Global Uprising: Global Uprising: Global Uprising: Global Uprising:...: Global Uprising Anthony Giddens on Globalization. (Intensification of worldwide social relations by Giddens on Globalization. (www.system dynamics.org/conferences/2009/proceed/papers/P1072.pdf
A widely cited sociologist, Anthony Giddens, former director of the London School of Economics
and an adviser to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair writes about the Globalization process.
Giddens focused on the individual in society. Giddens sees globalization as the motor of development that brings varied changes which shape modern societies. It is a process that contained varied, often opposing tendencies. According to Lane and Huseman(2008) emphasized that Transnational Corporations(TC) can create competition among countries as TC power grows with an increasingly large influence in the world economy thereby causing individual citizens to lose their sense of influence on shaping the political agenda. Lane and Huseman is in agreement with Giddens concerning the individual. Giddens said that Globalization through TC growth outsourcing and international division of labor leads to social unevenness. Short-termed unemployment grows in nation states where jobs are outsourced. This reduced peoples' quality of life. Giddens also stressed about the global risk of social disorientation which affects the citizen of the world. and the ecological risk connected with the threat of health risk. These risks reduce peoples' quality of life.
Even though globalization has its good where free trade and borderless economy is concerned yet that same globalization could impact peoples' lives negatively.
C. Samuel In essence globalization has produced both negative and positive elements. It benefits both the economic and technological aspect in society. Coming out of globalization is the phenomenon capitalism, which has prompted an uneven playing field where richer and more developed countries tend to exploit poorer and vulnerable countries. This has lead to the creation of a dependency syndrome. However, despite negative fallout of globalization, the benefits included both economic and technological advancement. The economic aspect of globalization has opened countries to free trade, while the technological aspect has transformed the business sector. Given the negative aspect of globalization, future research should therefore attempt to correct the ills of this encompassing phenomena.
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