Liberal Studies Final

True or False: Scholars from social sciences generally agree on the cause, scale, and impact of global

False

What measures are included in neoliberal?

Privatization, deregulation, trade liberalization, austerity, labor market flexibility, tax cuts, reducing the role of the state, and financial liberalization.

Who were neoliberal policies enacted by?

Governments in the late 20th century, international financial institutions, supranational bodies and trade organizations, economistsand think tanks promoting economic liberalization.

The biggest leap in the history of globalization occurred in:

the late 20th century

Economic globalization refers to:

the increasing integration and interdependence of national economies throughtrade, investment, and capital flows.

True or False: While disagreeing on whether its a good or bad thing, pessimistic and optimistic globalizers agree that globalization is making people around the world more alike

True

The globalization of languages is an example of:

Cultural globalization

True or false: The 200 largest transnational corporations account for over half of the world’s industrial output.

True

Which term describes the age when human activity has become the dominant influence on Earth’s climate and environment?

Anthropocene epoch

In order to maintain their command in the global marketplace, transnational corporations tend to:

outsource production, invest heavily with technology and innovation, influence trade policies and regulations to maximize profits and efficiency.

Which of the following aspects of social life are described as having an effect on the

Earth’s environment?

social, economic, and political factors

What approach contends that Neoliberalism produces global crises, that market-driven globalization has increased worldwide disparities in wealth and wellbeing, and that democratic participation is essential in solving global problems?

the justice globalism approach

_____________________ globalization refers to the global movement of objects—in particular traded commodities—as well as those ubiquitous early objects of financial exchange such as shells, coins, and notes.

Material/Commodity

_____________________ globalization is characterized by the extension of social

relations through the movement of immaterial things and processes, including words, images, and electronic texts, and encoded capital such as crypto-currencies.

Digital

_____________________ globalization involves the movement of people across our planet.

Embodied

_____________________ globalization corresponds to the global extension of social and political institutions such as empires, states, corporations, NGOs, clubs, and so on.

Agency-extended

What are some the defining features of globalization?

Increased interconnectedness, compression of time and space, global flows, and intensification of social relations

What are some of the social forms that are apart of globalization? (6 in total)

Economical, cutural, political, technological, environmental, and social and demographic globalization

What are the 5 stages of history apart of globalization?

Prehistoric, Pre-modern, Early Modern, Modern, and Contemporary globalization

Neoliberalism

A political and economic ideology that emerged prominently in the late 20th century that emphasizes free markets, deregulation, and minimal government intervention

What are global markets?

Global markets is a system where goods, services, and labor are exchanged across national borders, encompassing a vast network of buyers and sellers worldwide

What is the importance of global markets to globalization?

They provide the infrastructure and framework for interconnected trade, investment, and cultural exchange across borders

What are transnational corporations?

A company that operates in multiple countries often with a headquarters in one country and subsidiaries or branches in others

How are global markets and tranational corporations connected to one another?

Thought several key mechanisms such as being the primary drivers of globalization, international trade, investment, and the movement of capital, labor and technology

What are some critiques of globalization?

Economic inequality, loss of sovereignty, harms the environment, and cultural homogenization

What are the impacts of globalization on the Earth’s climate and environment?

Increased greenhouse gas emissions, deforestations, and habitat destruction

Home

A fundamental and universal concept that has multiple associated and layered meanings for different people in a great range of circumstances

What are some concepts of home? (6)

• Dwellings

• Identity

• Sense of belonging

• Physical space

• Emotional

• Objects

What is homelessness as defined by Michael Fox?

Broken up into 4 categories:

• People who chronically have no home

• People who no longer have a place to call home because of circumstances

• Migrants who have multiple homes

• Spirtually homeless

What is colonization?

A powerful force that has shaped the politics of home, land and belonging, particularly thought themese of displacement, dispossession and cultural erasure

How is colonization mentioned in the book?

• The displacing of people from their land

• Replacing cultural systems with foreign ideologies

• Damaging personal and collective identities

What are some critiques of nature?

• Home and the Environment

• Displacement and Nature

• Cultural Perspective of Nature

What are some critiques of cities?

• Poverty

• Overcrowding

• Increase in violence

What are some critiques of home?

• Home as an “essentially contested concept”

• The “X-Factor” of Home

• Home as a Site of Alientation

• Gendered Perspective of Home

• The Political Dimensions of Home

What is material culture studies?

The impact of objects on our lives going much further, specifically looking at the relationship between people and their things

What are examples of architecture?

• Vernacular architecture (Paul Oliver)

• American Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright)

• Organic Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright)

• Gender-Specific Architecture (Eman Abderlrahmn Farrah and Björn Klarqvist)

What are some examples of decor?

Interior decor

What are some reflections of home?

• Nesting, as quoted from psychiatrist James Yandell

• Emotional connections

• Personal history

• The actual space

What are some examples of reinforcing gender differences when it comes to home?

Rooms in the household:

• Men: Smoke rooms, office, den

• Women: Powder room, laundry room, nursery

What are some gender standards that come from both male and female in the household?

Men: breadwinners, at work

Women: Homegiver, caretaker

What are politics concerning the household?

Home politics affects anyone who lives with other people because transforming a space into a home involves negotiations of various sorts

What are some critiques to capitalism?

• Alienating workers

• “McJobs”

• Inequality and Power Dynamics

• Work as a source of meaning

What are some developments for capitalism?

• Theory X and Theory Y

• Different types of economies

• Visible vs. Invisible work

What are the social identities for work?

• Welfare ethic

• Overwork ethic

• Leisure ethic

• Work smarter, not harder

What are some distinctions between job and workforce?

Jobs:

• “McJobs”

• Scripted

• Low skilled

Workforce:

• Unions

• Women> Men

• High skilled

What are some approaches to running or managing workplace environments?

• Indiosyncratic Deals

• Fordism- assembly lines

• Domestic Labor

What are some emotions at work?

• Humor

• Informality amongst coworkers

What are the steps to colonization? 

Exploration, expropriation, appropriation, exploitation, and justification