And more important, you apparently want to say that globalization partly means the standardization of Western cultures.
While there have always been familial and social pressures to perform academically, and while some people have always attempted to get or attain something with the least amount of energy expended, I would ask what effects has our age of standardization, corporatization, globalization, privatization, and deregulation of the business, banking, and corporate sectors have on learning?
You can have standards without having standardization.
To take advantage of globalization, he wrote, companies should standardize as much as possible, because what people most desire are the low prices and quality made possible by standardization.
Some urban planners and social scientists have linked this trend toward design standardization to the rising influence of globalization.
For Baudrillard, globalization is fundamentally a process of homogenization and standardization that crushes "the singular" and heterogeneity.
Standardization is critical for comparison and globalization of surveillance.
Presenting the Swiss award, noted Swiss architect Mario Botta praised the elevation of craft skills within Studio Mumbai at a time when the forces of globalization are so often interpreted as "a form of standardization rather than an opportunity for interaction and enrichment".
With the globalization of clinical trials, a growing emphasis has been placed on the standardization of the workflow in order to ensure the reproducibility and reliability of the overall trial.
The greatest "American peril" (a phrase that became commonplace in the literature) was the standardization of social life (the ancestor of today's complaints against globalization), the thinning of the richness of human habits to the point where they could be marketable not only inside America but, because of the global reach of American capitalism, to the entire world.
