Globalisation

Globalisation "GLOBALISATION" has become one of the most talked subject and concepts in recent times. It has become the most popular subject of many articles, speeches and seminars. Before talking about the advantages and disadvantages of the globalisation we should firstly be sure of the description of it. For years, many sociologists defined it in different ways. The sociologist Anthony Giddens, for example, defines globalisation as a decoupling of space and time, emphasizing that with instantaneous communications, knowledge and culture can be shared around the world simultaneously .( http://www.globalisationguide.org/01.html, accessed 01/09/03) David Held and Anthony McGrew write in their entry for Oxford Companion to Politics that globalisation can be conceived as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions, expressed in transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction and power. (http://www.globalisationguide.org/01.html, accessed 01/09/03) With regard to advantages and disadvantages of globalisation, people are divided into two groups which first group is in favour of it as they think that if a country opens to world trade its economy gets more powerful than it was. China’s opening to world trade, for instance, has brought globalisation, countries, trade, world, should, poor, people, growth, wto, rich, means, accessed, 01/09/03, turkey, rural, rules, money, group, faster, business, years, technological, products, power, jobs, income, home, help, global, export, economic, developing, description, china, between