SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: World-Systems Theory, Dependency Theory, Subsistence Agriculture

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Kandrack Mary- Anne

Document Summary

Not all nations around the world are equal. United nations prove this: some nations have veto power. Some regions in canada have more power than others. Western fashion - dominant on global scale. Only small pockets of groups live outside global capitalist system. World system - founded on capitalist principle: world division of labour and system of gratification. Ranking of nation states on global scale: wallenstein - 3 types of nation states - concentric circle. Most powerful and political economies in the world. Can act independent of global governing body. Industrial/semi industrial nations that have some wealth, but more often, economical and politically dependent on core nations. Canada - majority of out food is imported from china. Less developed, poor countries, subject to manipulation/direct control by core states. Imperialism - political and economic control of one state over the other.