Globalization wields powerful influence over societies and cultures. Business travelers and tourists both observe and distribute new ideas. New ideas, interactions, foods and products are tried, then embraced or discarded. With the internet or satellite television, films, publications, photographs, news reports and cartoons can travel instantly, entertaining or angering audiences around the globe. With social media like Facebook or Twitter, individuals offer news and own instant pronouncements on trends. Whether slowly through immigration or immediately online, these connections bring about some convergence of norms on fashion to human rights while also provoking challenges from traditionalists. A global society has emerged, and it’s tightly linked.

Riots, Language and Britain’s Globalized Underclass

London dialect exposes odd couple – Britain’s accelerating globalization and decreasing social mobility
Garry Robson
December 22, 2011

A Global Consensus to Rise and Occupy

Protesters around the globe connect, lashing out at inequality, cronyism and dysfunctional governments
Laurence Brahm
December 15, 2011

The 19th-Century World-System

A new world system, shedding the imbalances of centrist liberalism, will emerge
Immanuel Wallerstein
October 31, 2011

Global Population of 10 Billion by 2100? – Not So Fast

With urbanization and education, global fertility rates could dip below replacement level by 2100
Joseph Chamie
October 26, 2011

Writing the Global Journey

Ghosh’s and Rushdie’s novels don’t mention “globalization,” but the process is understood well
Salil Tripathi
September 12, 2011

Globalizing Insurgency in Somalia

Amid dire poverty and famine, Somali-insurgency al-Shabab conducts transnational recruitment
Christopher Anzalone
August 23, 2011