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SOC 4260 Global Society Exam #1 Review Sheet

The Exam will be in class on Tuesday, February 17


Sociology 4260: Global Society Prof. Gabe Ignatow

Mid-term Exam 1 Review Sheet

Samuel Huntington

“The Clash of Civilizations”

Immanuel Wallerstein

“The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System”

Benjamin Barber

“Jihad vs. McWorld”

Martin Albrow

“Traveling Beyond Local Cultures”

Pico Iyer

“Bali: On Prospero’s Isle/Born in the USA”

E. J. Hobsbawm

“The World Unified”

Leslie Sklair

“Sociology of the Global System”

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

“Globalization as Hybridization”

Geraldo off-line

Peter Martin

“The Moral Case for Globalization”

Martin Wolf “Why this Hatred of the Market?”

Nation-state sociology

Dual citizenship

Transnational corporations

Satellite television

Internet

International non-governmental organizations

Rise of the nation-state

Decline of states

globalists

traditionalists

transformationalists

multinational corporations

global trade

communications technology

diseases

global environmental problems

terrorism

global organized crime

“regionalization” of groups of nations

“triumphalist” scholars

liberal teleology

Western civil wars

World civilizations

Desecularization

Western dominance

World empires

World economies

Core

Periphery

Unequal exchange

Jihad

McWorld

Democracy

Globalism

Globality

Time-space compression

Disembedding

Wandsworth, UK

Transnational Capitalist Class

culture-ideology of consumerism

malls

center-periphery models

global flows

glocalization

Supranational regionalism

Sub-national regionalism

Structural hybridization

Hybrid sites

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