Globalisation Is A Myth Essay

Globalisation can be considered to have various definitions, however the fundamental concept of the term is generally regarded as the “process of becoming worldwide in scope or application, which results in increasing interdependency of nation-states”. Despite this concept being fairly obvious to some, sociologists and others alike argue over the substantiality of globalisation and whether in fact it actually exists. As a result, globalisation attracts both advocates and sceptics, with both sides of the argument generally ordaining their claims through their own definition of what globalisation is. This essay will assess the substantiality of these definitions and consequential viewpoints in order to address whether or not globalisation is in fact a myth. This essay argues that globalisation is not a myth, and when defined as a process can be seen in various sectors such as economics, culture and technology.

By choosing a specific definition of globalisation, one is also selecting how they wish to interpret it, and what points they wish to convey. For example, a western/modernisation influenced definition of globalisation leads to the view that globalisation is the economically and politically powerful West globalising the rest of

Perhaps it is that in contemporary times there has been acceleration in the advances of technology and communication that the concept of globalisation is brought to the forefront of attention, and hence is far more widely discussed. However, as this essay has defined, globalisation is not whether or not the world is globalised, but whether it is globalising. Clearly the aforementioned examples of economies, culture and technology becoming globalised, such as compression of space and time, is proof in itself that globalisation is indeed not a