Chapter 13

Question 1

Core

Answer 1

In world-system theory, the nations specializing in banking, finance, and highly skilled industrial production

Question 2

Cosmopolitanism

Answer 2

Being at ease in more than one cultural setting

Question 3

Cultural Hybridization

Answer 3

Cultural mixing that produces a new cultural form

Question 4

Cultural Imperialism

Answer 4

Idea some cultures have power over the other which leads to destruction of subordinated cultures and their replacement by the culture of those in power

Question 5

Dependency Theory

Answer 5

Theory which argues that the success of “independent” capitalist nations has required the failure of “dependent” colonies or nations whose economies have been distorted to serve the needs of dominant capitalist outsiders

Question 6

Diaspora

Answer 6

Migrant populations with a shared indentity to live in a variety of different locales around the world

Question 7

Flexible Citizenship

Answer 7

The strategies and effects employed by managers, technocrats, and professionals who regularly move across state boundaries and who seek both to circumvent and benefit from different nation-state regimes

Question 8

Globalization

Answer 8

Reshaping of local conditions by powerful global forces on an ever-intensifying scale

Question 9

Human Rights

Answer 9

Set of rights that should be accorded to all human beings everywhere in the world

Question 10

Indigenization

Answer 10

Process of bringing something foreign under the control of local people or adapting it to several local purposes

Question 11

Legal Citizenship

Answer 11

The rights and obligatons of citzenship accorded by the laws of the state

Question 12

Long-Distance nationalists

Answer 12

Members of a diaspora who begin to organize in support of nationalist struggle in their homeland or to agitate for a state of their own

Question 13

Modernization Theory

Answer 13

Argues that the social change occuring in non-Western societied under colonial rule was a neccessary and inevitable prelude to higher levels of social development that had been reached by more
“modern” nations

Question 14

Multiculturalism

Answer 14

Living permanently in settings surrounded by people with cultural backgrounds different from your own and struggling to understand it

Question 15

Neoliberalism

Answer 15

Political perspective that promotes individual freedom, open markets, and free trade while opposing strong state involvement in personal and economic affairs

Question 16

Periphery

Answer 16

In world-system theory, those exploited former colonies that supply the core with cheap food and raw materials

Question 17

Post-National Ethos

Answer 17

Attitude toward the world where people submit to the gonvernmentality of the capitalist market while trying to evade the governmentality of nation-states

Question 18

Semi-Periphery

Answer 18

In world-system theory, states that have played peripheral roles in the past but that now have sufficient industrial capacity and other resources to possibly achieve core status in the future

Question 19

Substantive Citizenship

Answer 19

Actions people take regardless of they citizenship status, to assert their membership in a state and to bring about political changes that will improve their lives

Question 20

Transborder Citizenery

Answer 20

Group made of citizens of a country who continue to live in the home-land and other people regardless of their current citizenship

Question 21

Transborder State

Answer 21

Claimed that those people who left the country and their descendants remain part of their ancestral state,

Question 22

Transnational Nation-State

Answer 22

Nation-States in which the relationships between citizens and their states extend to wherever citizens reside

Question 23

World-System Theory

Answer 23

Argues that from the late 15th century and early 16th century, europ capitalism began to incorporate other regions and people into a world system whose parts were linked economically but not politically