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Globalization, the process of the increasing independence in societies on a world wide scale, this interdependence can take a variety of forms, but sociologist have focused mainly on the globalization of the economy and the globalization of culture. Globalization can be defined like most major sociological concepts in many ways; Malcolm Waters gives a fairly neutral definition of 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" (O'Donnell 1997) Today, distance is not an issue when it comes to sending something from one end of the world to another, people can speak to one another in seconds, no matter where in geographical terms they are. No longer people think regionally or locally, instead they think globally as anything around the world is at their fingertips, in an instance. Anthony Gidden's explains globalization in three...

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