Chapter 14 - Globalization & Social Change Flashcards
(29 cards)
What are the 3 sociological approaches to globalization?
1) the world system perspective
2) the world society perspective
3) perspective on space and time
What does the world system perspective focus on?
Economic globalization
How does the capitalist world system work as a global whole?
States are categorized as core, semi-periphery or periphery and Capital accumulation flows from periphery to core and is unequal
According to world system perspective, what is at the centre of economic and political power, involved skilled, high-wage power?
Core
What category of the world system perspective is characterized by low-skilled, low-wage labor?
Periphery
What category of the world system perspective is a mix of core and periphery?
Semi-periphery
What term represents a buffer between core and periphery?
Dual nature
What are the two opposing trends in global social change?
Convergence and divergence
Which trend in global social change makes people and societies more similar?
Convergence
Can globalization experience convergence and divergence?
Yes
What is the world society perspective focused on?
Similarities in structures, institutions and practices among states
What does the world society perspective argue?
Similarities arise from a common set of world cultural norms and scripts models that were adopted and implemented by states
What refers to the similarity of organization structure emerging from imitation, coercion or pressures of legitimacy?
Institutional isomorphism
What refers to the extent to which a state is tied to rationalized others of world society?
Embeddedness
What refers to the extent to which a state is influenced by actions of other states?
Model density
What is understood as the contagion or demonstration effect?
Model density
Are world cultural models dynamic?
Yes
What does the space-time perspective focus on?
Increasing interconnectedness of the world in relation to time and space
What are the processes that change the way we view time and space?
Time-space distanciation
Who proposed the idea of time-space distanciation?
Harvey
What reflects the notion of compressing or accelerating time and the shrinking of distances through technologies associated with communication or travel?
Time-space distanciation
Who proposed the space of flows, that space is connected to flows of ideas?
Castells
Who proposed that global cities reflect changing notions of space and definitions of local?
Sassen
What is the term used to describe a product or service that is developed and distributed globally, but also adjusted to accommodate the user or consumer in a local market?
Glocalization
