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Sociology 4260/5260 Globalization :: spring 2014
For exam 1 on Monday Februrary 24 you should be able to define and discuss the following terms, from sections I. Introduction - III. Economic Globalization (ending with the Robert Hunter Wade Article).
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
“The True Clash of Civilizations”
“The Clash of Ignorance”
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
Hybridity
“Global flows”
“Market fundamentalism”
Social and private returns
National inequality
International inequality
David Held
Samuel Huntington
Immanuel Wallerstein
Benjamin Barber
E.J. Hobsbawm
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Leslie Sklair
Peter Martin
Martin Wolf
Kenichi Ohmae
Region-states
Global logic
Pierre Bourdieu
Joseph Stiglitz
Robert Hunter Wade

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