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Globalization The seminar presentation was a critical analysis of the first chapter in "Globalization" by M. Waters (1995). The first part of this essay will be a review of the content of the first chapter concluding with an analysis of Waters views. The main aim of this chapter has been to try and apply the relatively new theory of globalization to old sociological theories. The first part of the chapter focuses on trying to define globalization. Robertson (1992) informs us that globalization is a relatively recent theory, it was not recognised academically significant until the mid - 1980s. This book describes globalization as, "A social process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding." There are three theories as to when globalization began: The first is that globalization has been in process since the beginning of time and its affects...

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