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Review Sheet for Global Society Midterm I

For the mid-term exam, you should be able to define and discuss the following terms.


Definitions of globalization

Nation-state sociology

Globalists

Traditionalists

Transformationalists

Interpenetration

Global infrastructure

Regionalization

Clash of Civilizations

Cold War

Triumphalists

Western liberal teleology

East versus West

“Western Civil War”

Desecularization

fundamentalism

Ethnocentrism

Blaming the victim

World System Theory (WST)

World empires

World economies

Strong states

Core countries

Periphery

Semi-periphery

Jihad

Desecularization

Racialization

Retribalization

McWorld

Homogenization

Global capitalism

International Telegraph Union

Universal Postal Union

International Meteorological Organization

Esperanto

Metric system

Transnational Capitalist Class

Culture-ideology of consumerism

Shopping malls

David Held

Samuel Huntington

Immanuel Wallerstein

Benjamin Barber

E.J. Hobsbawm

Leslie Sklair

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