FINAL EXAM

Question 1

Globalization

Answer 1

• processes by which people, things, ideas, technologies, are spread throughout the world
• HOMOGENEITY; e.g. McWorld, CocaCola, globalization economics and culture (everything is turning to Western culture)
• Globalization can be seen in many things: political, social-cultural, economic
• Things can be made cheap and sold cheap

Question 2

Civil Wars

Answer 2

• caused by economics (especially a high dollar resource), caused by greed
• also caused by grievance
• low GDP, more people in poverty, less to loose
• –Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda (in the 90’s)
• — bunch of people with nothing to loose, war could be beneficial (GREED), discrimination also (GRIEVANCE)

Question 3

Economies of Sale

Answer 3

the more you sell, the cheaper you can sell it for

Question 4

Freetrade Zone

Answer 4

no tax (defined geography)

Question 5

Political Identity

Answer 5

• The race is a social construction
• ethnicity is shared characteristics between people, cultural; language, region, religion, culture and dress
• on the 2010 census, Latino wants to take part in the census, but it only said white and Black (Dr. Jones teaching in Florida)
• ECONOMIC IDENTITY: if you believe that there is a war between the middle class and higher class

Question 6

Economic Identity

Answer 6

Karl Marx: BOURGEOISIE= upper class, PROLETARIAT= working-class