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jcoop11

Wallerstein on World Systems - 0 views

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  • makes possible analytically sound comparisons between different parts of the world.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is why Wallerstein's theory gained acceptance in the anthropological community. We are interested in making sound cross-cultural comparisons.
    • jcoop11
      jcoop11 on 20 May 07
       
      I may be reading to much into the wording, but do we really want to "compare" cultures. When we talk about comparing cultures, it seems as if we are holding them to a certain standard.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 21 May 07
       
      We are not comparing them to a standard - just trying to see the range of human possibilities - and how humans are interrelated.
  • feudalism
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      Three primary elements characterized feudalism: lords, vassals and fiefs; the structure of feudalism can be seen in how these three elements fit together. A lord was a noble who owned land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief. In exchange for the fief, the vassal would provide military service to the lord. The obligations and relations between lord, vassal and fief form the basis of feudalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal_system
  • switch from feudal obligations to money rents
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  • These impoverished peasants often moved to the cities, providing cheap labor essential for the growth in urban manufacturing
  • Eastern Europe (especially Poland) and Latin America, exhibited characteristics of peripheral regions.
  • In Latin America, the Spanish and Portuguese conquests destroyed indigenous authority structures and replaced them with weak bureaucracies under the control of these European states.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is the most common pattern found in the world simulation, though other forms emerge as well.
  • served as buffers between the core and the peripheries
  • According to Wallerstein, the semi-peripheries were exploited by the core but, as in the case of the American empires of Spain and Portugal, often were exploiters of peripheries themselves. Spain, for example, imported silver and gold from its American colonies, obtained largely through coercive labor practices, but most of this specie went to paying for manufactured goods from core countries such as England and France rather than encouraging the formation of a domestic manufacturing sector.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      nice summary here of the relationship of core, semi-periphery, and periphery
  • Similarly, Protestants, who were often the merchants in Catholic countries, found they were targets of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, a trans-national institution, found the development of capitalism and the strengthening of the state threatening.
  • During this period, workers in Europe experienced a dramatic fall in wages.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is interesting. We often think of this transition as benefitting the people of the Core - but it did not necessarily benefit everybody.
  • This powerful merchant class provided the capital necessary for the industrialization of European core states.
    • elligant35
      elligant35 on 20 May 07
       
      Is the merchant class the first indication of a middle class? If so, then why the fall in wages becasue it seems to me that all they created was a middle man to continously take the wages from the working class that supported the goods that were traded?
  • European states participated in active exploration for the exploitation of new markets.
  • With the independence of the Latin American countries, these areas as well as previously isolated zones in the interior of the American continent entered as peripheral zones in the world economy. Asia and Africa entered the system in the nineteenth century as peripheral zones.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      Expansion of the periphery - this typically represents Round 2 of the World Simulation.
  • the core enriched itself at the expense of the peripheral economies. This, of course, did not mean either that everybody in the periphery became poorer or that all citizens of the core regions became wealthier as a result.
  • Wallerstein asserts that an analysis of the history of the capitalist world system shows that it has brought about a skewed development in which economic and social disparities between sections of the world economy have increased rather than provided prosperity for all.
  • This was the first time that an economic system encompassed much of the world with links that superseded national or other political boundaries
  • Mike Wesch on 17 May 07
     
    Read all of this page & make notes so we can share ideas!
wirth7

Grameen - Home page of Microcredit - 0 views

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  • wirth7 on 28 May 07
     
    tells what a microcredit is and a brief history.
wirth7

War on Poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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poverty

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  • wirth7 on 28 May 07
     
    the history of the war on poverty. when it started and who started it.
jcoop11

Global Healthcare in a Borderless World - 0 views

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healthcare

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  • Since the early 1990s, institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have required state-owned hospitals and clinics in Third World countries to be privatized before loans are considered. Many times those formerly state-owned and -run hospitals were purchased by U.S. and European insurance companies that then introduced U.S. models of managed care, even though the history of healthcare in those countries was vastly different from the systems that had developed in the United States.
  • first systematic study of the relationships between globalization and public health policies.
  • jcoop11 on 29 May 07
     
    " first systematic study of the relationships between globalization and public health policies " The relavence of the article lies in the previous statement. This is a rational look at how we are trying to solve the global healthcare problems.
Aaron Scott

Make Poverty History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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poverty

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  • Aaron Scott on 29 May 07
     
    Another campaign that was maybe too much like Easterly's "Planner" as its members disbanded last year after increasing awareness and pressuring governments to relieve absolute poverty. The campaign was formed from members of trade unions, charities, religious groups, and many celebrities. In the US the campaign was known as the ONE campaign.
  • Aaron Scott on 29 May 07
     
    Another campaign that was maybe too much like Easterly's "Planner" as its members disbanded last year after increasing awareness and pressuring governments to relieve absolute poverty. The campaign was formed from members of trade unions, charities, religious groups, and many celebrities. In the US the campaign was known as the ONE campaign.
elligant35

Economy of the United States information - Search.com - 0 views

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    • elligant35
      elligant35 on 28 May 07
       
      This page has the ecomony of the United States wrapped all in one. It links current policy trends of solving poverty with social issues, buying or consumer trends, history in deficit spending by the government, and the assistance provided by the government. This site talks about the inequalities of the minium wage and other statistics that are linked to global poverty.
drumnman

Wikipedia Deforestation - 0 views

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deforestation

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  • drumnman on 01 Jun 07
     
    History of deforestation
Aaron Scott

Microcredit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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microcredit poverty

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  • Aaron Scott on 27 May 07
     
    Overview of the history of Microcredit, as well as some of the banks and loan organizations that are considered as microfinance institutions. Also has principles of microfinance, as well as sections on strengths and criticisms.
bmoran

Global warming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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globalwarming wiki

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  • bmoran on 28 May 07
     
    Wikipedia's page dedicated to Global Warming... It briefly delves into the history, causes, effects, and some of the potential solutions to this global conundrum.
Ryan Felber

Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 0 views

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  • Ryan Felber on 15 May 07
     
    I love this website. It helped alot on the Geographic Timeline.


Kendall

Child Labor - 0 views

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child labor

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  • Kendall on 27 May 07
     
    We have come a long way in the past 100 years.  But I still don't feel it is good enough, children today have to work to keep their families alive, and they give up their education to do so.
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