Chapter 13 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Cosmopolitan
Being at ease in more than one cultural setting
Hybridity
Cultural mixing
Cultural Imperialism
The idea that some cultures dominate other cultures and that cultural domination by one culture leads inevitably to the destruction of subordinated cultures and their replacement by the culture of those in power
Human Rights
A set of rights that should be accorded to all human beings everywhere in the world
Post national ethos
An attitude tward the world in which people submit to the governmentality of the capitalist market while trying to evade the governmentality of nation-states
Multiculturalism
living permanentky in settings surrounded by people with cultural backrounds different from your own and struggling to define the degree to which the cultural beliefs and practices of different groups sould or should not be accorded respect and recognition by the wider society
Legal citizenship
THe rights and obligations of citzenship accorded by the laws of a state
Substantive citizenship
The actions people take, regardless of their legal citizenship status, to assert their membership in a state and to bring about political changes that will improve their lives
Transnational nation states
nation states in which the relationship between citizens and their states extend to wherever the citizens reside
Flexible citizenship
The strategies and effects employed by managers, technocrats, and professionals who regularly move across boundaries and who seek both to circumvent and benefit from different nation-state regimes
Diaspora
Migrant populations with a shared identity who live in a variety of different locales around the world; a form of transborder identity that does not focus on nation building
Long Distance nationalists
Members of a diaspora who begin to organize in support of nationalists struggles in their homeland or to agitate for a state of their own
Transborder State
A form of state in which it is claimed that those people who left the country and their descendants remain part of their ancestral state, even if they are citizens of a nother state
Transborder citizenry
A group made up of citizens of a country who continue to live in the homeland plus the people who have emigrated from the country and their descendants regardless of their current citizenship
Core
In world-system theory, the nations specializing in banking, finance and highly skilled industrial production
Periphery
In world system theory, those exploited former colonies that supply the core with cheap food and raw materials
Semi-periphery
In world system theory states that have played peripheral roles in the past but now have sufficient industrial capacity and other resources to possibly achieve core status in the future
Globalization
Reshaping of local conditions by powerful global forces on an every-intensifying scale
Dependance theory
A theory that argues that the success of independent capitalist nations has required the failure of dependent colonies or nations whose economies have been distorted to serve the needs of dominant capitalist outsiders
World system theory
A theory that argues that, from the late fifteenth and early 16th century european capitalist began to incorporate other regions and peoples into a world system whose parts were linked economically but not politically
Modernization Theory
A theory that argues that the social change occurring in non western societies under colonial rules was a necessary and inevitable prelude to higher levels of social development that had been reached by the more modern nations.
