What’s on the What Globalisation Means poster
A definition and 6 facts worth remembering.
The deepening of cross-border connection in economic, political, cultural and demographic life, such that distant events shape local ones more directly.
- Capital: finance moves fastest of the four.
- Goods: trade in components, not finished items.
- People: the most restricted flow by far.
- Culture and information: cheapest to move.
- Giddens: time-space distanciation.
- Robertson: the world compressed and made one.
- Freest flow — capital
- Most restricted — people
- A currency position can cross a border in a second; the person holding it may wait ye…
Educational reference. Not a single process: measures of trade, capital and migration integration diverge markedly.
Questions about the What Globalisation Means poster
- What’s on the What Globalisation Means poster?
- A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. The deepening of cross-border connection in economic, political, cultural and demographic life, such that distant events shape local ones more directly. Capital: finance moves fastest of the four.; Goods: trade in components, not finished items.; People: the most restricted flow by far.; Culture and information: cheapest to move.; Giddens: time-space distanciation.; Robertson: the world compressed and made one.; Freest flow — capital; Most restricted — people; A currency position can cross a border in a second; the person holding it may wait ye…. Educational reference. Not a single process: measures of trade, capital and migration integration diverge markedly.
- Who is the What Globalisation Means poster for?
- What Globalisation Means belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning globalisation can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the What Globalisation Means poster?
- Before using one word for four processes with different histories. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so What Globalisation Means belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with What Globalisation Means?
- Glocalisation, Risk Society and Culture: Flat or Plural sit alongside What Globalisation Means in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.GlocalisationRisk SocietyCulture: Flat or Plural
- Is the What Globalisation Means poster free to download and print?
- Yes. What Globalisation Means downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the What Globalisation Means poster print at?
- What Globalisation Means is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of What Globalisation Means loses nothing.Printing guide
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