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6 Cards in this Set
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Introduction |
World system primary unit of analysis, world history and social change = divisions of labour; 3 peripheries; Immanuel Wallerstein & Marxism |
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Core Nations |
Most economically prosperous; most powerful; forefront technological advances; strong bourgeois and working classes; influence |
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Semi-Peripheral |
Midway bet. core and periphery; strive for industralisation and diversified economies; exports to peripheral nations and import from core; not dominant in international trade |
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Peripheral |
Weak economically; weak governments; export raw materials to core nations; multinational corporations from core nations tend to exploit unskilled labour from peripheral; small bourgeois and large peasant class; influenced by core nations |
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4th paragraph |
Proponents of world systems theory see the world same way Marx saw class; Wallerstein defines world system as capitalist in nature (unequal development); world history has produced social change we see today (feudalism > capitalism, capitalism = impact) |
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Conclusion |
World system as primary unit of analysis; 3 peripheries; world history |
