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Module 2
Module 2
Module 2
Let’s Discover
We will now discuss a theory which classified the countries according to classes,
either rich or poor. This theory will provide you perspective on why some countries
become progressive in the process of globalization and why others struggle to keep
up with it.
The World Systems Theory suggests that wealthy countries benefit from other
countries and exploit those countries' citizens. This model recognizes the minimal
benefits that are enjoyed by low status countries in the world system. The theory
originated with sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, who suggested that the way a
country is integrated into the capitalist world system determines how economic
development takes place in that country. In his view, the world economic system is
divided into a hierarchy of three types of countries:
Peripheral countries (e.g., most African countries and low income countries
in South America) are dependent on core countries for capital and are less
industrialized and urbanized. Peripheral countries are usually agrarian, have low
literacy rates and lack consistent Internet access.
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https://www.ig.com/us/news-and-trade-ideas/top-10-largest-economies-in-the-world-190819
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LESSON • The World System Theory 2
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Further Readings:
https://lwww.boundless.com/sociology
https://study.com/academy/lesson/world-systems-theory-core-vs-peripheral-societies
https://web.mit.edu/esd.83/www/notebook/WorldSystem.pdf
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-74336-3_372-1
Bibiliography:
https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/islamicarchaeology
glossary/1282.html
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjb_663304/zwjg_665342/zwbd_665378/t169392
5.shtml__
https://medium.com/@kendallgrace15/periphery-role-in-the-world-systems-theory-
fa5d291cac55
Federman, Mark (2003). McLuhan for managers: New tools for new thinking. Viking
Canada.
UNIT
LESSON
• The Global Village Theory 2
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Let’s Discover
In doing the previous activity, you may have realized that media plays a vital
role to deliver information from one person to another around the globe especially
during a crisis. Our next lesson will be about a theory that states how medium plays a
significant role in creating a global village.
The late Marshall McLuhan, a media and communication theorist, coined the
term “global village” in 1964 to describe the phenomenon of the world’s culture
shrinking and expanding at the same time due to pervasive technological advances
that allow for instantaneous sharing of culture.
Hence, we are no longer alienated from one another but we have created a
global village from which people are well aware of what is going in a community from
another country. It made the world closer to each other through advance technology,
media and internet. We become aware of what is going on around the world with just
one click away. The products, music, movies and news shown in the media carry with
it a culture. So there is a greater possibility that one culture can influence the other
that results to the shrinking of a weaker culture as the superior ones expand.
UNIT
LESSON
• The World System Theory 2
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Mark Federman (2004). What is the meaning of the medium is the message?;
https://individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/article_mediumisthemessage.htm
All the pictures used in the lesson are taken from the web.
Bibliography: