World Systems THEORY

Question 1

Wallerstein

What was the principle behind Wallerstein’s theory?

Answer 1

Countries in the core (America) trade with countries in the semi-periphery to get technology (China) who get raw materials from the periphery.

Question 2

Wallerstein

What were countries in the core systematically doing?

Answer 2

Placing countries in the periphery in a worse position.

Question 3

Wallerstein

What is Wallerstein’s idea commonly known as?

Answer 3

‘Global Marxism’

Question 4

Wallerstein

What happens to the raw products every time they pass through a new type of country?

Answer 4

They increase in price and value.

Question 5

Wallerstein

What would socialists want to happen to surplus materials produced by core countries?

Answer 5

Given to periphery countries, allowing countries to grow together. Instead, they’re being deliberately underdeveloped.

Question 6

What do structuralists believe?

Answer 6

There’s a fixed pattern in society.

Question 7

Wallerstein

When was Wallerstein’s theory developed?

Answer 7

1970s

Question 8

Wallerstein

How do world theory and dependency link together?

How can this be viewed as structuralism?

Answer 8

Periphery countries are purposefully underdeveloped by core countries.

It’s a cycle and fixed pattern of inequality, perpetrated by core countries.