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| when nations are systematically ranked in a hierarchy on the vasis of their access to wealth, status and prestige. |
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Have advanced industrial economies and high living standards
ex:European coutries,U.S. Canada |
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newly industrialized and have resourses that provide them a moderate amount of the world's wealth and income
ex:Latin american countries |
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Poor, agrarian, and benefit least from participation in global economy
ex:afganistan, pakistan, bangladesh |
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| females looking for a husband in a good social class |
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Functionalist Approach:
Modernization theory |
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| societies with advanced productive technology help poor nations advance. Poor nations blamed for holding on to traditional values. |
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| An economic/political system where powerful nations dominate and exploit weaker nations through trade relations. |
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| coined by J.G. Herder in late 1770's. An idea linking an ethnic group with a state and territory. Associated with the Romantic MOvement. |
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| promoted belief that one race was superior to all others. Early racist theorists ranked races in hierarchies. White Europeans were always at top, but these theorists assumed racial dominance was not assured (it must be fought for) |
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-when 1 state controls, exploits and dominates another state or territory economically, culturally, and through claiming territory.
-Think of empires (like Roman, Ottoman, Spanish, British) where one state dominated other areas and peoples. colonized people don't have equal rights.
-Human life becomes cheaper under imperialism- dominated people seen as less valuable, dispensable, even not human. |
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Rich industrialized nations keep poor countries from advancing by maintaining three forms of dependency.
-Trade
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-industry |
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| World Systems theory (walterstein) |
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| while culturally distinct, all nations are part of a worldwide division of labor and unequal political relationships that reproduces global inequality. |
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| Transnational corporations |
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| own companise all over the world and benefit from the laws and economic structures of different countries. |
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| Global assembly line example |
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-develop product in the U.S.
-U.S raw materials from low-income nations
-Assembly product in Taiwan
-corporate base in the Bahamas (tax benefit) |
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