Chapter 14 - Globalization & Social Change

Question 1

What are the 3 sociological approaches to globalization?

Answer 1

1) the world system perspective
2) the world society perspective
3) perspective on space and time

Question 2

What does the world system perspective focus on?

Answer 2

Economic globalization

Question 3

How does the capitalist world system work as a global whole?

Answer 3

States are categorized as core, semi-periphery or periphery and Capital accumulation flows from periphery to core and is unequal

Question 4

According to world system perspective, what is at the centre of economic and political power, involved skilled, high-wage power?

Answer 4

Core

Question 5

What category of the world system perspective is characterized by low-skilled, low-wage labor?

Answer 5

Periphery

Question 6

What category of the world system perspective is a mix of core and periphery?

Answer 6

Semi-periphery

Question 7

What term represents a buffer between core and periphery?

Answer 7

Dual nature

Question 8

What are the two opposing trends in global social change?

Answer 8

Convergence and divergence

Question 9

Which trend in global social change makes people and societies more similar?

Answer 9

Convergence

Question 10

Can globalization experience convergence and divergence?

Answer 10

Yes

Question 11

What is the world society perspective focused on?

Answer 11

Similarities in structures, institutions and practices among states

Question 12

What does the world society perspective argue?

Answer 12

Similarities arise from a common set of world cultural norms and scripts models that were adopted and implemented by states

Question 13

What refers to the similarity of organization structure emerging from imitation, coercion or pressures of legitimacy?

Answer 13

Institutional isomorphism

Question 14

What refers to the extent to which a state is tied to rationalized others of world society?

Answer 14

Embeddedness

Question 15

What refers to the extent to which a state is influenced by actions of other states?

Answer 15

Model density

Question 16

What is understood as the contagion or demonstration effect?

Answer 16

Model density

Question 17

Are world cultural models dynamic?

Answer 17

Yes

Question 18

What does the space-time perspective focus on?

Answer 18

Increasing interconnectedness of the world in relation to time and space

Question 19

What are the processes that change the way we view time and space?

Answer 19

Time-space distanciation

Question 20

Who proposed the idea of time-space distanciation?

Answer 20

Harvey

Question 21

What reflects the notion of compressing or accelerating time and the shrinking of distances through technologies associated with communication or travel?

Answer 21

Time-space distanciation

Question 22

Who proposed the space of flows, that space is connected to flows of ideas?

Answer 22

Castells

Question 23

Who proposed that global cities reflect changing notions of space and definitions of local?

Answer 23

Sassen

Question 24

What is the term used to describe a product or service that is developed and distributed globally, but also adjusted to accommodate the user or consumer in a local market?

Answer 24

Glocalization

Question 25

What illustrates the significance of globalization in everyday life?

Answer 25

Global flows

Question 26

What are the 3 main types of global flows?

Answer 26

1) capital, goods and services
2) transportation and information/communication technologies
3) people or human capital

Question 27

What refers to market-oriented reform policies?

Answer 27

Neo-liberalism

Question 28

What is the term for people scattering from their homeland to places across the globe, taking and spreading their culture as they do?

Answer 28

Diaspora

Question 29

How has migration affected globalization?

Answer 29

Increased it