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Sociological dimension of economic globalization: world trends and Ukrainian realities

First part. Theoretical and empirical dimensions of economic globalization

stmm. 2020 (3): 51-79

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2020.03.051

TETIANA PETRUSHYNA, Doctor of Sciences in Sociology, Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Head of the Department of Economic Sociology, Institute of Sociology, NAS of Ukraine (12, Shovkovychna St., Kyiv, 01021)

tanya.petrushina@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3750-9604

ANATOLII ARSEIENKO, Candidate of Sciences in History, Leading Research Fellow at the Department of Economic Sociology, Institute of Sociology, NAS of Ukraine (12, Shovkovychna St., Kyiv, 01021)

anatoliy.arseenko@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3137-6487

Globalization remains the most common and quite controversial concept in modern social discourse. Within the theoretical and conceptual sociological dimension, the authors analyzed the essence of economic globalization (EG) as its defining type. They studied globalization as an objective process (first of all, the international division of labour) and the subjective process of forming a global capitalist economy under the auspices of leading Western countries, supranational financial and economic institutions (primarily the World Bank and the IMF), TNCs. As the main drivers of globalization, they determine its forms and directions in the interests of the "core" of global capitalism. Within the empirical sociological dimension of EG (which involves measuring the various manifestations of the EG process itself as well as its social consequences), the authors paid particular attention to the analysis of social changes in Ukrainian society. The capitalization of the Ukrainian economy, which took place in parallel with Ukraine’s entry into the global economic space, led to degradation of the national economy, significant deterioration of living standards of most citizens, creation of anti-social state with the systemic crisis as its main attribute. To prove these conclusions, the authors analyzed the dynamics of the principal macroeconomic and sociological indicators of Ukrainian society’s life for almost 30 years of drift to the roadside of the global capitalist world, based on the study of numerous domestic and foreign sources. The authors focused on the research of eight critical areas of social changes: deindustrialization of the economy, global competitiveness and innovation, GDP dynamics, employment, income and welfare of the population, socioeconomic inequality, debt dependence and degradation of Ukrainian science. The analysis shows the need to abandon the neoliberal paradigm of development and search for the alternative, more fair models of EG.

Key words: economic globalization, drivers of economic globalization, sociological dimension of globalization, social changes, Ukrainian society

Publication in: ukr | rus

References

Apostoaiae, M.C. (2011). Measuring Economic Globalization — Facts and Figures. In: The Annals of The “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava. Fascicle of The Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, 2 (14), 99–109. https://doi.org/10.18662/lumproc/ncoe4.0.2020/36

Arseenko, A.G., Maliuk, A.N., Tolstykh, N.V. (2011). Challenges of Globalization and Ukraine. [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: Institute of Sociology, NAS of Ukraine. [= Арсеенко 2011].

Beck, U. What is Globalization? (2001). [In Russian]. Moscow: Progress–Tradition. [= Бек 2001].

Bockman, J. (2015). Socialist Globalization against Capitalist Neocolonialism: The Economic Ideas behind the New International Economic Order. Humanity, Spring, 109–128. https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2015.0010

Case, A., Deaton, A. (2020). Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Сavanagh, J., Mander, J. (Eds.) (2004). Alternatives to Economic Globalization [A Better World Is Possible]. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

CIA. The World Factbook (2016). Retrieved from: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...

Cohen, R., Kennedy, P. (2000). Global Sociology. New York: New York University Press.

Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1997). London: Harper Collins Publishers.

Dearden, N. (2020). Don’t Delay Developing World Debt – Cancel It. Retrieved from: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/27/dont...

Deliagin, M. G. (2019). The End of Era: Caution: the doors are opening! Vol. 1: General Theory of Globalization. [In Russian]. Moscow: IPROG, Book World. [= Делягин 2019].

Development and Globalization: Facts and Figure. UNCTAD (2016). Retrieved from: https://stats.unctad.org/Dgff2016/DGFF2016.pdf

Dobrenkov, V.I. (2018). Globalization: Entity, Manifestations, and Social Consequences. [In Russian]. Moscow: Akademicheskii prospect. [= Добреньков 2018].

Dobrenkov, V.I., Rakhmanov, A.B. (2014). The Sociology of Globalization. [In Russian]. Moscow: Academic Prospect. [= Добреньков 2014].

Dreher, A., Gaston, N., Martens, P. (2008). Measuring Globalisation. Gauging Its Consequences. S.l.: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-74069-0

Eurobarometer standard 69. 2. The Europeans and globalisation (2008). Retrieved from: https://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion...

Gygli, S., Haelg, F., Potrafke, N., Sturm, J.-E. (2019). The KOF Globalisation Index – revisited. The Review of International Organizations, 14, 543–574. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-019-09344-2

Hobsbawn, E. (2013). Introduction. In: K. Marx, F. Engels, The Manifest of Communist Party (pp. 6–28). [In Russian]. Moscow: Common place. [= Хобсбаум 2013].

International Trade Union Confederation Global Poll (2017). Retrieved from: file:///C:/Users/PC/Downloads/global_poll_en_print%20(2).pdf

Johnson, J. (2019). World’s 500 Richest People Gained $1.2 Trillion in Wealth in 2019: Analysis. Retrieved from: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/27/world...

Kentikelenis, A.E., Babb, S. (2019). The Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norms Substitutions and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change. American Journal of Sociology, 124 (6), 1720–1762. https://doi.org/10.1086/702900

KOF Globalisation Index (s.a.). Retreaved from: https://kof.ethz.ch/en/forecasts-and-indicators/in...

Koretskii, V.A., Khalikov, M.S. (2017). The Sociology of Global Processes. [In Russian]. Moscow: Akademicheskii prospect. [= Корецкий 2017].

Mann, M. (2018). The Sources of Social Power. Vol.: 4. Globalizations, 1945–2011. [In Russian]. Moscow: Dielo. [= Манн 2018].

Marx, K., Engels, F. (1955). Works (Vol. 4)_._ Moscow: Gospolitizdat. [= Маркс 1955].

Measuring Globalisation: OECD Economic Globalisation Indicators (2010). https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264084360-sum-en

Measuring Globalisation: OECD Handbook on Economic Globalisation Indicators (2005). https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264108103-en

Metcalf, T., Witzig, J. (2019). World’s Richest Gain $1.2 Trillion in 2019 as Jeff Bezos Retains Crown. Retrieved from: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-27...

Modern Explanatory Dictionary of Ukrainian Language: 100 000 words (2009). [In Ukrainian]. Kharkiv: Shkola. [= Сучасний тлумачний словник 2009].

Mullard, M. (2004). The Politics of Globalization and Polarisation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Nester, W.R. (2010). Globalization, Wealth, and Power in the Twenty-first Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Raab, М. et al. (2008). GlobalIndex. A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement. International Sociology, 23 (4), 596–631. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580908090729

Reich, R. (2019a). How Trump has betrayed the working class. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec...

Reich, R. (2019b). Trump Has One Glaring Weakness. Retrieved from: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/robert-reich-tru...

Romanoff, L. (2019). The Richest Country’s Empty Plates. 50 Million Hungry Americans. Retrieved from: https://www.globalresearch.ca/richest-country-empt...

Schaeffer, R. (2003). Understanding Globalization. The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Stiglitz, J.E., Sen, A., Fitoussi, J.-P. (2009). Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. Paris: Sorbonne.

Taliano, M. (2020). Permanent War and Poverty or Widespread Truth Awareness? Retrieved from: https://www.globalresearch.ca/permanent-war-povert...

Therborn, G. (2015). The World: A Beginner’s Guide. [In Russian]. Moscow: Publishing House of High School of Economics. [= Терборн 2015].

Tonkiss, F. (2006). Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalization, production, inequality. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Tonkiss, F. (2012). Economic globalization. In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization / Ed. by G. Ritzer (pp. 604–611). S.l.: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog163

Trosic, S.J. (2016). Economic globalization – advantages and disadvantages: The place of Serbia and Japan in the globalized world. In: Globalized World: Advantage or Disadvantage (pp. 108–122). Belgrade: Institute of International Politics and Economics; Kyoto: Global Resource Management, Doshisha University; Novi Sad: Mala knjiga.

Vladimirov, A.A., Zelenov, L.A., Stepanov, E.I. (2010). Modern Globalization. State and Perspectives. [In Russian]. Moscow: LENAND. [= Владимиров 2010].

Weizsacker, E.U. von, Wijkman, A. Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet. A Report to the Club of Rome (2019). [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: Summit–Knyha. [= Вайцзекер 2019].

Received 24.07.2020

Sociological dimension of economic globalization: world trends and Ukrainian realities

First part. Theoretical and empirical dimensions of economic globalization

stmm. 2020 (3): 51-79

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2020.03.051

TETIANA PETRUSHYNA, Doctor of Sciences in Sociology, Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Head of the Department of Economic Sociology, Institute of Sociology, NAS of Ukraine (12, Shovkovychna St., Kyiv, 01021)

tanya.petrushina@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3750-9604

ANATOLII ARSEIENKO, Candidate of Sciences in History, Leading Research Fellow at the Department of Economic Sociology, Institute of Sociology, NAS of Ukraine (12, Shovkovychna St., Kyiv, 01021)

anatoliy.arseenko@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3137-6487

Globalization remains the most common and quite controversial concept in modern social discourse. Within the theoretical and conceptual sociological dimension, the authors analyzed the essence of economic globalization (EG) as its defining type. They studied globalization as an objective process (first of all, the international division of labour) and the subjective process of forming a global capitalist economy under the auspices of leading Western countries, supranational financial and economic institutions (primarily the World Bank and the IMF), TNCs. As the main drivers of globalization, they determine its forms and directions in the interests of the "core" of global capitalism. Within the empirical sociological dimension of EG (which involves measuring the various manifestations of the EG process itself as well as its social consequences), the authors paid particular attention to the analysis of social changes in Ukrainian society. The capitalization of the Ukrainian economy, which took place in parallel with Ukraine’s entry into the global economic space, led to degradation of the national economy, significant deterioration of living standards of most citizens, creation of anti-social state with the systemic crisis as its main attribute. To prove these conclusions, the authors analyzed the dynamics of the principal macroeconomic and sociological indicators of Ukrainian society’s life for almost 30 years of drift to the roadside of the global capitalist world, based on the study of numerous domestic and foreign sources. The authors focused on the research of eight critical areas of social changes: deindustrialization of the economy, global competitiveness and innovation, GDP dynamics, employment, income and welfare of the population, socioeconomic inequality, debt dependence and degradation of Ukrainian science. The analysis shows the need to abandon the neoliberal paradigm of development and search for the alternative, more fair models of EG.

Key words: economic globalization, drivers of economic globalization, sociological dimension of globalization, social changes, Ukrainian society

Publication in: ukr | rus

References

Apostoaiae, M.C. (2011). Measuring Economic Globalization — Facts and Figures. In: The Annals of The “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava. Fascicle of The Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, 2 (14), 99–109. https://doi.org/10.18662/lumproc/ncoe4.0.2020/36

Arseenko, A.G., Maliuk, A.N., Tolstykh, N.V. (2011). Challenges of Globalization and Ukraine. [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: Institute of Sociology, NAS of Ukraine. [= Арсеенко 2011].

Beck, U. What is Globalization? (2001). [In Russian]. Moscow: Progress–Tradition. [= Бек 2001].

Bockman, J. (2015). Socialist Globalization against Capitalist Neocolonialism: The Economic Ideas behind the New International Economic Order. Humanity, Spring, 109–128. https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2015.0010

Case, A., Deaton, A. (2020). Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Сavanagh, J., Mander, J. (Eds.) (2004). Alternatives to Economic Globalization [A Better World Is Possible]. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

CIA. The World Factbook (2016). Retrieved from: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...

Cohen, R., Kennedy, P. (2000). Global Sociology. New York: New York University Press.

Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1997). London: Harper Collins Publishers.

Dearden, N. (2020). Don’t Delay Developing World Debt – Cancel It. Retrieved from: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/27/dont...

Deliagin, M. G. (2019). The End of Era: Caution: the doors are opening! Vol. 1: General Theory of Globalization. [In Russian]. Moscow: IPROG, Book World. [= Делягин 2019].

Development and Globalization: Facts and Figure. UNCTAD (2016). Retrieved from: https://stats.unctad.org/Dgff2016/DGFF2016.pdf

Dobrenkov, V.I. (2018). Globalization: Entity, Manifestations, and Social Consequences. [In Russian]. Moscow: Akademicheskii prospect. [= Добреньков 2018].

Dobrenkov, V.I., Rakhmanov, A.B. (2014). The Sociology of Globalization. [In Russian]. Moscow: Academic Prospect. [= Добреньков 2014].

Dreher, A., Gaston, N., Martens, P. (2008). Measuring Globalisation. Gauging Its Consequences. S.l.: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-74069-0

Eurobarometer standard 69. 2. The Europeans and globalisation (2008). Retrieved from: https://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion...

Gygli, S., Haelg, F., Potrafke, N., Sturm, J.-E. (2019). The KOF Globalisation Index – revisited. The Review of International Organizations, 14, 543–574. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-019-09344-2

Hobsbawn, E. (2013). Introduction. In: K. Marx, F. Engels, The Manifest of Communist Party (pp. 6–28). [In Russian]. Moscow: Common place. [= Хобсбаум 2013].

International Trade Union Confederation Global Poll (2017). Retrieved from: file:///C:/Users/PC/Downloads/global_poll_en_print%20(2).pdf

Johnson, J. (2019). World’s 500 Richest People Gained $1.2 Trillion in Wealth in 2019: Analysis. Retrieved from: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/27/world...

Kentikelenis, A.E., Babb, S. (2019). The Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norms Substitutions and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change. American Journal of Sociology, 124 (6), 1720–1762. https://doi.org/10.1086/702900

KOF Globalisation Index (s.a.). Retreaved from: https://kof.ethz.ch/en/forecasts-and-indicators/in...

Koretskii, V.A., Khalikov, M.S. (2017). The Sociology of Global Processes. [In Russian]. Moscow: Akademicheskii prospect. [= Корецкий 2017].

Mann, M. (2018). The Sources of Social Power. Vol.: 4. Globalizations, 1945–2011. [In Russian]. Moscow: Dielo. [= Манн 2018].

Marx, K., Engels, F. (1955). Works (Vol. 4)_._ Moscow: Gospolitizdat. [= Маркс 1955].

Measuring Globalisation: OECD Economic Globalisation Indicators (2010). https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264084360-sum-en

Measuring Globalisation: OECD Handbook on Economic Globalisation Indicators (2005). https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264108103-en

Metcalf, T., Witzig, J. (2019). World’s Richest Gain $1.2 Trillion in 2019 as Jeff Bezos Retains Crown. Retrieved from: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-27...

Modern Explanatory Dictionary of Ukrainian Language: 100 000 words (2009). [In Ukrainian]. Kharkiv: Shkola. [= Сучасний тлумачний словник 2009].

Mullard, M. (2004). The Politics of Globalization and Polarisation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Nester, W.R. (2010). Globalization, Wealth, and Power in the Twenty-first Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Raab, М. et al. (2008). GlobalIndex. A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement. International Sociology, 23 (4), 596–631. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580908090729

Reich, R. (2019a). How Trump has betrayed the working class. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec...

Reich, R. (2019b). Trump Has One Glaring Weakness. Retrieved from: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/robert-reich-tru...

Romanoff, L. (2019). The Richest Country’s Empty Plates. 50 Million Hungry Americans. Retrieved from: https://www.globalresearch.ca/richest-country-empt...

Schaeffer, R. (2003). Understanding Globalization. The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Stiglitz, J.E., Sen, A., Fitoussi, J.-P. (2009). Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. Paris: Sorbonne.

Taliano, M. (2020). Permanent War and Poverty or Widespread Truth Awareness? Retrieved from: https://www.globalresearch.ca/permanent-war-povert...

Therborn, G. (2015). The World: A Beginner’s Guide. [In Russian]. Moscow: Publishing House of High School of Economics. [= Терборн 2015].

Tonkiss, F. (2006). Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalization, production, inequality. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Tonkiss, F. (2012). Economic globalization. In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization / Ed. by G. Ritzer (pp. 604–611). S.l.: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog163

Trosic, S.J. (2016). Economic globalization – advantages and disadvantages: The place of Serbia and Japan in the globalized world. In: Globalized World: Advantage or Disadvantage (pp. 108–122). Belgrade: Institute of International Politics and Economics; Kyoto: Global Resource Management, Doshisha University; Novi Sad: Mala knjiga.

Vladimirov, A.A., Zelenov, L.A., Stepanov, E.I. (2010). Modern Globalization. State and Perspectives. [In Russian]. Moscow: LENAND. [= Владимиров 2010].

Weizsacker, E.U. von, Wijkman, A. Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet. A Report to the Club of Rome (2019). [In Ukrainian]. Kyiv: Summit–Knyha. [= Вайцзекер 2019].

Received 24.07.2020

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