The Contemporary World

The top three global cities Saskia Sassen identified.

Refers to production and distribution of information and images through newspapers, magazines, TV, and film, as well as digital technologies.

Robertson popularized this term. It refers to the twofold process of universalizing and particularizing tendencies.

He is a British sociologist who argues that the intermixing of global and local cultures is a key feature of society that produces new creative possibilities. He identifies four areas that are central to understanding the cultural dynamics of globalization.

It is the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.

In 2022, the Philippines remarkably had the third lowest fertility rate in Southeast Asia after Singapore and Thailand.

It's the movement of people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily in a new location.

It’s the right of people to access nutritious and culturally suitable food produced sustainably, and they also have the right to control their own agricultural, fishing, and land production systems, along with implementing policies that align with their unique ecological, social, economic, and cultural circumstances.