COCTA SESSION 2, Tuesday, July 28, 14:00 - 16:00

ROUNDTABLE ON CONCEPTS OF GLOBALIZATION

ABSTRACT: "Globalization" has become increasingly popular as a term usedto talk about a wide range of fundamental transformations now taking place throughout the world. Increasingly, we are able to think of all our planet's residents as members of a single "society" subject to various modes of sociological analysis. In this process, the word has acquired a multiplicity of meanings and, consequently, is used by different authors to refer to different things. Following the Onomantic perspective developed by COCTA, we seek to identify each of the important concepts that can be represented by this word and either discover or propose a term that will designate it as precisely as possible. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire was circulated to all ISA members inviting those who have used "globalization" as a key term in their writings to submit a short text describing the concept they have in mind. These concepts were cumulated and posted on a Web Page where they were subjected to conceptual analysis, leading to the identification of a series of concepts that were described, posted on the Internet in systematic order, and subjected to further analysis by reference to the texts. Interested participants in this process have been invited to join the roundtable to talk about our findings and to propose further revisions leading, we hope, to the production of a conceptual glossary that can be widely used by sociologists interested in using the concepts of globalization. For further information, see Globalization Concepts Various linked documents can be reached by clicking on its buttons. No papers will be presented, but the discourse will focus on a set of questions presented as an agenda based on the document which, as continuously revised, is already available at the above URL.

Chair: Henry Teune, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215, <hteune@sas.upenn.edu>,

Participants:

Gary Boyd, Professor of Education (Educational Technology Graduate Programme)Concordia University, 1455 DeMaisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec Canada H3G 1M8. <boydg@vax2.concordia.ca> tel.(514)848-3459,fax(514)848-4520. homepage <http://alcor.concordia.ca/~boydg/drboyd.html>

Christopher CHASE-DUNN, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins Univ,Baltimore, MD 21218, USA, fax: 1-410-5167590, e-mail: chriscd@jhu.edu)

Sonia M. Cuales, Chief, Social Development Unit, United Nations ECLAC, Subregional Office for the Caribbean, P.O.Box 1113, or CHIC Building, 63 Park Street, 3rd Floor, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago;
tel: (868) 6235428, ext. 483; fax: (868) 6238485; E-mail: <scuales@eclacpos.org>,

Jan Currie, Associate Professor, School of Education, Murdoch University,Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia. Phone: 61 8 9 360 2377 (W); 61 8 9 337 9152(H)Fax: 61 8 9 360 6296; E-mail: <currie@central.murdoch.edu.au>,

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel Coordinator, IGSP Center for Business and Economic Development, Auburn University, Montgomery, P.O. Box 244023 Montgomery, AL 36124-4023 E-mail: <cissisa@ibm.net>,

Barry Gills, Dept. of Politics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne,Newcastle upon Tyne UK NE1 7RUfax: 44 0191 222 5069; tel: 44 0191 222 7742; messages 5064; email: B.K.Gills@newcastle.ac.uk

Goldfrank Wally, College Eight--Sociology Dept., UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Tel:408-459-2543; Fax: 408-459-3516, E-mail: <wally@cats.ucsc.edu>,

Wolf Heydebrand Department of Sociology/Institute for Law & Society, New York University, 269 Mercer #411, New York NY 10003; Tel: 212-998-8354 FAX: 212- 995-4140, email: <heydebrand@SOCIOLOGY1.SOC.NYU.EDU>,

Dalibor Misina, University of Alberta, Department of Sociology, EdmontonAB T6G 0X9 CANADA e-mail: <dmisina@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>

Zdravko Mlinar Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, P.O.Box 2547, Ljubljana, Slovenia
fax: 386 61 168 5330; e-mail <zdravko.mlinar@uni-lj.si>,

Fred W. Riggs, Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department, University of Hawaii, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, U.S.A. Phone: (808) 956-8123; Fax: (808) 956-6877; e-mail: FREDR@HAWAII.EDU WebPage: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~fredr/

Tony Spybey, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Staffordshire University College, Road Stoke-on-Trent Staffs. ST4 2DE UKPhone: 01782 294645/294624; International code: +44 1782 Fax: 01782 294856E-mail: <t.spybey@staffs.ac.uk>

Eduardo Viola, Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Brasilia, C. P. 04359, Brasilia, DF 70919-970, Brazil. Fax: 55-61-3445684, Phone: 55-61-3442669 E-mail: <violaedu@nutecnet.com.br>

Barry Wellman, Professor of Sociology, Centre for Urban & Community Studies, Univ. of Toronto, 455 Spadina Ave., Toronto Canada M5S 2G8E-mail: <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> ; fax: +1-416-978-7162 Web: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/

Some relevant panels will be offered at the Local-Global thematic group sessions. For details write: Henry Teune They include

• Session 1: Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Local-Global Relations, chaired by Zdravko MLINAR
• Session 2: Empirical Approaches to the Study of Local-Global Relations Chaired by Henry TEUNE
• Session 3: Empirical Studies of Local-Global Relations (I) Chaired by: Krzysztof OSTROWSKI
• Session 4: Empirical Studies of Local-Global Relations (II) Chaired by Jane GRISCHENKO

An Ad Hoc Panel on "Globalization" has been organized by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Volker Bornschier, to be held from 16:30 - 18:30 on Tuesday and Thursday, (08/20 and 30) See Chase-Dunn .

The abstract for this session reads, in part: "During the late 1980s a new term entered popular discourse: globalization. Instead of clarifying issues of world development, the buzzword rather seemed to add confusion and misunderstandings. There are at least five different dimensions of globalization that need to be distinguished:

• - economic globalization
• - political globalization
• - common ecological constraints,
• - cultural values and institutions, and
• - globalization of communication.

Papers will examine the diverse phenomena of "globalization" and reflect on the sustainability of developments and the design of new (or strengthening of existing) institutions in order to shape a less polarized and more peaceful social world. How are the different aspects of globalization related to one another? What are the long-term trajectories of international integration? And what institutional structures may emerge in the future to cope with the recent high level of economic integration?

Available papers include the following -- Those starred (*) will not be presented. For details write Chase-Dunn

Session # 1: 4:30-6:30 PM Tuesday July 28

• John Markoff, "Globalization and the future of democracy"
• K.R. Lakshmy Devi and P.P. Pillai, "Globalization and international migration of women workers: the unforeseen challenges with special reference to the Indian immigrants in the Middle East"
• Michael W Nicholson Kristian S. Gleditsch "Globalization, Trade and Conflict"
• Roland Robertson, "The future of globalization as a buzzword, as a concept and as a cluster of empirical processes"
• Nikolai Genov, "Small societies in global trends: the new melting pot"
• *Volker Bornschier, University of Zurich "The Civilizational Project and Its Discontents: Toward a Viable Global Market Society?"
• *John Hartman "Convergence and Divergence in the World Economy"
• *Volodymyr Sudakov and Mykola Sakada " Globalization of Unemployment"

Session # 2: 4:30-6:30 PM Thursday July 30

• Val Moghadam, "Social-gender implications of economic globalization"
• Giovanni Arrighi "Globalization and the demise of the theory and practice of national development"
• Ranveig Gissinger & Nils Petter Gleditsch "GLOBALIZATION AND DOMESTIC VIOLENT CONFLICT"
• Nils Petter Gleditsch, Leslie Sklair "Competing conceptions of globalization"
• John URRY, "Citizenship and globalisation An analysis of the implications of globalisation for the classic notions of citizenship; and an argument that some kind of putative global citizenship may be developing."
• *Christopher Chase-Dunn, Yukio Kawano and Denis Nikitin "Trajectories of globalization"
• *Ihsan Sezal, "A cracked-mirror: conflicts and convergences in a globalized culture"
• *Supo Adedokun, "Liberalism and ideology of globalization"

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Updated: 19 July 1998

For details see Globalization Concepts