SOCI-1015EL Lecture 5: Deff module 5
20 Jun 2018
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Sociology Final Exam
Module 5 — Chapters 9, 16, & 19
Social Exclusion: Manuel Castell’s term for the process by which certain individuals and
groups are systematically barred from access to positions that would enable them to
have an autonomous livelihood in keeping with the social standards and values of given
social context.
Modernization Theory: a perspective that links global inequality to different levels of
economic development and suggests that low-income economies can move to middle-
and high-income economies by achieving self sustained economic growth.
Dependency Theory: The belief that global poverty can at least partially be attribute to
the fact that the low-income countries have been exploited by the high-income
countries.
Core Nations: according to world systems theory, dominant capitalist centres charged
by high levels of industrialization and urbanization.
Semiperipheral Nations: according to world systems theory, nations that are more
developed than peripheral nations but less developed than core nations.
Peripheral Nations: according to world systems theory, nations that are dependent on
core nations for capital, have little or no industrialization (other than what may be
brought in by core nations), and have uneven patterns of urbanization.
Sociology Final Exam
Module 5 — Chapter 16
Cultural Transmission: the process by which children and recent immigrants become
acquainted with the dominant cultural beliefs, values, norms, and accumulated
knowledge of society.
Cultural Capital: Pierre Bourdieu’s term for people’s social assets, including values,
beliefs, attitudes and competencies in language and culture.
Credentialism: a process of social selection in which class advantage and social status
are inked to the possession of academic qualifications.
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Document Summary
Module 5 chapters 9, 16, & 19. Modernization theory: a perspective that links global inequality to different levels of economic development and suggests that low-income economies can move to middle- and high-income economies by achieving self sustained economic growth. Dependency theory: the belief that global poverty can at least partially be attribute to the fact that the low-income countries have been exploited by the high-income countries. Core nations: according to world systems theory, dominant capitalist centres charged by high levels of industrialization and urbanization. Semiperipheral nations: according to world systems theory, nations that are more developed than peripheral nations but less developed than core nations. Peripheral nations: according to world systems theory, nations that are dependent on core nations for capital, have little or no industrialization (other than what may be brought in by core nations), and have uneven patterns of urbanization.
