The relationship between globalisation and national identity is puzzling. While some observers have found that globalisation reduces people’s identification with their nation, others have reached the opposite conclusion. This article explores this conundrum by examining the relationship between globalisation and people’s feelings towards national identity. Using data from the International Soci...

this exploratory study attempts to shed some light on the ethnocentric behaviours of young iranians in relation to the global consumer culture. it demonstrates why and how these individuals adhere to their own cultural resources and refrain from consuming the products or daily life practices of other cultures. the analysis of interpretive interviews with twelve participants in tehran and karaj ...

Capitalist globalisation has produced certain negative consequences for human resources, industrial democracy and humanity, in general. Globalisation is a powerful force that cannot be denied, however, conversely, it has also threatened life, in a broader sense. Globalisation was perceived by globalisers as a worldwide remedy for worldwide problems, but is viewed with great pessimism amongst pr...

There is no general consensus on the definition of globalisation. Put simply, it is a process of increasing connectivity, where ideas, capital, goods, services and people are transferred across country borders. This briefing paper discusses an aspect of economic globalisation – market access – and how this affects the rural poor. Despite all the criticisms lodged against globalisation, it is in...

From a social systems theory perspective, globalisation can be conceptualised as an evolutionary social process. By fusing systems theories, evolutionary theories, and organisation theories, globalisation becomes apparent as a historical social process, which encompasses the emergence and reproduction of social systems such as firms or other organisations within the wider process of the globali...

"Thus we arrive at today: a project of synthesis, an integral age at the leading edge...just now beginning with the dawn of the new millennium." ~ Ken Wilber In recent human history few topics could rival the amount of writing and diversified debate carried out in the name of globalisation. Globalisation is a topic that no voice seems to have a definitive word on, no author appears to forward t...

From a social systems theory perspective, globalisation can be conceptualised as an evolutionary social process. By fusing systems theories, evolutionary theories, and organisation theories, globalisation becomes apparent as a historical social process, which encompasses the emergence and reproduction of social systems such as firms or other organisations within the wider process of the globali...

Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a transnational ideology which legitimises them. In other words, an ideology to justify, on the one hand, the minimisation of the state’s role in the economy —which, in a market economy system implies a corresponding maximisation of the role of the market and private capital— and, on the othe...

Although the topic of globalisation has received considerable attention in many circles, it remains a phenomenon that we are still striving to understand. Not only can globalisation not be captured in a single measure or index, but its economic impacts are also difficult to isolate given the complexities in disentangling globalisation from other important structural changes that have occurred i...

Political leaders, the media, business people, trade union leaders and academics continually refer to how globalisation is impacting on our lives. Governments may at times argue that globalisation benefits us, and at others attribute to globalisation many of the major problems we currently face. What do ordinary people make of all this? We do not have a systematic account of their understanding...