Contemporary World Flashcards
A state of the world involving networks of interdependence at multicontinental distances
Globalism
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
Globalism
Breaking down of national barriers so that nations can interact freely with one another
Globalization
Intensified geographical movements across national borders of commodities, people seeking employment, money and capital investment, knowledge, cultural values, and environmental pollutants
Globalization
Increasing the interdependence, connectivity, and integration on a global level on the social, cultural, political, technological, economic, and ecological levels
Globalization
develop or be developed so as to make international influence or operation possible
Globalize
Four various aspect of globalization according to Global Policy Forum (GPF)
❖Economy
❖Politics
❖Culture
❖Law
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.
Globalization of Economy
Advance in communication and transportation technology, combined with free market ideology, have given goods, services, and capital unprecedented mobility.
Globalization of Economy
refers to the growth of the worldwide political system, both in size and complexity.
Globalization of Politics
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.
Globalization of Politics
Sociologists define as “all the products of a society that are created over time and shared.
Globalization of Culture
refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings, and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social
relations.
Globalization of Culture
refers to the degree to which the whole world lives under a single set of legal rules
Globalization of Law
was a German-born philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and revolutionary socialist
Karl Marx
Whose theory analyzes the formation of social order on the basis of economic dynamics, rather than cultural mechanisms
Karl Marx’s Theory of Society
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.
Karl Marx
Who asserted that all elements of a society’s structure depend on its economic structure
Karl Marx
Who argues that modern social change can only be studied within the context of a historically conceived single world system
Immanuel Wallerstein
What theory does Wallerstein proposed
Theory of Modern World-System
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
Immanuel Wallerstein
Three kinds of social systems based from Immanuel Wallerstein
❖ Mini-systems
❖ World empire
❖ World economies
a social system which composed of very simple agricultural or hunting societies featuring a complete division of labor and single cultural framework
Mini-systems
multiple cultural system, but only one political system and a single division of labor
world empire
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
world economy
