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13 Cards in this Set
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Privilege |
unearned social status given without the consent of the individual; ability to ignore the suffering of victims of privilege |
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White Habitus |
social arrangements that make it possible for a white person to live his or her life in a virtually all-white environment, maintained through the creation of mass institutions in the mid-20th century |
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Structured Racism |
ability to privilege whites without overt legal or cultural claims of racial superiority; societal patterns of privilege and subordination |
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Institutional Racism |
racism built in to the foundations of institutions (structured racism showing its face in institutions),built to maintain the white habitus |
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Modernity/ Meritocracy |
cultural and social structure based on meritocratic values (system based on gaining power on merit alone), class race and gender are unimportant in this system |
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Global Civil Society |
taking notions of community we deal with locally and bringing it to a global arena; civil society is the aggregate of non-gov't orgs and institutions that manifest interest and will of citizens |
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Bretton Woods (1944) |
New England town where they held economic conference with the global North after the end of WWII, considered origins of contemporary economic globalization. -US and GB led (John Keynes) -reversed wartime econ policies -created 1) International Monetary Fund, 2) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and 3) The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Ended if 1970's |
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Global Economic Order |
int'l economic system with open trade and stable monetary exchange system |
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World Trade Organization (WTO) |
Supervises in'l trade, makes and enforces rules in the global economy |
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Iternational Monetary Fund (IMF) |
Created to administer the int'l money system, goal was to integrate and deregulate markets around the world (Bretton Woods) |
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Transnational Corporations (TNC) |
powerful firms with subsidiaries in several countries that account for over half of the world's industrial output controlling much of the worlds investment capital, technology, and access to markets ex. Wal-Mart and General Motors |
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Nation-state |
form of political organization in which a group of people who share the same history, traditions or language live in a particular area under one gov't |
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Peace of Westphalia 1648 |
series of peace treaties signed the european wars of religion --> Westphalian Sovereignty which give nation-states autonomy and freedom to rule their own nation without interference from outside powers |
