Largely empty forms, forms devoid of most distinctive content. (A term used by Ritzer).
Largely political images either produced by states and in line with their ideology, or the images and counter-ideologies produced by movements that seek to supplant those in power, or at least to gain a piece of that power; one of Appadurai's landscapes.
________ is an emphasis on quantity, often to the detriment of quality; a dimension of McDonaldization.
The electronic capability to produce and transmit information around the world as well as the images of the world that these media create and disseminate; one of Appadurai's landscapes.
Those on the move throughout the globe because they want to be.
The expansion of the laissez-faire market and the self-protective reaction against it by the state and society.
Mobile groups and individuals (tourists, refugees, guest workers). One of Appadurai's landscapes.
________ _______ refers to a political theory that sees nation-states relating to one another through multiple channels and that emphasizes informal channels where, for example, entities (e.g., MNCS) other than the state connect societies to one another.
__________ is a perspective on globalization that emphasizes the increasing diversity associated with unique mixtures of the global and the local as opposed to the uniformity associated with grobalization.
___________ refers to a process through which widely held ideas about differences between the East and the West, or Europe and the "Orient," are constructed.
__________ refers to the interpenetration of the global and the local resulting in unique outcomes in different geographic areas.
___________ is the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society, as well as the rest of the world; in the latter sense, a form of cultural imperialism.
___________ refers to the control and exploitation, especially economically, of a number of areas throughout the world by a nation(s) at the center.