- Are you confused by academic jargon? - Do you know your `discourse' from your `dialectic'? - Can you tell the difference between `anomie' and `alienation'? The Social Science Jargon Buster tackles the most confusing concepts in the social sciences, brea

Globalization

Core definition

Process by which economic, political, cultural and environmental systems across the globe increasingly become, and are accepted as, part of an integrated and interdependent whole system.

Longer explanation

Not long ago, exploring far away lands was left to adventurers and anthropologists who travelled for months on end to discover natives who ate ...

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