globalisation. As Waters (1995, p. 3) says, globalisation is a 'social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding'. In the United Kingdom (UK), 'deterministic, inevitabilistic constructions of globalisation have been...
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Pathways to the Public Square: Practical Theology in an Age of Pluralism ...

International Academy of Practical Theology. Meeting - 2005 - 334 pages
...intensified experience of translocation. Thus the following description of globalisation by Waters (1995:3): 'A social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding'. Part and parcel of this ongoing process is what Waters calls processes of exchange. He divides it into...
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Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action

Richard Pierre Claude, Burns H. Weston - 2006 - 576 pages
...Polanyi called an "avalanche of social dislocation."2 Globalization is defined by Malcolm Waters as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...which people become increasingly aware that they are receding."5 The information explosion, the world-wide reach of mass media, and ease of communications...
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Learning to Seek: Globalization, Governance, And the Futures of Higher Education

Walter Truett Anderson, James Allen Dator, Jim Dator, Majid Tehranian - 2006 - 154 pages
...conversation in three categories, reflecting those three trends. Globalization: Best defined as "a process in which the constraints of geography on social...become increasingly aware that they are receding"- globalization already affects both the context and the content of education at all levels. At the university...
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Comparative Education Research: Approaches and Methods

Mark Bray, Bob Adamson, Mark Mason - 2007 - 444 pages
...more universalist and deterritorialised form of identity. For Waters (1995, p. 3) globalisation is "a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding". It is about, in Delanty's (2000, p. 81) version, the diminishing importance of geographical constraints...
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Changing Education: Leadership, Innovation and Development in a Globalizing ...

Peter D. Hershock, Mark Mason, John N. Hawkins - 2007 - 350 pages
...society, that cut across the borders of nations" (1998, p. 137). In Waters' (1995, p. 3) definition, it is "a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding." It is about, in Delanty's version, the diminishing importance of geographical constraints in defining...
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Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local

Robert F. Arnove, Carlos Alberto Torres - 2007 - 432 pages
...postindustrialization, postmodernization, post-Fordism, and the information society. In sum, it can be defined as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding." 55 Economic globalization is the result of a worldwide economic restructuring that involves the globalization...
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