Name: Bobiles, Edwin D.B.

Subject: SOCSCI 1105

Section: BSBA HRDM 3-2 Activity: Definition of Globalization

“The literature stemming from the debate on globalization has grown

in the last decade beyond any individual’s capability of extracting a
workable definition of the concept. In a sense, the meaning of the
concept is self-evident, in another, it is vague and obscure as it
reaches wide and constantly shifting. Perhaps, more than any other
concept globalization is the debate about it.”

Cesare Poppi, “wider Horizons with Larger Details: Subjectivity, Ethnicity and
Globalization”, in Alan Scott(ed.), The Limits of Globalization: Cases and Arguments
(London: Routledge, 1997) p.285

The challenge of defining the concept and word globalization is not going to disappear or

lose importance anytime soon. That’s why I can’t help but agree with how the Sociologist Cesare

Poppi defines this term by telling us that: globalization is a debate, and the debate is

globalization. At the beginning of our class after the orientation, you asked us to answer some

questions. Included in that question is how would we define globalization in one word. There is

no doubt that “economy” is the word I’ve written, thinking that globalization speeds up the

movement of goods, services, capital, or technology of each country that can help the country’s

economy. In certain situations, my classmate can agree, disagree, or have their definition. Not

like when you ask everyone to define the human resources in one-word people would be certain

to correspond. That’s why when the discussion has started, it becomes unclear to me how should

I define globalization as it suggests a borderless definition. It is either believing how the

rejectionist defines globalization or skeptics even the modifiers. But one thing I realize the

definition is tending to be multifaceted and complex that is constantly changing with the

developing human society. That’s why it would continue to arouse authors to have a debate in a

clear definition of globalization. The matter of defining globalization can be deemed useless
because of its shifting nature, its ambiguity, its influence from the perspective from which one’s

views it. But the attempt to define globalization feels like an everlasting and futile task does

contribute to the debate and does stimulate discussion about globalization.