GS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Debt Of Developing Countries, Socalled, World Economic Forum
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Gs101 (steger) chapter 7: ideologies of globalization: market globalism, justice globalism, religious globalisms. Ideologies: powerful systems of widely shared ideas and patterned beliefs that are accepted as truth by significant groups in society. Ideologies help organize complexity of human experiences into fairly simple claims that serve as guide and compass for social and political action. Claims employed to legitimize certain political interests and defend challenge dominant power structures. Ideology connects theory and practice by orienting and organizing human action in accordance with generalized claims and codes of conduct. Globalization operates on an ideological dimension filled with a range of norms, claims, beliefs, and narratives about the phenomenon itself. Globalization: set of social processes of intensifying global interdependence. Globalism: ideologies that endow the concept of globalization with particular values and meanings. 3 types of globalism: compete for adherents around the globe. Market globalism: endows globalization" with free-market norms and neoliberal meanings.