The animosity surrounding the debate on globalization requires that a holistic approach be adopted when analyzing this issue. Globalization is a prismatic phenomenon, which should be looked at in all its manifestations and from different angles. What is globalization? What accounts for the unequal distribution of globalization effects around the world? What is the impact of globalization on the...

this paper consists of two parts. the first section describes the index and process of globalization and presents kof and a.t. kearney models and index. it also shows the situation of iran in the process of globalization. the results of this section indicate that based on the above mentioned index, iran does not have a good situation in the globalization process (iran’s position is the lowest a...

Along with the rise in research on globalization, the concept of globalization has become a subject to a more critical scrutiny. While majority agree that it represents a serious challenge to the state-centrist assumptions of most previous social science, doubts about its newness, inevitability and epoch-making qualities are also being raised. Others argue that the globalization literature neg...

Good health is crucial for human and economic development. In particular poor health in childhood seems to be of utmost concern since it causes irreversible damage and have implications later in life. Recent research suggests globalization is a strong force affecting adult and child health outcomes. Yet, there is much unexplained variation with respect to the globalization effect on child healt...

In this paper we present two composite indices of globalization. The first one is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine and the second one is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate which countries have become most global and show how globalization has developed over time. The indices are composed of four components: economic integration, personal contact, technology an...

A sociology of globalization has come into existence in recent years as both an umbrella for a number of traditional sub-fields and also as a theoretical enterprise. Social scientists have attempted to theorize worldwide social transformations in recent decades and to conceive of a global system with its own emergent properties. Among the most widely-cited scholars in this emerging field is Sas...

Sport, in particular football, constitutes one of the most dynamic, sociologically illuminating domains of globalization. This paper examines the globalization of football with particular reference to Robertson's theorizations of global processes. We examine football's cultural globalization through the concept of 'glocalization', which highlights the interdependence of local and global process...

a r t i c l e i n f o Global slack hypothesis Inflation expectations Openness Small open economy DSGE model Korea This paper studies the implications of globalization for the dynamics of macroeconomic variables over the business cycle for a small open trade-dependent economy, such as South Korea. We study the impact of globalization through the lens of a structural model. Globalization is model...

even though some scholars do not agree on the direct link between globalization and translation, most others believe that the process of globalization has influenced translation practices over time. the present research, thus, endeavors to probe into the nature of these impacts and shed some light on the manifestations of globalization trend in the translations of literary texts. to this aim, t...

In this paper we present two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate which countries have become most globalized and show how globalization has developed over time. The indices are composed of four components: economic integration, personal contact, technology and po...