Contemporary World

Question 1

A state of the world involving networks of interdependence at multicontinental distances

Answer 1

Globalism

Question 2

These networks can be linked through flows and influences of capital and goods, information and ideas, people and force, as well as environmentally and biologically relevant substances

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Globalism

Question 3

Breaking down of national barriers so that nations can interact freely with one another

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Globalization

Question 4

Intensified geographical movements across national borders of commodities, people seeking employment, money and capital investment, knowledge, cultural values, and environmental pollutants

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Globalization

Question 5

Increasing the interdependence, connectivity, and integration on a global level on the social, cultural, political, technological, economic, and ecological levels

Answer 5

Globalization

Question 6

develop or be developed so as to make international influence or operation possible

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Globalize

Question 7

Four various aspect of globalization according to Global Policy Forum (GPF)

Answer 7

❖Economy
❖Politics
❖Culture
❖Law

Question 8

involves trade in goods and services, capital flows and trade in assets (e.g., currency, stocks), the transfer of technology and ideas, international flows of labor or migration.

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Globalization of Economy

Question 9

Advance in communication and transportation technology, combined with free market ideology, have given goods, services, and capital unprecedented mobility.

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Globalization of Economy

Question 10

refers to the growth of the worldwide political system, both in size and complexity.

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Globalization of Politics

Question 11

the national government have been the responsible for maintaining the security and economic welfare of their citizens, protection of human rights and the environment within their borders.

Answer 11

Globalization of Politics

Question 12

Sociologists define as “all the products of a society that are created over time and shared.

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Globalization of Culture

Question 13

refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings, and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social
relations.

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Globalization of Culture

Question 14

refers to the degree to which the whole world lives under a single set of legal rules

Answer 14

Globalization of Law

Question 15

was a German-born philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and revolutionary socialist

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Karl Marx

Question 16

Whose theory analyzes the formation of social order on the basis of economic dynamics, rather than cultural mechanisms

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Karl Marx’s Theory of Society

Question 17

He defines the nature of social order and individuals’ actions as:

❖ reflections of the dominant relations of production
❖ a context in which a struggle for wealth
❖ power between social classes shapes the nature of social order.

Answer 17

Karl Marx

Question 18

Who asserted that all elements of a society’s structure depend on its economic structure

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Karl Marx

Question 19

Who argues that modern social change can only be studied within the context of a historically conceived single world system

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Immanuel Wallerstein

Question 20

What theory does Wallerstein proposed

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Theory of Modern World-System

Question 21

Who introduce the modern world-system as a global social system in which the world economy, global politics, and global culture interact and a global division of economic labor unifies different parts of the modern world system as a social whole

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Immanuel Wallerstein

Question 22

Three kinds of social systems based from Immanuel Wallerstein

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❖ Mini-systems
❖ World empire
❖ World economies

Question 23

a social system which composed of very simple agricultural or hunting societies featuring a complete division of labor and single cultural framework

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Mini-systems

Question 24

multiple cultural system, but only one political system and a single division of labor

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world empire

Question 25

combines multiple politics and multiple cultures in a single division of economic labor, and it is this idea of a single capitalist mode of production with multiple political and cultural systems

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world economy