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Question 2
Giddens:
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world order:
o capitalism is international in its scope, capitalist society
is only a society because it is a nation-state (57)
o capitalist enterprise played a major part in levering
modern social life away from the institutions of the
traditional world (61)
o In pre-modern states, class systems were rarely wholly
(61) economical, in modern states, class relations
became directly incorporated within the framework of
capitalist production (62)
o Spread modern institutions across the world was
originally a western phenomenon (62)
o Tearing away of modernity from traditional orders
(radically, rapidly, globally): through time-space
distanciation, disembedding, and reflexivity (63)
o Globalisation = intensification of worldwide social
relations (64)
o Influence of state in global political order is conditioned
by wealth, but derive their power from their sovereign
capabilities (72)
o Actions between countries sometimes diminishes
individual sovereignty of nations involved, yet by
combining power in other ways, it increases their
Wallerstein
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power relations
o increasing response to popular demands =
democratization nearly universal and level of
demands has steadily risen within each country (261)
o World system remains capitalist world economy, nations
outside the core zone have been structurally unable to
catch up with wealthy countries (263)
o Worldwide upsurge of anti-statism: consequences: social
fears escalated & cant provide quasi-monopoly
transition (263)
Human agency