SOCA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Oligopoly, Mcdonaldization, Mcworld
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E. g. contrast between north korea & south korea; south korean gov. has greater political, economic, and cultural integration with the outside world, allowing it to produce and export advanced technology like samsung & hyundai whereas north korea remains isolated: economics. Globalization & its discontents: anti globalization & anti americanism: benjamin barber argued that globalization ( mcworld ) was generating an anti globalization reaction, called jihad. (jihad: struggle/striving, e. g. al qaeda network sough to roll back forces of globalization by attacking what they thought symbolized the global reach of american capitalism. Dependency theory: economic underdevelopment as the result of exploitative relations b/w rich & poor countries global inequality should not only focus on poor countries, but should focus on the relationship b/w rich & poor countries: around 1500s, worlds most powerful countries colonized most of the rest of the world, leaving them locked into poverty and prevented them from industrializing, what kept these countries from being poor:
