Exam Final
For Kottak’s Chapter 10 and lectures, The Modern World System:
-world systems theory: identifiable social system based on power and wealth differentials and it extends beyond individual countries.
-core: geographic center (most dominant position in the world system) includes strongest, powerful, most advanced industrial nations.
-semi-periphery: (between the core and periphery nations) industrialized- export both industrial goods and commodities but lack power and economic dominance of core nations.
-periphery nations: (world’s least privileged and powerful countries) economic activities are less mechanized than the other categories; produces raw materials, agricultural commodities, and human labor.
Sidney Mintz’s work on sugar cane plantations and how sugar cane plantations were related to the emergence of the modern world system and the Industrial Revolution:
-Sugarcane was originally domesticated in Papa New Guinea and processed in India. Then it was carried to the new world by Columbus. The climate of Brazil and the Caribbean were ideal environments to grow sugarcane so the Europeans built plantations there to supply the growing demand. This led to the development of a system known as monocrop production. This fueled the growth of the world system.
Causes of the Industrial Revolution: began with cotton products, iron, and pottery (widely used goods whose manufacture could be broken down simply) when manufacturing moved from homes to factories, agrarian societies evolved into industrial ones.
Note the social and cultural changes caused by the shift from feudal agriculture and cottage industries to capitalism and industrial production in factories: english national income tripled and then later increased 30 times more. factory owners first had high wages but then started hiring people from low living standards. filth and smoke polluted industrial cities. housing was crowded and unsanitary with insufficient water and sewage disposal facilities-
-world systems theory: identifiable social system based on power and wealth differentials and it extends beyond individual countries.
-core: geographic center (most dominant position in the world system) includes strongest, powerful, most advanced industrial nations.
-semi-periphery: (between the core and periphery nations) industrialized- export both industrial goods and commodities but lack power and economic dominance of core nations.
-periphery nations: (world’s least privileged and powerful countries) economic activities are less mechanized than the other categories; produces raw materials, agricultural commodities, and human labor.
Sidney Mintz’s work on sugar cane plantations and how sugar cane plantations were related to the emergence of the modern world system and the Industrial Revolution:
-Sugarcane was originally domesticated in Papa New Guinea and processed in India. Then it was carried to the new world by Columbus. The climate of Brazil and the Caribbean were ideal environments to grow sugarcane so the Europeans built plantations there to supply the growing demand. This led to the development of a system known as monocrop production. This fueled the growth of the world system.
Causes of the Industrial Revolution: began with cotton products, iron, and pottery (widely used goods whose manufacture could be broken down simply) when manufacturing moved from homes to factories, agrarian societies evolved into industrial ones.
Note the social and cultural changes caused by the shift from feudal agriculture and cottage industries to capitalism and industrial production in factories: english national income tripled and then later increased 30 times more. factory owners first had high wages but then started hiring people from low living standards. filth and smoke polluted industrial cities. housing was crowded and unsanitary with insufficient water and sewage disposal facilities-