An Introduction to the Theoretical Perspectives of Globalisation

The word globalization has become one of the most widely used terms in the contemporary society in many of the academic fields. The multidisciplinary nature of the studies in globalisation has provided opportunities to generate knowledge in many aspects of spheres including economics, politics, media, geography and sociology. As results, there are number of concepts, ideas and theories that have been formulated around it. The same notion of multidisciplinary nature and as well as vast areas of coverage of the term, there is no uniformity in explaining what the globalization is, among the scholars. Therefore, this paper has made an attempt to summarise key definitions and theories of globalization in order to provide holistic, but simplistic understanding about the globalization and related theories of it. The paper is entirely based on secondary sources of data drawn from various scholars, and interpretations of the Author more specifically from the sociological points of view. The paper has concluded with that the globalization is a process which has been accelerated with attempted interventions of the western world to expand the capitalist economy and as well as the capitalist culture.

An Introduction to the Theoretical Perspectives of Globalisation