Дослідження і теоретизування глобалізації: до історії питання

Abstract

Досліджено історію виникнення та формування дискурсу глобалізації, а також проаналізовано підходи до розуміння глобалізації. Зроблено висновок про відсутність у науці якоїсь єдиної загальної теорії глобалізації та висновок про наявність багатьох концепцій глобалізації, які по-різному тлумачать її суть, генезу, історію, структуру та логіку розвитку. The article researches the history of origin and formation of globalization discourse and analyzes the approaches to understanding of globalization. On the basis of the research there is made a conclusion about the absence of some single general globalization theory in science. There is also a conclusion about the existence of many globalization conceptions that use different approaches to interpret its essence, genesis, history, structure, and logic of development. Over a period of two last decades, the term «globalization» has been used for marking the increasing world interdependency in economic, social, cultural, and political spheres. It is significant that the term is considered to be so clear, that the majority of authors do not provide its definition even in the works that directly cover the globalization theory. The representatives of different areas of science inclined to interpret the globalization on the basis of their own ideas and science interests. Hence there emerges a necessity to study the given standpoints. In general, this research shows that theorisation of globalization has evolved unevenly in spite of a numerous theoretic debates and a literature boom. Particularly, it is observed that in the analysis of the globalization the most active are the experts of the fields of social philosophy, sociology, economics, political science, cultural studies, whereas in the other spheres of knowledge the globalization remains a marginal subject: it does not appear on the forefront and does not represent a subject of particular scientific interest. Assessing the scientific state of the development of the problematic field of globalization, it seems reasonable to talk not about globalization theory, but about globalization theories, or considerably better about discourse and studies of globalization. The feature of globalization discourse consists in the fact that this discourse can not be localized on any one problem, in this connection the diversity of this issue broadens the field of scientific research and theoretical notions about globalization.