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WorksheetsPRELIM - THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
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The process of expanding various sociocultural and socioecological processes from national to international and transcultural levels.
Localization
Internationalism
Globalization
Transmigration
It is a measurement of flows and interconnections of a country to other global players through exchanges in trade, capital, people, and information.
International Connectivity Index
Global Connectivity Index
Interconnectivity Index
General Connectivity Index
It is related to the different groups of people in society and their habits, traditions, and beliefs.
Sociocultural
Socioecological
Socioeconomics
None of the above
The interactions among the members of a species, and between them and the environment.
Socioecological
Sociocultural
Socioeconomics
Symbiosis
The social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes
Socioecological
Sociocultural
Socioeconomics
Symbiosis
It is a phenomenon in which financial markets in neighboring, regional, and/or global economies are closely linked together.
Economy
Trade
Financial Integration
Tarriff
The process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold and bought in a country or region.
Tarriff
Westernization
Trade
Financial Integration
The process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold and bought in a country or region.
Tarriff
Economy
Trade
Financial Integration
The action of buying and selling goods and services.
Tarriff
Economy
Trade
Financial Integration
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
Tarriff
Economy
Trade
Financial Integration
It causes (a country, person, or system) to adopt or be influenced by the cultural, economic, or political systems of Europe and North America.
Transnationalization
Internationalization
Westernization
Globalization
The existence of different types of people, who have different beliefs and opinions, within the same society.
Pluralism
Internationalization
Westernization
Globalization
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Pluralism
Capitalism
Westernization
Globalization
Belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
Rationalism
Hybridity
Reflexivity
Tariff
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
Rationalism
Hybridity
Reflexivity
Tariff
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Rationalism
Reflexivity
Hybridity
Capitalism
The economic system that gives freedom to entrepreneurs to control production processes to pursue profit, is just one kind of economic system designed by human societies.
Rationalism
Development Paradigms
The Market Economy
Capitalism
The idea of the prescribed path to attain development through a certain set of activities, according to a defined vision.
Capitalism
Rationalism
Development Paradigms
The Market Economy
A system of nongovernment institutions that operate across geographical borders and organize and mobilized common issues or causes.
IMF
Global Civil Society
Global Corporation
Global Economy
An international organization with 183 member countries that promotes international monetary cooperation and exchange stability.
IMF
Global Civil Society
Global Corporation
Global Economy
Denotes that the economies of various countries are more interconnected from extraction, production distribution, and consumption, to disposal of goods and services.
IMF
Global Civil Society
Global Corporation
Global Economy
It is based on the theory of Wallerstein (1974) that recognizes that social and economic change is not only endogenous to a country but is affected by its interaction with exogenous institutions.
World System
Global Civil Society
Global Corporation
Global Economy
A process of combining or increasing the interconnectivity of national economies to the regional or global economies.
World System
Economic Integration
Global Corporation
Global Economy
This means that separate production operations are functionally related to each other and form a unified product or service.
World System
Economic Globalization
Economic integration
Global Economy
These organizations are critical in developing and pushing for neoliberal policies among different countries. They also help facilitate trade and development discussions among various states.
World System
Economic Development
Economic integration
International Economic Organizations
These organizations promote regional agreements and standards that facilitate better trade and the exchange of knowledge, human resources, and regional cooperation.
World System
Economic Integration
Regional Organizations
International Economic Organizations
They are considered one of the most powerful institutions in the world economy since they can lead economic development, and some authors contend that central bank governors are more influential in their own national economy than some politicians
World System
Central Banks
Regional Organizations
International Economic Organizations
It is seen as either composed of individuals or groups of individuals disadvantaged by the effects of the globalization of the world economy, they protest and seek alternatives to a new world order
Global Civil Society
Central Banks
Regional Organizations
International Economic Organizations
Networks that are “organized to promote causes, principled ideas, and norms, and they often involve individuals advocating policy changes that cannot be easily linked to a rationalist understanding of their “interests.”
Global Civil Society
Transnational Advocacy Networks
Regional Organizations
International Economic Organizations
It is an institutional arrangement of governance that address regional or globalized issues that go beyond the scope of a nation-state.
Global Interstate System
Transnational Advocacy Networks
Regional Organizations
International Economic Organizations
Europe
Most highly globally connected continent
World’s most globally connected country
The Netherlands
Most highly globally connected continent
World’s most globally connected country
Globalism
Puts emphasis on diversity and celebrates multiculturalism
Focuses more on the economic aspect of the exchanges among countries and society.
Internationalism
Puts emphasis on diversity and celebrates multiculturalism
Focuses more on the economic aspect of the exchanges among countries and society.
World Bank
An international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects, established during the Bretton Woods Conference in 1994
Can refer to anything that is not affiliated with, supported by, or connected directly to a sovereign state or one of its governmental organizations, including in international commerce.
Non-state
An international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects, established during the Bretton Woods Conference in 1994
Can refer to anything that is not affiliated with, supported by, or connected directly to a sovereign state or one of its governmental organizations, including in international commerce.
Responsible for global research on medicines and vaccines.
WHO
ICAO
For regulations of international air transport.
ICAO
WIPO
International intellectual property rights standards.
WIPO
ILO
"Glocalization"
“Internal globalization
"External globalization"
GATT = (a)
WTO = (a)
GCI = (a)
GDP = (a)
IMF = (a)
UNESCO = (a)
ILO = (a)
ASEAN
(a)
NAFTA = (a)
ICAO = (a)
1. In your own words, explain what globalization is.
Are you in favor of global free trade? Why and why not?
Discuss at least one of the actors that drive economic globalization.
