Globalization Theories
This theory divides the world into core, semi-periphery, and periphery nations based on global economic relationships.
What is World Systems Theory?
This organization provides loans and often requires structural adjustment policies.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or World Bank?
This term describes when highly educated professionals migrate from poor to wealthier countries.
What is brain drain?
This farming practice involves growing the same crop repeatedly, often leading to soil depletion.
What is monocropping?
These rights are defined as equal, universal, and inalienable.
What are human rights?
This theory focuses on how global culture spreads through worldwide waves of copying.
What is World Society Theory?
This global organization represents the interests of the world’s largest private enterprises.
What is the World Economic Forum?
A migrant in danger who requires international protection fits this label.
What is a refugee?
This agricultural revolution introduced pesticides, fertilizers, and high-yield seeds.
What is the Green Revolution?
Problems like pollution, climate change, and civil war that cross national borders are called this.
What are transborder problems?
This economic philosophy promotes deregulation, privatization, and free markets.
What is neoliberalism?
This policy package pushes countries to adopt free-trade reforms, privatization, and fiscal discipline.
What is the Washington Consensus?
These communities help immigrants access jobs, housing, and cultural support.
What are ethnic enclaves?
This phrase describes hunger caused not by food shortages but by social and economic systems.
What is a manufactured risk?
This term describes the modern era focused on managing risks created by modernization.
What is reflexive/second modernity?
This type of nation in Wallerstein’s model is the most economically and politically powerful.
What is a core nation?
These zones offer companies tax breaks and reduced regulations to lower production costs.
What are Export Processing Zones (EPZs)?
Money that migrants send back to their families in their home country.
What are remittances?
Throwing away spoiled produce or unsold packaged food is an example of this.
What is food waste?
Lack of sanitation, malnutrition, and contaminated water are major contributors to this global issue.
What is child mortality?
This theory emphasizes that globalization is driven by the economic interests of powerful nations and corporations, often reproducing global inequality.
What is Dependency Theory?
This term describes the removal of trade barriers like tariffs and quotas.
What is trade liberalization?
Migration into these communities reduces stress by offering cultural familiarity and social networks.
What are ethnic enclaves?
Increased consumerism and production have mainly contributed to this environmental issue.
What is overflowing waste in landfills/oceans?
The spread of American brands like McDonald's and Starbucks reflects this cultural process.
What is Americanization?