AP Comp Day 15
Goal – to understand globalization and the reciprocal effects it has
with politics, to use the terminology in real world situations, to
understand the US system by using the ST framework
1. Current Events discussion – focus on connections
2. Social cleavages
3. Read Political Development sheet.
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ID – characteristics and causes and results – biases in definition
4. Questions from homework?
5. Identify a key definition of globalization explain the usefulness
and limitations of your definition.
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List the effects of globalization on countries and the world, divide
into economic, political, social/cultural and geographical
List attempted methods implemented to address these effects
Evaluate the effectiveness of these attempted methods
List the current and future issues related to globalization
6. Review glossary terms – any questions or need for further
explanation or example?
7. Groups Discuss STs for U.S. – complete an ST chart for US
Social cleavages etc.
people identify themselves as part of a group based on self-selected traits,
characteristics and factors
When one “group” has a conflict with another, it is a social cleavage
These can be cross-cutting cleavages, like gender or religion in the US.
This means that, regardless of other group identification, this one group trait
leads to conflict across other group traits. Gender for example, regardless if
people are poor, black, Jewish, urban, or immigrant, gender plays a significant
role in social and political conflict.
Other cleavages are cumulative. This means that conflict grows more
intense as more and more cleavages are added together.
•For example, in Northern Ireland, religion, region and wealth all go
together. Catholics are political weaker, their regions where they live
poorer and their families poorer.
•In the US, race, urbanization, poverty, gender all go together to further
exacerbate each of the other cleavages such that black, urban, women
are more likely to be poorer than almost anyone else in the US
Political development
Palmer – “Based on United Nations definition – achievement of stable
democracy that promotes well-being of its citizens in equitable,
humane and environmentally concerned way”
1. Full range of human needs – government must do more than rule –
it needs to promote the economic and social well-being of its citizens
– access to education, healthcare, housing, employment and a
“reasonable distribution of wealth” - post-materialist values
1. Sometimes focus on national economic growth is mistaken for
improved quality of life
2. Uniform standard for comparing states with a stable criteria
3. Raises questions about relations between policies and cultural and
economic context – politics affects and is affected by environment
conditions and this definition allows us to ask questions about
stability w/o democracy, etc.
4. This definition is normative however and is biased in favor of
western standards with the state as the central actor – but states
are losing their monopoly
5. Definition of development, as a process, inevitably leads to the
conclusion that a world government is the goal – but this may not at
all be beneficial if one uses the historical cultural method of analysis
Globalization
- the increasing interdependence of economies, political systems
and societies on a global scale.
-the integration of capital, technology, and information across
national borders, in a way that is creating a single global market,
and, to some degree, a global village.
Globalization big issues
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Interconnectedness leads to
interconnected problems like SARS,
AIDS, economic decline like the
1997 Asia crisis
One policy in one country affects
others – affecting sovereignty in
both
Weakening of national governments
Nationalism and protectionism
slows globalization
Multi-national Corporations work in
countries but outside their laws and
oversight
Internal and international inequality
lead to relative deprivation leading
to anomic violent behavior
(Basqueland, Chiapas, Ogoni in
Nigeria)
Regionalism within countries leads
to cumulative cleavages
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Urbanization
Environmental problems
Gender problems
Race-to-the-bottom
Partially exclusive economic game,
where the benefits accrue to those
“teams” who have access to the
best stuff
States have difficulty controlling
unwanted information and products
(i.e. terrorism tools and drugs)
Movement of people and
“accoutrement” (brain drain, job
competition, refugees)
Multi-layered loyalties including
global citizenship and civil society
Little global democracy – elitegoverned along Zakaria’s ideas.
Spreading of post-materialist values
to materialist countries
Agents of each S-F functions
• Articulation – people, lobbyists, interest groups, politicians,
bureaucrats, corporations
• Aggregation – political parties, executive, lobbyists
• P-m – executive, legislature, lobbyists, bureaucracy
• Implementation – bureaucracy under the executive, judiciary
• System functions
– Socialization – state, parents, schools, religion, peers, mass
media/entertainment, experience with state, workplace/employers
– Communication – individuals and groups (blogs, texting, IM, facebook
etc faxing, e-mail, snailmail,) mass media (newspapers, bloggers, net
sites, TV, Radio), the state
– Recruitment – hiring, elections, asking to run for office, disincentives for
public life