Conworld Flashcards
Tariffs and quotas regulate trade. T or F?
TRUE
Economic globalization is the increasing interdependence of world economies. T or F?
TRUE
Core countries usually work as labor for peripheral countries. T or F?
FALSE
In terms of trade, it matters to ensure the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of the marginalized. T or F?
TRUE
Globalization is only beneficial as it allows the development of countries. T or F?
FALSE
It is our responsibility as humans to take care of our resources, thus, we must practice sustainable development. T or F?
TRUE
Global cities give a competitive advantage in terms of jobs, income and
economic advancement. T or F?
TRUE
Agriculture plays a big role in ensuring food security. T or F?
TRUE
Modernization theory states that global stratification acts as a function of technological and cultural differences. T or F?
TRUE
Global cities are engines of globalization. T or F?
TRUE
Agriculture plays a vital role in maintaining food security. T or F?
TRUE
We should always be aware of what is happening around us as it helps us with decision making. T or F?
TRUE
In global income inequality, wealth inequality deals with the distribution of the country’s assets. T or F?
TRUE
Multiplier effect states that as economic activities increases, jobs and income decrease. T or F?
FALSE
Food security means you do not have the fear of starvation. T or F?
TRUE
Semi-peripheral countries have a close tie to the economic core. T or F?
TRUE
Peripheral countries often work as labor to core countries. T or F?
TRUE
Trade liberalization means easer movement of goods from one country to another. T or F?
TRUE
Protectionism means the country protects its local products by imposing tariffs and quotas. T or F?
TRUE
Global cities promote diversity in culture. T or F?
TRUE
Globalization allows for connections among people, communities, and countries all over the globe. T or F?
TRUE
Fertility rate is the average period that a person may expect to live.T or F?
TRUE
The literature on the definitions of globalization revealed that definitions could be classified as either (1) broad and exclusive or (2) narrow and inclusive. T or F?
FALSE
No matter how one classifies a definition of globalization, the concept is complex and multifaceted as the definitions deal with either economic, political, or social dimensions. T or F?
TRUE
Globalization is not changing as the society develops. T or F?
FALSE
Globalization can be influenced by the people who define it. T or F?
TRUE
Liquidity and solidity are in constant interaction. T or F?
TRUE
Globalization has played a tremendous role in providing a context for the current revival and the resurgence of religion. T or F?
TRUE
Our basic human need to make our lives better made globalization possible. T or F?
TRUE
Cultural imperialism is the blending of elements from different cultures. T or F?
FALSE
Globalization helps to increase greater religious tolerance. T or F?
TRUE
Dependency ratio is the number of people who are too young or too old to enter the work force. T or F?
BONUS
Heterogeneity refers to the increasing sameness in the world as cultural inputs, economic factors, and political orientations of societies expand to similarity create common practices, same economies, and similar forms of government. T or F?
FALSE
Globalization is a short-term cyclical process and thus, finding is origin will be a hard task. T or F?
FALSE
Metaphors of Globalization?
*Solid
*Liquid
*Flows
Global Migration-Country Losing People (Advantage)
*Money
*Decrease pressure
*new skills
Global Migration-Country Losing People (Disadvantage)
*Reduce potential work force
*Gender imbalance
*Brain drain
Global Migration-Host Country (Advantage)
- Richer culture
- Reduce labor shortage
- Low skilled, Low paid
Global Migration-Country Host Country (Disadvantage)
*Cost increase
*Overcrowding
*Disagreements
Different perspectives on the origin of globalization
- HARDWIRED
- CYCLES
*EPOCH
*EVENTS
*BROADER MORE RECENT CHANGES
Always put an effort in addressing challenges all around the world
UNITED NATIONS
“the process of world
shrinkage, of distances getting shorter”
Thomas Larsson
it is a period of time when there is a prevailing sense of inter connectedness, of all human beings, of a common fate tor human species and of threat to
its life on this Earth. (Albrow, 2012)
Global Age
Globalization is
important, if not, the “most important”
Bauman, (2003)
What is Globalization
Multiple processes - because it cannot be contained within a specific time.
describes the opportunity by which the people or factors behind a certain development in a country benefit as well
Broad and Inclusive
exclusivity is the restriction or the limitation within
a group, area, or people
Narrow and exclusive
wrote that definitions suggest the perspective of the author on the origins and the geopolitical implications of globalization.
Al- Rhodan (2004)
it is complex, multifaceted , and can be influenced by the people who decline it.
Shifting in Nature
refers to barriers that prevent or make difficult the
movement of things
Solid
refers to the increasing of movement of people, thing, information, and places in the contemporary world
liquid
Movement of people, things, places, and information brought by growing “porosity” of global limitations ( Ritzer, 2015)
flows
increasing sameness m the word as cultural inputs, economics and political orientations of societies expand to create common practices same economies, and similar form of government.
Homogeneity
various cultural practices,
new economies, and political groups because of the interaction of elements from different societies in the world.
(cultural hybridization)
Heterogeneity
that cultures are essentially different and are only superficially affected by global flows.
Cultural differentialism
the integration of local and global culture Cultural
Cultural hybridization
approach stresses homogeneity introduced by globalization
Cultural convergence
Spread information, New idea, challenge the religion
Globalization of Religion
( wiling todo) - Ancestors m Africa, Late ice Age
Hardwired
Disappear and Reappear that’s why it is hard to pin point because of the cycle
Cycles
started with a new beginning
* Globalization of religion
* European colonial conquest *Intra - European wars
*post - World War lI period
*post -cold war period
Epoch
Several events in history
Events
Three notable changes:
*The emergence of the united state as the global power
* The emergence of multinational corporations (MNCs)
*The demise of the soviet union and the end of the cold war
broader, more Recent changes
global demography (demo)
people
global demography (graphos)
illustrate to draw or measure
an age-population ratio of those typically not in the labor force and those typically in the labor force
Dependency ratio
reduction in mortality rates observed in the nineteenth century, characterized by smaller fluctuations in death rates compared to previous periods.
Mortality decline
Increasing population of people
Population explosion
the minimum age or stage of life required by law for a person to work
working age
the average period that a person may expect to live.
life expectancy
the ratio between the number of live-born births in the year and the average total population of that year.
Birth rate
the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area or during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year.
Death rate
the number of children that would be born
Fertility rate
the rate at which a disease or illness occurs in a population
Morbidity
To know what policy need to imply
Policy implication
Movements of people around the world
Global Migration
Good and negative opportunity
push and pull factor
Increasing interdependence of the world
Economic globalization
2 types of economics
- Protectionism - quotas and tariffs
- Trade liberation - easier movement
Social economic, environmental well - being of the marginalized
Fair trade
Preservation of resources
sustainable development
two factors of Globalization
- Beneficial - gives us development and
- Destructive - sometimes we forgot to protect
Factories for mass production
Industrial revolution
quickest possible way of producing large amount of products
Efficiency
The two issues where they dont know what to address
economic and environmental issues
The world has enough access to food
Global food security
means an increase in one economic activity can lead to an increase in other economic activities
Multiplier effect
wealth - net worth of a country assets and
income - new earnings distribution
Global income inequality
Globalized economic system and competitive advantage
Global City
are engines of globalization
Global cities
global stratification as a
unequal distribution
Function of technological and cultural differences
Modernization Theory
Characteristics of global city
- several multinational Corporations
- financial headquarters, stock exchange
- diversity in language, culture
- major manufacturing centers
- international significance
Columbian Exchange
Spread of goods, services, technology, etc.
-America and Europe
- Christopher columbus
- Industrial revolution
High income
Core
tie to economic core
semi peripheral
lowest for the work core country
peripheral
