page_title: Outline of globalization
section_title: Sociocultural globalization
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of globalization / Aspects of globalization / Sociocultural globalization
caption_attribution_description: English: Shakira at the Rock in Rio concert in 2008.
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the broad, interdisciplinary subject of globalization:
  Globalization – processes of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities. Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, sociocultural resources, and the natural environment.
context_section_description: All aspects of globalization are essentially sociocultural in nature. Here, aspects of the globalization of culture are detailed, including cultural diversity, cultural homogenization and its backlash, as well as multiculturalism, multilingualism, global civics, world governance and other political developments and social movements related to globalization.
  Anti-globalization
  Criticisms of globalization
  Cultural globalization
  Cultural appropriation
  Cultural diversity
  Cultural homogenization
  Interculturalism
  Multiculturalism
  Time–space compression
  Democratization of technology
  Economic liberalism
  Endangered languages
  Global civics
  Global elite
  Global digital divide
  Global health
  Global inequality (category)
  International inequality
  Global politics
  Global justice
  International law
  International human rights law
  World democracy
  World government
  Consumer movement
  Occupy movement
  Supranational union
  Transnationalism
  Global village
  Globalism
  International development
  International education
  International organization
  Internet
  World Wide Web
  Multilingualism
  Pizza effect
  Race to the bottom
  Social web
  Transformation of culture
  Transnational cinema
  Transnational organized crime
  Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  Westernization
  World Englishes
  World Music Awards
  World population
  World Values Survey
caption: Shakira, a Colombian multilingual singer-songwriter, playing outside her home country.
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