Globalization

Ritzer, in one of his works, had defined globalization as “ a transplanetary process or set of processes involving growing multidirectional flows of increasingly liquid people, objects, places, and information and the structures they encounter and create that are barriers to or expedite those flows.” Apply this quote to the current global Covid-19 pandemic that we are experiencing: thinking of both the early stage of the pandemic, the vaccination development and distribution, and the current phase of people’s responses to it; how do the liquidity and structures Ritzer speaks about apply?

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