THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD REVIEWER Flashcards

1
Q

Refers to the processes by which more people
across large distance become connected in more
different ways.

A

GLOBALIZATION

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2
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What is the process through which
the constraints of physical space lose their hold on social relations?

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Deterritorialization

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3
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It is an interaction of people and primarily an
economic process of integration which has social
and cultural aspects as well.

A

GLOBALIZATION

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4
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process by which capitalism expands across the
globe as powerful economic actors seek profit in
global markets and impose their rules everywhere

A

GLOBALIZATION

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5
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Also known as Neoliberalism

A

GLOBALIZATION

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6
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new opportunity to spread the faith and
convert lost souls abroad

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Korean Pentecostal missionary

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7
Q

growing new roots while staying deeply involved
in the home village

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Dominican immigration in the U. S

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8
Q

what theory of globalization that is a perspective that globalization is essentially the expansion of the capitalist system around the globe

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World-System Theory

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9
Q

This theory of Globalization is where a state remains an important component of world society, but primarily attention goes to the global cultural and organization

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World Polity Theory

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10
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This theory of Globalization states that the world culture is indeed new and important, but less homogeneous than world polity.

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World Culture Theory

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11
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Since when does Globalization has been happening for a long time?

A

16th Century

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12
Q

when is the period of intense globalization, when million migrated, trade generally expanded and new norms and organization came
to govern international conduct?

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Late 19th century

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13
Q

when did the movement of people, goods and finance across national borders was at least as free and significant as it is today?

A

20th century

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14
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Period when globalization is significant in its own right

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2nd half of 20th century

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15
Q

what gave globalization a new impetus?

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Word War II

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16
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It is the process of offering a product or service to a wider section of an existing market or into a new demographic, psychographic or geographic market

A

Expanding Market

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17
Q

What is the economic system operating
along capitalist lines now encompasses most region of the world, and economic motivates always have been important in creating global linkages, globalization takes place in many sphere for many reasons?

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Expanding Market

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18
Q

It is when certain activities or institutions become
global, they must displace existing local
variable activities and institution

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HOMOGENEOUS WORLD

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19
Q

What differences have themselves become globally valid

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Cultural and Political Differences

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20
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It is an idea that reflects the concepts of globalization

A

Market Globalization

21
Q

This seeks to endow globalization with free market norms and neoliberal meanings

A

Market Globalization

22
Q

TRUE OR FALSE
Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of
markets

A

TRUE

23
Q

the more you let market forces rule and the more you open your economy to _______ and ________, the more ______ your economy will be

A

free trade and competition, efficient

24
Q

This means the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world

A

GLOBALIZATION

25
Q

They are not in charge in the sense of imposing their own political agenda on people. rather, they merely carry out the unalterable imperatives of a transcendental force much larger than narrow partisan interest

A

Globalist

26
Q

These frequently place existing economic, political, and social realities within a neo-liberal framework; sustaining the claim that globalization benefits everyone through omnipresent affirmative images, websites, banner advertisements, and sound bites

A

Television, radio and internet

27
Q

It is the belief that economies and businesses function best when there is no interference by the government. It comes from the French, meaning to leave alone or to allow to do. It is one of the guiding principles of capitalism and a free market economy

A

Laissez faire

28
Q

a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advance by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by a strong private property rights, free markets and free trade

A

Neoliberalism

29
Q

It is the process of transferring an enterprise or
industry from the public sector to the private
sector.

A

Privitization

30
Q

It is the process of transferring an enterprise or
industry from the public sector to the private
sector.

A

Privatization

31
Q

It is the increasing integration of economies
around the world particularly through the movement of goods, services and capital across borders

A

Economic Globalization

32
Q

It is the movement of people and knowledge
across international borders

A

Economic Globalization

33
Q

The best-known example of archaic
globalization, which connected Asia, Africa and
Europe.

A

Silk Road

34
Q

The most central area in international economy

A

The International Monetary System

35
Q

This indicates that the value of a country’s net foreign assets grew over the period in question, and a current account deficit indicates that it shrank.

A

Current account surplus

36
Q

This is part of a country’s balance of payments. It measures financial transactions that don’t currently affect a country’s income, production, or savings.

A

Capital accounts

37
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The difference in total value between payments into and out of a country over a period. These transactions consist of imports and exports of goods, services and capital, as well as transfer payments such as foreign aid and remittances.

A

Balance of payments

38
Q

It is equal to gross domestic product less gross
domestic income. These two measures are, in
principle, the same. The difference reflects less than perfect source data. is the difference between demand and supply in national accounts.

A

Statistical discrepancy

39
Q

This is the proportion of customers’ deposits a bank is required by the Fed to hold in reserve without loaning out required reserve ratio is sometimes used as a tool in monetary policy, influencing the country’s borrowing and interest rates by changing the amount of funds available for banks to make loans with.

A

Change in Reserve Requirements

40
Q

This is an institution that manages a state’s currency, money supply, and interest rates

A

Central Bank

41
Q

What are the Four Monetary Regime

A

Classical gold standard (1870 – 1914)
Gold exchange standard
Bretton Woods system (1944-1973)
Non-system of floating and fixed exchange rate –1973 to present

42
Q

Effects of Economic Globalization on Developing Countries

A

Increased Standard of Living
Access to New Markets
Decreased Employment

43
Q

States effectively act and interact with one another on the global or world system

A

Interstate system

44
Q

A system of centralized rule that succeeded
in subordinating all other institutions and groups,
temporal and spiritual (Heywood 2011).

A

State

45
Q

Interaction and behavior that occur across boundaries of states

A

International Relations

46
Q

supreme power or authority

A

Sovereignty

47
Q

state’s authority within

A

Internal Sovereignty

48
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relationship of states to other states and international actors as it establishes state’s capacity to act as an independent and autonomous entity in world affairs

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External Sovereignty