FEM 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anthony Giddens, Periphery Countries, Trans-Cultural Diffusion

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2109
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Worldwide integration of government, policies, cultures, social movements, media, technology, and financial markets through trade and exchange ideas. Term emerged in 1990"s and gained traction in the new millennium (2000"s) Traditional globalization manly looks at macro level issues (larger institutions) New globalization tends to look also at the micro (smaller aspects of everyday life) Characterized by democratization, cultural diffusion, regional and wider armed conflicts, militarization, terrorism, and widening disparities between nations and within nations. Democratization: spread of western ideals of democracy. Cultural diffusion: spread of culture across globe. Regional and wider armed conflicts: drc, sudan, syria. Widening disparities between nations and within nations: growing inequality between haves and have nots within nations both developed and developing. Also keep migration in mind*: increase in refugees (syria) and the ways in which particular nation states have responded. We don"t necessarily have only two different types of classes. Wallerstein divides the world into three categories (core, semi-periphery, and periphery regions)