Globalization and Contemporary
Issues in World History
Psychology
• Content to Know p. 75 - 6.I.B. new scientific
paradigms transformed human
understanding of the world
• Shift toward more scientific approach
Green Revolution
• 6.I.C.
• *1960s
• Technologies that led to significantly higher
agricultural yields
Polio vaccine
• 6.I.D. medical
innovations
increased the
ability of humans to
survive
• 1950s
Heart disease
• 6.1.III.A. diseases associated with changing
lifestyles
Multinational corporations
Coca-Cola
• 6.3.E. Multinational corporations began to
challenge state authority and autonomy
• 6.3.II.E. movements throughout the world
protested the inequality of environmental
and economic consequences of global
integration
Globalization
• Definition: “Intensification of contacts among
all major parts of the world, such that larger
influences play a growing role in human life,
from trade to culture to physical well-being”
• Have much deeper local effects than previous
levels of contact
• Is this good or bad: Economically?
Environmentally? Culturally? Pathologically?
Cultural Imperialism
Asian “McRice Burger”
McDonald’s in India: where’s the beef?