GS101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Exact Sciences, Nationstates, Neoliberalism
Document Summary
Universal, perennial features of human existence are a result of our underlying nature which doesn"t change and cultures, which change. Particular, specific features of human existence are defined by our societies. Both continuity and change (when we think of globalization) As a set of social processes: historical roots of social integration, 3 examples of pre-modern and modern integration. As a subjective experience: change in our consciousness of the human race, historical roots of global imagery. Globalization involves both continuity of earlier social processes and change by emergence of new social processes. Globalization is objective (external, material) and subjective (internal, a consciousness) Modern system of nation-states: culture, politics and territory, the end of the age of empires, treaty of westphalia. Weakening of modern governance: the end of the three worlds. Wwi/wwii emergence of international organizations: e. g. Post-colonial nationalism: national liberation and the emergence of the third world. Cold war (1945-89: political and economic ideologies.
