Lesson 1: Introduction to the Study of Globalization Flashcards
It refers to the social phenomenon and events caused by people?
Globalization
What do you call the process of thinking outside from what’s familiar?
Sociological Imagination
How individuals influence society
Group dynamics
What do you call the sharing of culture, money, goods and products because of trade and advances in communication?
Globalization
This theory focuses on the world as a unit.
World Systems Theory
Three Players in the World Systems Theory?
Core Countries
Periphery Countries
Semi-Periphery Countries
What do you call countries that have strong central governments with enough tax to supoort itself, is economically diversified and is independent?
Core Countries
What do you call the countries that are relatively poor, focus on one industry and are usually influenced by core countries?
Periphery Countries
These countries are relatively diversified and are created when periphery countries are in their first stages to becoming a core country or when a core country are in their first stages of becoming a periphery country?
Semi-periphery countries
What is the biggest criticism of the World Systems Theory
It is too focused on economies
What do you call the theory in which it states that traditional countries will eventually become modern countries?
Modernization Theory
What do you call the theory wherein periphery countries will not accelerate to become core countries?
Dependency Theory
What do you call the perspective in which countries will eventually become integrated ?
Hyperglobalist Perspective
What do you call the perspective in which the world is becoming more regionalized rather than integrated?
Skeptical Perspective
What do you call the perspective in which national governments are changing but are changing in ways that are unknown to us?
Transformationalist Perspective
it is an organized formal group that was developed through time
Institution
It is the belief that globalization will bring an invisible, unbounded world that is able to operate effectively in a global economy without being closely networked with host regions.
Borderless World Theory
It is globalization is built around falling telecommunications costs – of microchips, satellites, fibre optics and the Internet
Communication Revolution Theory
a process in which locales are shaped by events far away, and vice versa, while social relations are disembedded or ‘lifted out’ from locales.
Time-Space Distanciation
Theory that states that the world will shrink to a global village and that time is shorten (efficiency increased) due to computer-based technology
Time-Space Distanciation
Theory that states that globalization has made human behavior more complex
Sociology Beyond Societies Theory
Theory that states that because of globalization there will be no space and time
Time-Space Compression
Theory that refers to to the compression of the world wherein the world will be interdependent and conscious about each other
Global Consciousness Theory
