Kate White (1984–2004) Thomas Robertson Roland Robertson (August 7, 1938 - April 29, 2022) was a sociologist and theorist of globalization who lectured at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
Robertson married long time partner Judith Velody in 2018.
Robertson's theories have focused significantly on a more phenomenological and psycho-social approach than that of more materialist oriented theorists such as Immanuel Wallerstein or Fredric Jameson.
For Robertson, the most interesting aspect of the modern (or postmodern) era is the way in which a global consciousness has developed.
[1] His 1992 definition of globalization as "the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole"[1] has been credited as the first ever definition of globalization,[2] though a more detailed analysis of the history of this term indicates it has many authors.