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...and industrialisation -- are precisely the means by which 'globalisation as a concept comes to refer both to the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole' [7992: 8]. Robertson is nevertheless correct in identifying the inability to explain globalisation...

...globalization in cultural terms is developed by Robertson (1992). He defines globalization as: 'both the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole' (1992: 8). The notion of global compression bears some similarity to Wallerstein. It refers to an increasing...

...resurface in the current debate about globalization. Robertson (1992: 8), who defines globalization as 'the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole', points to four key features of globalization: ( 1 ) Legal conventions. This refers to the growth of...

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...of peripheral societies on the receiving end can no longer be sustained. GLOBALISATION OF THE MEDIA Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole (Robertson 1992, p.8). The term 'globalisation' is difficult to escape; it has become almost a cliche...

...(respectively) these objective and subjective processes that he is referring to when Robertson claims that, 'Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole' (1992: 8). Thus, the world is being compressed through the electronic overcoming of distance and through...

...significance of globalization to social thought. The concept of globalization, Robertson (1992: 8) notes, refers "both to the compression of the world and the...intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole." Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it has accelerated in the twentieth century. And, citing...

...actuality nor a historical possibility. (Saurin. 1995:257) I will return to this theme later. In short, 'globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world' (Robertson, 1992: 8). This compression is normally accounted for through...

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