5.1 Perspective on globalisation

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Across
  1. 1. the process by which cultures around the world increasingly have the same characteristics
  2. 3. social and cultural activities are no longer associated with particular geographical places but are instead transnational
  3. 5. a term used by postmodernists for large-scale theories or stories explaining the world and human life
  4. 11. a series of links between places where raw materials are sourced to manufacture commodities which are distributed and sold on the world market
  5. 13. the interconnected nature of dimensions of inequality, such as social class, gender and ethnicity, as they apply to particular individuals and groups
  6. 14. set of neo-liberal policies that developing nations can be made to accept as a condition of receiving financial or other support
  7. 17. the process by which the global and the local are increasingly connected to each other
  8. 18. transfers of money sent home by migrants to their family in their home country
Down
  1. 2. a single world culture, in which distinctive ways of life (language, clothing, norms and values and so on) have been lost
  2. 4. businesses that have globalised their operations; they produce and sell around the world, use global supply chains and employ people in many different countries
  3. 6. McLuhan's term to describe how electronic media have metaphorically shrunk the world into a village
  4. 7. the separation of time and space, so that individuals increasingly interact less face-to-face and more through, for example, the internet and money
  5. 8. a movement in which cities around the world declare themselves to be world citizen cities and assume global rights and responsibilities
  6. 9. theory that argues development must be understood in the context of global systems and networks, with the focus on understanding how nations are locked into political and economic relationships that make them interdependent
  7. 10. the lifting out of social relations from their original context so that communication becomes increasingly abstract
  8. 12. personal links between people across the globe based on the paid or unpaid work of caring
  9. 15. as used by Baudrillard, a simulacrum is a copy of something that has no original or for which the original has been lost
  10. 16. when elements of two or more cultures combine to create a new culture