SOCI 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: International Inequality, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1000
• Professor: terrymurphy

Document Summary

Explore how the world is divided into 3 types of areas: each with a diff role & relationship to global capitalism. Core areas have economic, political, cultural, and military dominance. Core areas are: economically diverse, technologically advanced, have a skilled, educated labour force, act as centres of manufacturing, commerce, and finance, stable, powerful states, have a strong middle class, have an advanced education system. Core areas are reliant on subordinate areas to dominate & exploit. Core areas compete with one another to be able to exploit peripheral areas. Development in core areas is made possible by creating social & economic underdevelopment in peripheral areas, contributing to global inequality. Peripheral areas ha(cid:448)e (cid:449)eak e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)ies & go(cid:448)(cid:859)s that are ofte(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)trolled (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)ore (cid:374)atio(cid:374)s. Semi-peripheral areas combine features of the core and the periphery: they occupy a space that stands between the other two types of areas in global capitalism.