How have sociologists explained the process of globalisation in the modern world?
To explain the process of Globalisation is not an easy task, as the process is multi layered and can be seen to affect different social and cultural groups in different ways (Lechner and Boli 2004). Sociologists, however, have reached a general consensus on what Globalisation as a phenomenon and process constitutes, and why it is appropriate to conceptualise it, and as such, allow it to be treated as a qualitatively different mode of social development. Sociological explanations of Globalisation tend to concentrate on two related areas of social change peculiar to the modern world, which in this essay is to be defined as the world post World War Two. The first of these areas is the institutional, socio-economic and technological developments that the world has witnessed in this period, and the second is the cultural, subjective or consciousness related effects upon individuals and previously distinct societies that these changes have wrought. The institutional changes that are viewed a
