Reasons:
- demographic changes (population growth, increasing life expectancy, etc.);
- natural (natural: floods, earthquakes, drought, etc.; anthropogenic: pollution, global warming, etc.);
- technology (automation, use of computers);
- in the field of culture (scientific discoveries, new beliefs and values, etc.).
Under their influence there is a change:
a) composition of the population;
b) ways of behavior;
C) social structure;
g) culture.
Globalization means not only the ubiquity but also the interrelatedness of socio-cultural, economic, political and other relations.
Due to the wide development of microelectronics, computerization, development of mass media and information, the Internet, division of labor and specialization of humanity is United into a single socio-cultural integrity. Dramatically increased influence of TNCs. The existence of a global integrity dictates the requirements to mankind in General and individuals. The higher the level of technological production, the higher must be the degree of development of the person.
In the modern era of significantly increased global unity of mankind, appearing as a single global system, where all parts are closely interrelated and interdependent.
The process of globalization:
- expansion of activities and the worldwide expansion of transnational corporations;
- the existence of supranational political-economic-social actors (UN, NATO, EU, etc.) that have a huge impact on the life of the countries;
- the formation of a single financial market;
- the formation of the complex economic relationships of regions;
the increase in international migration;
- "Americanization" and "Westernization" of culture;
- formation etnologicheskogo thinking;
- increase of contacts of representatives of various countries, cultures, nationalities, etc. thanks to the Internet, TV, radio;
- the ubiquity of English as a global.
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