The four dimensions of globalisation according to Anthony Giddens - "Giddens defines globalisation as the intensification of worldwide social relations linking distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many thousands of miles away and vice versa. Although every attempt at classifying the processes of globalisation necessarily results in oversimplification and a reduction of complexity, Giddens defines four dimensions of globalisation."

http://www.glopp.ch/A3/en/multimedia/giddens.pdf