...dimension of the latter. Robertson's definition of globalization will provide the organizational principle: Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole — its main empirical focus is in line with the increasing acceleration in both concrete global interdependence...

...find space within the processes of globalization. Robertson's famous statement that "globalisation as a concept refers both to the compression of the...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole" (1992, p. 8) provides the setting for his argument that local cultures now, more than ever, can potentially...

...characterize the comprehensive features of this process is 'globalization/ which Robertson (1992) says 'refers both to the compression of the world and the...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole' (p. 8; see also Waters, 1995). In economics, the embracement of a marketbased economy by developed...

...1997, Pries 1998, Smith / Guarnizo 1996. 47 Siehe z. B. Castells 1996. Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts. "Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole.' Damit hat Globalisierung eine objektive Seite (z. B. die tatsächliche Verkürzung der Zeit für die...

...economies, polities, and societies of the world gradually recede. According to Roland Robertson, the concept refers "both to the compression of the world...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole." 4 It involves the relativization of individual and national reference points to general and supranational...

...interconnectedness of social life in the (post) modern worldi (Box 1.1). For Robertson (1992 p. 8), the concept refers 'both to the compression of the world...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole'.4 Globalisation is evident in three forms: 1 . Economic globalisation - seen in arrangements...

...strongest claim to paternity of the concept of globalisation. For him, globalisation 'refers to both the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole . . . both concrete global interdependence and consciousness of the global whole in the Twentieth Century'...

...localization. However, across the world there is growing consciousness of interdependence. He claims that 'globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of the world as a whole' (p. 8). Although it permeates the affairs of all societies across the world,...

...shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa" (p. 64). Robertson (1992) defines it as "the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole" (1992, p. 8). "Globalization" refers to the interconnected complexity of contemporary worldwide processes...

...objectiveempirical and the subjective-experiential dimensions of the process. As a concept, he wrote, globalization refers "both to the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole." Amplifying this statement in the light of recent sociological...