Click on the questions below for their answers. Globalisation is the intensification of world-wide social relationships which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by distant events and, in turn, distant events are shaped by local happenings. It is a process which has led to the reduction of geographical, spatial, and temporal factors as constraints to the development of society. It has resulted in an increased perception of the world as a whole, and a readjustment of societal thought and action away from national, and towards international and global spheres. Globalisation can be considered as the consequence of modernity.
Globalisation has economic, political, and cultural aspects.
The modern state is not purely defined by its economic base but by the fact that it is a nation-state. The role of the nation-state, its political position, and its evolution are all questioned by globalisation. The realignment of thinking and the transnational relationships globalisation creates, affects the way nation-states interact with each other, altering the dynamics of identity, international relations, and world affairs. The global society is cosmopolitan, but its development is emerging from a mixture of economic, technological and cultural imperatives. Institutions, such as the nation, family, work, tradition, nature, appear as before, but although the outer shell remains, inside all is different and they have become 'shell institutions'.