Global interactions

Culture

commodities

Flows and exchanges

Socio cultural exchanges

Economic interactions

Environmental flows

• Two way processes where culture and commodities are adopted, adapted or resisted by societies.

Seven compulsory topics

1. Measuring global interactions 2. Converging space – the shrinking world 3. Economic interactions and flows 4. Environmental change 5. Socio cultural exchanges 6. Political outcomes

The exam

• Paper 3 (1 hour)• Syllabus content: Higher level extension• Assessment objectives 1–4• Students answer one of three essay questions.• (25 marks)• 20%

Global InteractionsWhat do you think the term global interactions means?

Global interaction is a two-way process where cultural traits and commodities may be adopted, adapted or resisted by

societies.

The focus of our learning in this unit…

1. Measuring global interactions

• Define globalisation using the next images

• Refer to the syllabus – what is the IB definition? How does it differ from yours?

• How is the world economically, socially, politically, culturally global?

Discuss…What is globalisation?

Globalisation = The growing interdependence of countries through the increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services and of international capital flows, and through the more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology.

Transnational corporations (TNCs)Trade

AidForeign investment

LabourInformation transfer

Compare the two

images by referring

to each of these

terms. Remember,

the title of the topic.

Photo EditorYour Task

You are a photo editor for Ms Topping’s IB Geography wikispace - you need to choose images that illustrate our definition of globalisation.

Try and find one image that illustrates each of the following:

• Growing interdependence of countries• Increasing volume of cross-border transactions• Variety of cross-border transactions• Increasing volume of international capital flows• Widespread diffusion of technology

Globalisation = The growing interdependence of countries through the increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services and of international capital flows, and through the more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology.

Listen to the following radio lecture and make notes in the relevant column.

Afterwards, we will highlight our points according to the 5 key areas of our learning.

Is the world really shrinking? - Radio LectureIs the world really shrinking? It depends where you're looking from, says Doreen Massey in

her Open University Radio Lecture

Positive aspects of globalisation Negative aspects of globalisation

Construct a table that looks like this…

Is globalisation good or evil?

Home Learning

Start a Word Bank and in it, explain what the following terms / words / acronyms mean:

• Income Gap• Protectionist Measures• Free Market• Multinational Corporations• Sweatshop Labour• Multilateral Organisations• WTO• IMF• World Bank