TRENDS, NETWORKS, AND

CRITICAL THINKING IN THE

21ST CENTURY
Quarter 3
Module 4, Week 4
The Components, Operations,
Effects and Networks of
Globalization
RODEL S. SARTAGODA
Compiler/Contextualizer
 Lesson The Components, Operations, Effects, and
1 Networks of Globalization
What I Need to Know

This module discussed the nature of globalization and importance of

cooperation and collaboration to achieve interconnectedness of people and nations.
This is further explained on how global network works.
Let us ask ourselves to this, where am I in this world and what can I offer? This
lesson will present the vast and powerful capacity of interconnecting the world. It
deals on globalization, labor, migration, economic system, collaboration through the
ASEAN 2015, and democracy. The 21st century world has made globalization mark
powerfully the borderlessness.
What’s In

The 21st century world has made it possible for everyone to access everything so
easily. Global networks cover interrelations and interconnections of people, services,
and institutions beyond the local, domestic, or national borders. It also appears in
many forms such as international production networks, international security
alliances, international amnesty, world health, world watch for marine life and
territories and among others. The networks are characterized by actors composed of
people, governments, and institutions or firms sharing common interests and
exchanging and interacting with one another.

What’s New
Global networks are basically avenues for communication which pave the way
for the creation of new forms of social interaction and organization. So, to start with let
us know how far you get to know and understand the scope of globalization.
Activity 1: CONCEPT MAPPING
Directions: In a separate paper, in your own simple understanding, make a map
about globalization of any designs/samples below. Use the criteria as basis for rating
for your output.
Criteria Content : 10 points
Creativity : 5 points
Organization of Concepts : 10 points
Lay-out : 5 points
Total : 30 Points
CONCEPT MAP DESIGNS/SAMPLE

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What Is It

One outstanding phenomenon from which emanated several global networks is

globalization. It comes from the word globalize which refers to the rise of global
networks of economic systems. Generally, globalization is a process involving the
interconnections, diffusion, and exchange of goods(production), services(technology),
ideas (communication), and people.
In line with this definition, social theorist Paul James (2014) identified Four
Different Forms of Globalization:
1. Embodied Globalization – refers to the movement or migration of people.
2. Agency-extended Globalization – which deals with the dispersion and exchange
of agents or representatives of various institutions, politics, and organization.
3. Object extended Globalization – which involves the mobility of goods,
commodities, and other objects of exchange such as machinery, money, and
food items.
4. Disembodied Globalization – which covers the diffusion of ides, knowledge, and
information such as the do’s and don’ts of dating. Confucian philosophy, and
good study habits across the world.
EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
Globalization affects your life and everyone else’s no matter your location and
distance from other people. Globalization has the following dimensions:
1. Economic Globalization – refers to international business which covers all
contracts and negotiations concerning sales, investments, mobilization, and
related transactions undertaken by two or more regions, countries, and
nations outside their political territories. It also involves human power,
capital, goods for global consumption and maintenance services such as
banking, insurance, engineering, construction, information technology and
other profitable ventures.

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 2. Sociocultural Globalization – refers to the spread of ideas, values, and
broadening social relations. It paves the way for the creation of shared norms
as well as of broader and deeper knowledge of other cultural identities. This
facilitates increased interrelation and interconnection among variegated
cultures and populations and a better appreciation for one another.
3. Social Globalization – covers the diffusion of beliefs, practices, and issues
concerning population growth, media, urbanization, tourism, education, and
sports that also drive nations, institutions, and governments to expand social
relations.
4. Political Globalization – this involves institutions, public policies, and
practices that cut across national borders to facilitate international
agreements and transactions.
5. Natural Environment Globalization – concerns of the environment where
the interaction of living species takes place. Many environmental problems to
be addressed such as water and air pollution, overconsumption of fish and
other marine resources, and global warming. The intense desire for high
economic growth, foreign capital and technological advancement of many
countries has forced them to deregulate some of their environmental and
resource protection laws.
THE DIMENSIONS AND COMPONENTS OF GLOBALIZATION.
International travel, trade and migration served as the stimuli for globalization.
However, a new vehicle of globalization, and the fastest at that has appeared. The
Internet both a product and a stimulus of globalization, plays a key role in
connecting peoples and integrating polities, economies, and cultures and is
unconstrained by national boundaries. It offers individual access to an enormous
amount of information and data available. The internet connects computer users all
over the world.
In 2010, computer users comprised 22% of the world’s population. Three
hundred million were internet users reading blogs, 1 billion used google daily, and 2
billion viewed YouTube videos every day.
Indeed, the internet is currently the fastest vehicle of globalization, defying
distance that once hampered communication and human interaction. All these
happen within the confines of the home. Much time, money, and energy are saved and
can be utilized for other productive activities. The speed of communication and
transaction among individuals and firms have become faster with the aid of internet.
Globalization seems to have two faces like the yin and yang, or the positive and
negative elements close together. This concept describes opposites as interdependent
and interconnected with each other.
1. Delocalization – covers the decreasing face-to-face encounter both
local and international transactions. Telephone, mobile phone, email
and video chat have substituted for the physical interactions of
people, diminishing the opportunity to establish closer and improved
relations through personal encounters.
2. Decrease in the Power of National Government – is perceived to
have shrunk the power of national governments due to the
internationalization of financial markets, new technology, and
services which tend to constrain the national government’s freedom of
action.
3. Social Inequality – unregulated capitalism led to the unbalanced
economic development of some regions. While a few countries in a
particular region gained tremendous wealth, many were left in
poverty.
ADVANTAGES OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Access to New Cultures
2. The spread of technology and innovation
3. Lower costs for products
4. Higher standard of living across the globe.

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 5. Access to new markets
6. Job creation
7. Increase production of companies due to high demand.
DISADVANTAGES/RISKS OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Delocalization
2. Non-controlled circulation of money (free market)
3. Exploitation of the workers in a developing country.
4. The mix of cultures can lead to racism, xenophobia, intolerance, and loss of
national identity.
5. Gap between rich and poor people increases.
6. Unequal opportunities and financial insecurities
7. Environment degradation and destruction of small farmers
8. Low wages and exploitation of child labor
The migration of people in search of work, whether domestic or international,
has ever since been a common phenomenon. People are unable to find work in their
locality or home country and would search for places where work opportunities are
available.
The interrelations and exchange among peoples, nations industries, and
institutions have been carried out more effectively and fruitfully by means of
collaboration and cooperation. These concepts are interchangeably used, although
there are, in a stricter sense, some differences.
Collaboration is working together toward a common end or goal by actors
(people, nations, industries, and institutions) who are not necessarily
allies. In collaboration, the actors set aside their differences and focus
on their mutual interest which is the attainment of common goals.
Cooperation is jointly working in pursuit of a common end or goal by
actors.
Cooperation is better understood in the study of regionalism or the interrelations
among the actors in a particular geographic area.
Collaboration and Cooperation is somehow a mutually beneficial relationship
between two or more parties to achieve common goals by sharing
responsibility, authority, and accountability for achieving results. It is
more than simply sharing knowledge and information
(communication) and more than a relationship that helps each party
achieve its own goals (cooperation and coordination). The purpose of
collaboration is to create a shared vision and joint strategies to
address concerns that go beyond the purview of any party (Crislip
and Larson, 1994).

What’s More
Activity 2: GLOBAL DIMENSION IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Using a separate paper, identify the dimension of globalization to
where each item belongs. Write E for economics, S for sociocultural, P for
political, and NE for natural environment.
1. Contracts of sales and investments
2. Sharing and spreading of ideas, values, and meanings
3. Public policy on illegal drugs across nations
4. Protection of marine resources
5. Joint military exercises
6. Diminishing trade barriers
7. Sufficient energy supply
8. Women and youth health programs
9. COVID-19 Health Issues and Protocols
10. Standardization and upgrade of both local and internal salary and
wages

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