TCW (IDENTIFICATION, MULTI, T OR F, ENUMERATION Flashcards
Why this course?
Avoid parochialism
World teaches us more about our societY
Filipinos increasingly interacting with the world
is the ability to
see the social patterns that influence individuals, families, groups, and organizations.
It is the individual’s awareness of the relationship between the individual and the
wider society, both today and in the past.
sociological imagination
Who discussed social imagination?
C Wright Mills (1916-1962)
Sociological Imagination
possible true or false
-“neither the life of an individual nor the history of a
society can be understood without understanding both,”
-Always asking the questions why?
-The idea that the individual can understand his own
experience and gauge his own fate only by locating
himself within his period, that he can know his own
chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all
individuals in his circumstances.
-It is the most fruitful form of this self-consciousness.
-The most fruitful distinction with which the sociological
imagination works is between ‘the personal troubles of
milieu’ and ‘the public issues of social structure’
The course’s approach: The Study
of Globalization
See contemporary world through a broad
lens
▪ Allows us to examine various globalizing
processes
▪ Forces us to ask questions re. global
citizenship
The course’s approach: The Study
of Globalization
The course’s approach: The Study
of Globalization
Is a policy followed by some international markets in which countries government do not restrict imports from, or export to other countries
Free trade
is exemplified by the European ecoonomic area and the mercosur which have established open markets
Free trade
Attributes of Globalization
- Various forms of connectivity
- Expansion and stretching of social
relations - Intensification and acceleration of social
exchanges and activities - Occurs subjectively
Remained primitive and underdeveloped
MAJORITY OF NATIONS
Globalization refers to the expansion and
intensification of social relations and
consciousness across world-time and world-space
Steger:
refers to both the creation of new social networks and the
multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional political,
economic, cultural, and geographic boundaries.
Intensification refers to the expansion, stretching and acceleration of
these networks.
Expansion
Prioritize their agricultural and industrial
revolution
MINORITY OF NATIONS
eave alone”- economic system that is
opposed to any government intervention to business
affairs.
“Laissez faire:
destroyed the already and initially built cultural patterns of production and
change.
Colonialism
The colonizers see agriculture in the subjugated lands as primitive and backward.
The colonizers see agriculture in the subjugated lands as primitive and backward.
“Colonialism is the reason why people can’t feed themselves.“
Lappe Moore
It is defined as an organization set up by the government to regulate the buying and
selling of a certain commodity such as coffee, cotton, and cocoa within a special area
MARKETING BOARDS
was the preferred colonial technique to force Africans to grow cash crops. The
Colonial administrations simply put taxes on cattle, land, houses, and even to the people
themselves
Taxation
The second approach was direct takeover of the land either by the colonizing government
or by private foreign interests. Some farmers were forced to work in plantations fields
through either enslavement or economic coercion.
PLANTATIONS
is a large geographic zone, there’s division of labor, exchanging of
basic goods, and there is a flow of capital and labor
WORLD ECONOMY
is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of
production and their operation for profit.
CAPITALISM
World System Theory
by Immanuel Wallerstein
WORLD SYSTEM THEORY CONSISTING OF THREE LEVEL HIERARCHY
CORE, SEMI PERIPHERY AND PERIPHERY
