...us first quote some attempts to define globalization in this general and necessarily vague manner: Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole. (Robertson, 1992: 8) We can therefore define globalization as: A social process in which the constraints...

...globalization focuses on both systemic connections and human awareness of those connections. As he puts it, "Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole."24 • An understanding of how the component parts of our world interact to produce change....

...therefore, must be studied in terms that do not refer to nations. According to Robertson (1992: 8), "globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole." Similarly, other authors define globalization as political...

...the boldest: globalization and the rise of the global city. Roland Robertson defines globalization as the "compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole" (in Hogan, 1 996:282). It is Manuel Castells, Saskia Sassen and Peter Hall, however, who have turned...

...transnational population movements have increased on a massive scale. Roland Robertson defines globalization as "the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole."' In fact, people can make transnational movements more quickly and less expensively than before, owing...

...interdependence and interconnectedness emerging around the world, and to the growing awareness of this: "Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole." (Robertson 1992, p. 8) Anthony Giddens is often seen as the second leading theorist on globalization,...

...civil society in Roland Robertson's book Globalization (1992; see also Robertson and Lechiner, 1985); 'Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole' (Robertson, 1992: 8). In the process of globalization, specific localities are argued to be linked...

...and as the increasing discussion and conceptualization of the world as a single unit: "glohalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole" (Robertson, 1992: 8). In environmental terms, there is much evidence to indicate that the increased...

...processes of globalisation has the following implication, as described by Robertson: 'Globalisation as a concept refers both to the compression of the...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole' (1992:8). Robertson further argues that a characteristic of the 20th century is our participation in...

...the concept of globalisation is the sociologist Robertson. For Robertson (1992, p. 8), globalisation refers 'both to the compression of the world and the...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole', a definition that is clearly distinct from the market-centred perspective of the economist. From the...