Sociology 211
Social Problems
Fall 2001
Dr. Scott Schaffer

Week 12 Discussion Questions – Globalization Reader, parts III and IV (pp. 109-133, 145-147, 155-211)

Due Date: Tues Nov 20 for both individual and group questions.

Concept Identification: Define the following concepts as they are used by their authors. For each concept, be sure to identify a) the author who discussed it, b) the definition, c) the importance the concept has for the development of the author’s argument or for the study of social problems, and d) any concepts you think are related to that concept and how they’re related from throughout the course. When necessary to clarify where the concept is coming from, the chapter number is in parentheses.

Paradox of tourism (17)
Globalism
Globality
Time-space compression
Disembedding
Market creation (22)
“Profit or guilt” (23)
Microenterprises
Relationship between gender and poverty
Free trade/wage relationship (25)
Globaphobia
“Labour rights are human rights” (27)
Statehood vs. government (28)
National sovereignty (28,29)

Individual Response Questions: For this week, please focus on the following questions:

Part III: (p. 141) Please respond to either question 1 or 2. If you respond to question 1, please take into account what question 4 is asking about the tension between unity and fragmentation of peoples.

Part IV: (p. 191) Please respond to TWO OF questions 2, 3, and 4.

Part V: (p. 240) Please respond to questions 1 and 3.

Group Response Question:

Integrate the issues and concepts discussed in parts III, IV, and V of The Globalization Reader into what you see as a coherent process by which commodities, jobs, trade, capital, and/or culture flow from the United States to other countries in the core, semi-periphery, and periphery. In 25 words or less, how would you characterize this flow? To what extent do you think that there is the possibility of a reciprocal transfer or flow from semi-periphery and periphery countries to the US?