SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spacetime, Core Countries, Walt Whitman Rostow

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Katherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Increasing interconnectedness of people and places as a result of advances in transportation, communication and information technology that cause political, economic, and cultural convergence. Three elements: material: (goods money, people) facilitated by global infrastructure, spatio-temporal: distant events shape local and vice versa, cognitive: (ideas and culture) Countries are held back because they cling to traditional and inefficient attitudes, technologies, and institutions: not using modern science, women should stay in the home, war countries. Flawed as it assumes our way of doing things is the best and exploitation of the poor: world systems theory. E(cid:454)pa(cid:374)sio(cid:374) of mar(cid:454)"s theory: core countries (nw europe, canada, usa, japan) Northwest europe, canada, usa, japan: semi-periphery countries (china, india, brazil, south africa) Moving towards industrialization and economic diversification: periphery countries (latin america, sub-saharan africa) One world market: capitalists: search for raw materials and labor, search for market, money flows back to core countries, world society theory.