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"Philosophy of Education"

2010 year, number 2

GLOBALIZATION AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGIN AND THE FUNCTIONS

S. V. Kamashev
Keywords: globalization processes, the globalization concept, the commodity market, the world development, civilizational approach, the world system analysis
Pages: 37-43

Abstract

In the article, there is traced the origin of the process of globalization, which is significant in modern conditions and symbolizes the planet-wide character of certain processes. The author considers the approaches of the scientists who tried to justify the necessity of a uniform system of social, economic, political, cultural and other communications, interactions and relations on various stages of the society development. The conclusion is made that till a certain time, the presence of numerous theories did not lead to formation of an independent concept, whose main topic would be the research of formation of the global social communications which are the reality of modern world and form objectively caused but  factor of the development of the world civilization of the XXI-st century.