INTRODUCTION TO GLOBALIZATION

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    • Contemporary means belonging to or occurring in the present
    • International Studies involves understanding global societies, cultures, languages, and systems of government and their complex relationships
    • Social Sciences deal with individuals, groups, and institutions that make up human society and study various aspects of human behavior and social relationships
    • Studying globalization means understanding the contemporary world
    • Multiculturalism is an intellectual method of understanding reality by studying subject matter from various points of view
    • History
      • The systematic study of the memory of past experiences of humankind as preserved in human records
    • Anthropology
      • The scientific study of humanity and human culture
    • Globalization is a major concept representing all occurrences in the contemporary world
    • International Studies generally refers to the study of major political, economic, social, and cultural issues dominating the international scene
    • International Studies emerged as the world became influenced by globalization and more issues arose covering inter-country relations
    • Sociology
      • The study of individuals, groups, and institutions that make up human society
    • Geography
      • The study of the location and distribution of living things and earth features
    • Globalization is a perspective acknowledging the worldwide process of integration of people, markets, and countries
    • Political Science
      The systematic study of power relations involved in the dynamic interaction of people and their governments
    • History
      The systematic study of the memory of past experience of human kind as it has been preserved in human records
    • Anthropology
      The scientific study of humanity and of human culture
    • IRAN/IRAQ
      fundamentalism vs. national self-interest (return to sharia and anti-Westernism)lism vs. national self-interest (return to sharia and anti-Westernism)
    • Region: Anglo-America
      US hegemonic position
    • Formal Object of a particular science

      The focus that determines how the material object is to be seen; the focus differentiates the different sciences from one another, though they may have the same material object
    • Region: Middle East and North Africa
      Characterized by a predominantly Muslim population
    • Region: Sub-Saharan Africa

      Often called Black Africa
    • Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
      Conflicting international power blocs in Africa and African wars
    • Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
      Unstable governments (authoritarian or 1-party states)
    • Region: Anglo-America
      Strong national identity in both countries
    • Region: Asia
      China embodies inner war between capitalism and communism (threats of greater economic interdependence)
    • Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
      Over 800 languages spoken in the continent
    • Region: Asia
      Conflict between North and South Korea
    • Region: Asia
      Chinese foreign policy of regional hegemony or peaceful coexistence
    • Region: Asia
      Japan’s economic decline; US-Japan relations to avoid massive Japanese rearmament
    • Region: Europe
      Transformation of Germany from expansionist to economic power and integration
    • Region: Asia
      Transitional politics and democratization in Central Asia
    • Region: Europe

      Transition after the collapse of communism
    • Region: Eastern Europe
      East-Central Europe includes Hungary, Poland, etc.; Southeast Europe includes Serbia, Croatia, etc.
    • Region: Eastern Europe

      Balkan wars and aftermath
    • Region: Eastern Europe

      Transitions to market economy
    • Region: Eastern Europe
      Russian foreign policy of neo-imperialism or peaceful coexistence
    • Region: Latin America
      Densely populated region with numerous states and dependencies
    • Material Object of a particular science

      That portion of reality that is being studied
    • Sociology
      The study of individuals, groups, and institutions that make up human society
    • Economics
      The study of how society meets its needs for goods and services and how they are distributed
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