globalisation Flashcards
(33 cards)
Who is associated with the concept of Distanciation in sociology?
Anthony Giddens.
Which sociologist is linked to the concepts of Simulacra and Postmodernism?
Jean Baudrillard.
Who introduced the idea of the Global Village?
Marshall McLuhan.
According to Scholte (2000), what are the consequences of defining globalisation?
Internationalisation, liberalisation, universalisation, and modernisation.
Which theorist argued that capitalism was already a global system in the mid-19th century?
Karl Marx.
What did Marx predict about the global working class?
Workers in different countries would have more in common with each other than with different classes from their own country.
Who is associated with the World Systems Theory?
Immanuel Wallerstein.
How does Wallerstein describe the global economic system?
As a system with core, periphery, and semi-periphery regions that are politically and economically interdependent.
Who introduced the concept of Global Care Chains?
Arlie Hochschild.
Which sociologist is linked with the idea of McDonaldisation?
George Ritzer (not Bryman, though Bryman discussed the concept).
Who is associated with Neo-Liberalism and its critique?
Walden Bello.
Which sociologist coined the term “Risk Society”?
Ulrich Beck.
According to Beck, what society do we now live in?
A global risk society, where risks transcend nation states.
Who argues that new global social movements are responses to global risks?
Ulrich Beck.
Who wrote about “The end of the nation state”?
Kenichi Ohmae.
Who contests the idea that nation states are withering away due to globalisation?
David Gray, Paul Hirst, and Grahame Thompson.
What argument do Hirst and Thompson make about nation states?
Nation states remain key to creating stable conditions for trade and development, and some power has been devolved to local levels.
Who discusses multi-ethnicity and the impact of globalisation on identities?
Robin Cohen and Paul Kennedy.
Who gave the example of ‘Brasian’ to describe hybrid identities?
Johal.
Who is associated with the idea of Homogenisation in globalisation?
Nayan Chanda.
In Marxist theory, what is the main division created by global capitalism?
Between the bourgeoisie (owners) and the proletariat (workers).
What is a core region according to World Systems Theory?
A region that dominates trade, controls advanced technologies, and exploits other regions.
What is a periphery region in Wallerstein’s model?
A region that is exploited for its resources and labor by core regions.
What does semi-periphery refer to in World Systems Theory?
Regions which are intermediate, both exploiting and being exploited, bridging the core and periphery.
