ANTHR 230 - GLOBALIZATION & HUMAN COND. -- MODULE
1 || WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION.
What is globalization? correct answers A process that involves the entire world and results in
making something worldwide in scope.
"refers to transnational connectedness" - Erickson
Globalization has:
1. Economic dimensions (trade, consumption, production)
2. Political dimensions (nation-states, trades, conflict, diplomacy)
3. Cultural dimensions (local cultures, homogenization, multiculturalism)
4. Environmental dimensions (natural resources, climate change [the Anthropocene])
When we approach globalization social-scientifically, what are we interested in? correct answers
- often interested in why issues exist, why things happen, etc.
MANY POSSIBILITIES! ~experiences provide various perspectives~
What is the basic explanation for globalization and the flattened world in Friedman? correct
answers "a tale of technology and geoeconomics"
"Technology" - the internet (Netscape, Napster) etc.
"Geoeconomics"- [Rather than Geopolitics]
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (2005) talks about a metaphor of globalization, playing a
global level playing field -- a trophe. correct answers He presents a short history history of
globalization.
,Globalization 1.0 - 1492-1800:
- Countries: and muscles-resources and imperial conquest
Globalization 2.0 - 1800-2000
- Multinational Companies - markets and labor
Globalization 3.0 - 2000-NOW
- Individuals - empowering individuals globally and leveling the playing field using technology
-- A story of freedom for individuals -- one of the messages of freedom is a double-edged sword.
What are some course of flattening, as mention by Thomas Friedman? correct answers
"Flatterners"
- Collaps of Communist/Socialist Bloc (2nd world)
- Dawn of the Internet (unintended benefits)
- Workflow-software-enabling outsourcing
- Outsourcing
- Off-shoring
- Open-sourcing
- In-sourcing
- Supply-chaining
- Informing
- "THE STEROIDS" --> wireless access, VOI (voice-over-internet)
What is the "ambition gap"? correct answers - Way of thinking about poverty, as seen in the
parable of the "Grasshopper and the Ants".
, = The grasshopper is poor and relies on charity to survive; about the value of hardwork and
discipline -- these are real values.
~ This issue is when this becomes a framework for thinking about the nature of wealth and
poverty in society as we find it.
What is the myth about the ambition gap? correct answers "long ago there were two sorts of
people...."
- the diligent and frugal elite
- lazy rascals
"It came to pass that the former sort accumulated wealth and the latter sort had at last nothing to
sell -- except their own skins. And from this original sin, dates the poverty of the great majority."
While in reality, "in actual history, it is a notorious fact that conquest, enslavement, robbery,
murder, briefly force,... play the greatest part."
*The creation of the gap was "anything but idyllic".*
What is globalization according to Jared Diamond? correct answers Yali's Question - "Why is it
that you have so much and yet we have so little?"
- Contrasts between Europe & the rest of the world: how to explain apparent "different rates of
human development" in different parts of the world".
Diamond's Answer: "discussions of power/classes and social conflict tend to be avoided ... the
key move is to avoid discussion of these, of political or social conflict, in favor of apparently
neutral and impersonal forces."
- These are deterministic schemes rather than historical action and conflict.
Contingencies correct answers things that cause a result or effect of an outcome
1 || WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION.
What is globalization? correct answers A process that involves the entire world and results in
making something worldwide in scope.
"refers to transnational connectedness" - Erickson
Globalization has:
1. Economic dimensions (trade, consumption, production)
2. Political dimensions (nation-states, trades, conflict, diplomacy)
3. Cultural dimensions (local cultures, homogenization, multiculturalism)
4. Environmental dimensions (natural resources, climate change [the Anthropocene])
When we approach globalization social-scientifically, what are we interested in? correct answers
- often interested in why issues exist, why things happen, etc.
MANY POSSIBILITIES! ~experiences provide various perspectives~
What is the basic explanation for globalization and the flattened world in Friedman? correct
answers "a tale of technology and geoeconomics"
"Technology" - the internet (Netscape, Napster) etc.
"Geoeconomics"- [Rather than Geopolitics]
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (2005) talks about a metaphor of globalization, playing a
global level playing field -- a trophe. correct answers He presents a short history history of
globalization.
,Globalization 1.0 - 1492-1800:
- Countries: and muscles-resources and imperial conquest
Globalization 2.0 - 1800-2000
- Multinational Companies - markets and labor
Globalization 3.0 - 2000-NOW
- Individuals - empowering individuals globally and leveling the playing field using technology
-- A story of freedom for individuals -- one of the messages of freedom is a double-edged sword.
What are some course of flattening, as mention by Thomas Friedman? correct answers
"Flatterners"
- Collaps of Communist/Socialist Bloc (2nd world)
- Dawn of the Internet (unintended benefits)
- Workflow-software-enabling outsourcing
- Outsourcing
- Off-shoring
- Open-sourcing
- In-sourcing
- Supply-chaining
- Informing
- "THE STEROIDS" --> wireless access, VOI (voice-over-internet)
What is the "ambition gap"? correct answers - Way of thinking about poverty, as seen in the
parable of the "Grasshopper and the Ants".
, = The grasshopper is poor and relies on charity to survive; about the value of hardwork and
discipline -- these are real values.
~ This issue is when this becomes a framework for thinking about the nature of wealth and
poverty in society as we find it.
What is the myth about the ambition gap? correct answers "long ago there were two sorts of
people...."
- the diligent and frugal elite
- lazy rascals
"It came to pass that the former sort accumulated wealth and the latter sort had at last nothing to
sell -- except their own skins. And from this original sin, dates the poverty of the great majority."
While in reality, "in actual history, it is a notorious fact that conquest, enslavement, robbery,
murder, briefly force,... play the greatest part."
*The creation of the gap was "anything but idyllic".*
What is globalization according to Jared Diamond? correct answers Yali's Question - "Why is it
that you have so much and yet we have so little?"
- Contrasts between Europe & the rest of the world: how to explain apparent "different rates of
human development" in different parts of the world".
Diamond's Answer: "discussions of power/classes and social conflict tend to be avoided ... the
key move is to avoid discussion of these, of political or social conflict, in favor of apparently
neutral and impersonal forces."
- These are deterministic schemes rather than historical action and conflict.
Contingencies correct answers things that cause a result or effect of an outcome
