Module 8. Due April 23
Please read chapter 23, titled “Capitalism and Culture.”
Similar to the previous chapters, respond to 3 of the sidebar or big picture questions, or to questions about the images or documents in this chapter. Each response should be approximately 200 words and must show evidence of having personally read the chapter. Post your 3 responses to your blog.
After the due date, go back and make thoughtful comments on at least 2 other students’ blog posts.
For your convenience, the sidebar and big picture questions from this chapter are copied below. Remember, you only have to respond to three of them!
1) To what extent has globalization fostered converging values and common interests among the world’s peoples? In what ways has it generated new conflicts among them?
2) What factors contributed to economic globalization in the second half of the twentieth century?
3) In what ways has economic globalization more closely linked the world’s peoples?
4) Study the image titled “Globalization in Action: Foreign Direct Investment in the Late Twentieth Century” on page 1027. Reflect on ways in which the information conveyed by this image could have both stabilizing and a destabilizing effect on world peace and cooperation.
5) What new or sharper divisions has economic globalization generated?
6) Study the Snapshot titled “Global Development and Inequality, 2011” on page 1031. What trends stand out to you? If you were having a small group discussion in a classroom setting, what would your contributions to the conversation be?
7) What is the role of the United States of America on the global stage of the 21stcentury? Is the America you live in today consistent with the America Strayer describes in this chapter?
8) What distinguished feminism in the industrialized countries from that in the Global South?
9) In what respect did the various religious fundamentalisms of the twentieth century express hostility to global modernity?
10) From what sources did Islamic renewal movements derive?
11) In what ways did Islamic renewal express itself?
12) What can Barbie, Sara and Fulla (or Dara, depending on your version of the textbook) tell us about the globalized world of the twenty first century? What different values and sensibilities do they convey?
13) How might you compare feminism and fundamentalism as global movements? In what ways did they challenge earlier values and expectations? To what extent were they in conflict with one another?
14) how can we explain the dramatic increase in the human impact on the environment in the twentieth century?
15) What differences emerged between environmentalism in the Global North and that in the Global South?
16) Watch, summarize and reflect on the video linked below, putting it in its historical context.
17) Read the Zooming In segment titled “Rachel Carson, Pioneer of Environmentalism” on page 1058. In what larger contexts might we understand Rachel Carson and the book that gained her such attention? If you have read Silent Spring, bring your insights from that reading into your response.
18) In what ways did the Global North/South divide find expression in the past century?
19) What have been the benefits and drawbacks of globalization since 1945?
20) Do the years since 1914 confirm or undermine Enlightenment predictions about the future of humankind?
21) “The most recent century marks the end of the era of Western dominance in world history.” What evidence might support this statement? What evidence might contradict it?
22) To what extent did the various liberation movements of the past century – communism, nationalism, democracy, feminism, internationalism – achieve their goals?
23) To what extent did the processes discussed in this chapter (globalization, feminism, fundamentalism, environmentalism) have roots in the more distant past? In what respects did they represent something new in the past century?
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