Chapter 17 Flashcards

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modernization

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related to the rise of capitalism and industrialization

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modernization is a process by which

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agrarian societies are transformed into industrial societies

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different levels of modernization brings

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different levels of global inequality

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social systems internal sources of change

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innovations, new culture, new social structure, conflicts, population growth

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social systems external sources of change

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diffusion, conflit, ecological

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cultural lag

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the delay between a change in one part o fa society and the corresponding changes of other parts

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cultural lag is based on

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the idea that sites are interrelated

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cultural lags can be dangerous

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when parts of society are out of harmony

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capitalism

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economic systems based on private ownership of the means of production

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capitalism is a system where

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people can compete for profit

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marx believed that capitalism

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promotes technological innovation - constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production

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marx thought capitalism could be destroyed by

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the reason its so productive could be the reason its destroyed

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how does it produce more

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by dehumanizing and alienating people

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believed that modernization could be

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separated from the capitalism that produced it

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protestant ethic

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set of religious ideas that promoted the growth of capitalism

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if salvation is predestined

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the only way to know if you are saved is by economic success

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religious values encourage

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capitalism

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religious people

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are hard working and honest people who reinvest their wealth

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spirit of capitalism,

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eventually, the practices create their own ideology and values

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when capitalism is pursed in own right

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religious values are no longer needed

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state theory of modernization

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taming of the state

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when repressive state exists

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only command economy will result

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when state is “tamed”

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capitalism will always develop

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to produce a surplus

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there is benefit and incentive

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what will develop quickly when people profit from it

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technology and innovation

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both _ and _ are produced by the taming of the state

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protestantism and capitalism

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modern world system

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global System in which nation are economically and politically interdependent

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what is the cause of inequality

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the relationships between and among nations

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what exists among nations

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stratification

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what is the world system shaped by

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world capitalist economy

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three political and economic specialization positions

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core, semiperiphery, periphery

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core

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strongest, most powerful, control the system

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semiperiphery

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industrialized/ not as developed

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periphery

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experts raw materials to other nations, exploited