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 framework1.Current Events discussion – focus on connections2.Social cleavages3.Read Political Development sheet.

• ID – characteristics and causes and results – biases in definition4.Questions from homework?5.Identify a key definition of globalization explain the usefulness and limitations of your definition.

• 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

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Social cleavages etcSocial 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 developmentPolitical developmentPalmer – “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 values1. Sometimes focus on national economic growth is mistaken for

improved quality of life2. Uniform standard for comparing states with a stable criteria3. 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

GlobalizationGlobalization

- 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 issuesGlobalization big issues1. Interconnectedness leads to

interconnected problems like SARS, AIDS, economic decline like the 1997 Asia crisis

2. One policy in one country affects others – affecting sovereignty in both

3. Weakening of national governments

4. Nationalism and protectionism slows globalization

5. Multi-national Corporations work in countries but outside their laws and oversight

6. Internal and international inequality lead to relative deprivation leading to anomic violent behavior (Basqueland, Chiapas, Ogoni in Nigeria)

7. Regionalism within countries leads to cumulative cleavages

8. Urbanization9. Environmental problems10. Gender problems11. Race-to-the-bottom12. Partially exclusive economic

game, where the benefits accrue to those “teams” who have access to the best stuff

13. States have difficulty controlling unwanted information and products (i.e. terrorism tools and drugs)

14. Movement of people and “accoutrement” (brain drain, job competition, refugees)

15. Multi-layered loyalties including global citizenship and civil society

16. Little global democracy – elite- governed along Zakaria’s ideas.

17. Spreading of post-materialist values to materialist countries

Agents of each S-F functionsAgents 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