Study guide and discussion questions for the globalization lecture on the internet by Anthony Giddens. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week for the online class).

Study guide/discussion questions:

Discuss the skeptics and the hyperglobalizers. What is Giddens’s position?

What is the weightless economy?

Discuss the communications revolution.

What does Giddens mean when he says that globalization pushes up, down and sideways?

How does globalization affect our personal lives?

What does Giddens mean when he says that globalization is much more decentered?

Compare the power that nation states have with the power that corporations have.

What is your assessment of Giddens's analysis?