EIRP Proceedings, Vol 8 (2013)

Abstract

The globalization phenomenon represents a timely experience of our world. Due to the technological, cultural, economic, social, political, military, and other, progress, there is the perception that some phenomena in one part of the world have a global impact, not only a strictly local or regional one. Theoretical models both in the Anglo-Saxon space and in the French one consider that four main coordinates may be described in the framework of globalization: economic, political, social, and cultural. The nation-state becomes a concept which has to be reevaluated in the present context of globalization. We refrained from considering the process of globalization in a strictly determinist manner. According to Giddens, we shall be able to consider globalization much more lucratively for our theoretical endeavor in a multicausal, dialectic logic, as we shall include contradictory concepts in the first instance, in a more general framework. We shall consider that the difference among the theorists of globalization may be understood if we permanently keep in sight the difference between a monocausal logic and a multicausal one. The most lucrative, for our endeavor, is to place ourselves in a multicausal intelligibilization horizon, and this because we shall consider that the four main coordinates: economic, political, social, and cultural make a differentiated conceptual universe in the first instance, yet perfectly harmonized in the semantic universe of the concept of globalization.