WEEK 4 Flashcards
WORLD SYSTEMS PARADIGM espoused by
Immanuel Wallerstein
views globalization not as a recent phenomenon but virtually synonymous with the birth and spread of world capitalism. This paradigm posits that the appropriate unit of analysis for macro-social inquiry in the modern world is neither class nor state/society. Or country, but the larger historical system, in which these categories are located.
WORLD SYSTEMS PARADIGM
treats globalization as a novel stage in the evolving system of world capitalism. focuses on the new global production and financial system which are thought to have superseded earlier national forms of capitalism/ emphasizes on the rise of processes that cannot be framed within nation-states or the inter-state systems which lies at the core of the world system theory.
GLOBAL CAPITALISM PARADIGM
this paradigm does not subscribe to the contention that capitalism fuels globalization. argues that technology and technological change are the underlying causes of the several processes that comprise globalization.
THE NETWORK SOCIETY SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
the economy is informational, knowledge-based
global, in that production is organized on a global scale
networked, in that productivity is generated through global networks of information
Manuel Castells’ The Rise of the Network Society features “technologist” approach to globalization:
the conceptual essence of globalization is time-space ‘distanciation’; the intensification of worldwide social relations that link distinct localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa – social relations are “lifted out” from local contexts of interaction and restructured across time and space.
Anthony Giddens
globalization represents a new burst of ‘time-space compression’ produced by the very dynamics of capitalist development
David Harvey
a principle of carrying out an action across national borders, so as to have effects at a more general level; allows the exchanging information and expertise, or benchmarking practices in different member states
Transnationality
refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people and institutions across the borders of nation-states; centers on exchanges, connections, and practices across borders (economic, political, social, and cultural ) that link people, and institutions across the borders of nation-states resulting in the rise of new communities and the formation of new social identities and relations
Transnationalism
Emphasizes the rapid growth of mass media and resultant global cultural flows and recent decades have evoked the image of the ‘global village’
GLOBAL CULTURE PARADIGM
the sociocultural processes by which the principles of the fastfood restaurant came to dominate more and more sectors of societies
McDonaldization (Ritzer)
4 OTHER THEORIES:
LIBERALISM
MARXISM
POSTMODERNISM
POLITICAL REALISM
