Chap 1 Flashcards
What was Steger teaching on 2001?
Modern political ans social theory
Where was the recent attack on 2001?
World Trade Center and Pentagon
What was Globalization in the understanding of Steger?
Contested concept
A concept that refers to
sometimes contradictory social processes
Globalization
-Steger, 2003
Wh was the Saudi-born Al Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden
When was bin Laden broadcast his global address?
Oct. 7, 2001
The infamous videotape bears no date, but experts estimate that the recording was made in ___
Less than 2 weeks
The timing of its release appears to have been carefully planned so
as to achieve the maximum effect on the day the United States commenced its bombing campaign against
Taliban and Al Qaeda
What part of Afghanistan they indulge themsevles?
Secluded place in Eastern Afghanistan
Qatar-based television
company
Al Jazeera
In 2001, the company further intensified its global reach when
its chief executives signed a lucrative cooperation agreement
with
CNN
CNN the leading news network owned by the giant
multinational corporation
AOL-TIME-Warner
few months
later, when the world’s attention shifted to the war in
Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera had already positioned itself as a truly
global player, powerful enough to rent equipment to such prominent news providers
Reuters and ABC
Al Jazeera sell satellite time
Associated Press and BBC
Al Jazeera design an innovative Arabic-
language business news channel together with its other American
network partner
CNBC
the Bush administration asked the Qatari government to
Rein in Al Jazeera
The swift airing of the bin Laden tape without prior consultation was contributing to the rise of
Anti-American sentiments to Arab world and undermines the US war effort
What was bin Laden wearing and what is its symbolism?
He wore a contempo military fatigue with Arab garments. Representing hybridization
What was the pale colors of bin Laden’s mottled combat dress represent?
Betrayal in Russia and as a symbolization of the guerilla force against Societ occupation in Afghanistan in 1980
What was his gun
AK-47 Kalashnikov
What was his match brand?
TIMEX product
Since its earliest appearance in the 1960s, the term ‘globalization’ has been used in both popular and academic literature to describe a ___
Process
Condition
System
Force
Age
Signify a social condition
characterized by the existence of global economic, political,
cultural, and environmental interconnections and flows that make many of the currently existing borders and boundaries irrelevant.
Globality
a new social formation brought about by the successful colonization of our solar system
Planetarity
different social manifestations of globality:
one might be based primarily on values of individualism and competition, as well as on an economic system of private property, while another might embody more communal and cooperative social arrangements, including less capitalistic economic relations.
globalization should be used to refer to a set of ______ that are thought to transform our present social condition into one of globality
Social processes
Indeed, the popular phrase
‘globalization is happening’ contains three important pieces of information:
First, we are slowly leaving behind the condition of
modernity that gradually unfolded from the 16th century onwards;
Second, we are moving toward the new condition of (postmodern) globality; and,
Third, we have not yet reached it.
‘globalization’ suggests a sort of dynamism best
captured by the notion
Development and Unfolding
