CAPITALIST/INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS
From what earlier system, and where and when, did capitalism first emerge?
What are the five characteristics of feudalism?
What is the class structure of feudalism?
What was the status of merchant towns under feudalism?
What were the novel social characteristics of these merchant towns?
Why were they protected by the landowners?
What impact did feudalism have on agricultural productivity and why?
How did merchant activity develop under feudalism?
What did the states where feudalism collapsed and capitalism emerged have in common?
Why did feudalism collapse where it appeared to work best?
EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN WORLD
What are the two lines of development of the WSYS?
What are the two parts of the WSYS structure?
What are the three zones of the WSYS - characteristics of each zone?
What are external arenas?
Who exploits who in the WSYS and in what way?
Where have most wars occurred in the WSYS?
How much mobility is there between WSYS zones?
What is capitalist deepening and what are the five aspects of capitalist deepening?
What are Kondratieff Waves and Hegemony cycles?
What three countries have been hegemons in the WSYS and approximately when?
In what ways do Core nations collude/cooperate and in what ways do they compete?
What are the four stages in the development of the WSYS?
Why is the gap growing between Core and Periphery and why is this �dangerous?�
DEVELOPMENT & UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN THE WSYS
Why is development/underdevelopment a very important contemporary issue?
What are the two contradictions/gaps produced by capitalist deepening?
What is the general relationship between the market and inequality?
What is the trend in PCGDP ratios between the richest and poorest nations?
What are the key claims of modernization theory, dependency theory, and WSYS theory about underdevelopment?
What are elite complicity, structural distortion, and dependent development?
Why is modernization theory still popular in Core countries?
What are the short and long term effects of Core investment in the Periphery?
What are the main points of Sanderson's "soft dependency theory"?
THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN INSTITUTIONS
How does capitalist deepening affect nonmaterial and material culture of peripheral nations?
What are individualization and universalization?
What are the institutional characteristics of C, SP, and P nations (D of L, productivity, educ, etc.)?
INSTITUTIONS OF MODERNITY
Why does Sanderson say the capitalist revolution is the real divide between pre-modern and modern society?
What is proto-industrialization?
Why was industrialization really "mechanization within capitalism"?
(Rise and fall of the Soviet Union)
Was the Soviet Union a "socialist core" country exploiting its trading partners?
What two factors were the main sources of economic problems leading to collapse?
Why does Sanderson say that socialism is not dead?
(Stratification and mobility)
What are the basic classes in modern capitalist society?
How much class "mobility" is there in modern capitalist society?
(Evolution of the modern state)
What were "absolutism" and the absolute state?
Whose interests were promoted by the absolutist states?
According to Sanderson, why has the modern state expanded so much?
What are the three stages of evolution of parliamentary democracy?
According to Sanderson, who benefits most from democracy and why? (caps or workers)
(Mass education)
How has mass education developed over the last century and a half?
What is the functionalist/meritocratic theory?
What is the labor discipline theory?
What is credential inflation?
What is the connection of education expansion to nation building?
How does Sanderson explain the expansion of education?
(The Scientific Revolution)
How is the growth of "big science" related to the WSYS?
Why do less developed countries try to generate big science?
How did Robert Merton explain the rise of science?
How did Toby Huff explain the rise of science?
What do both of these theories overlook?
How does Sanderson explain the rise of science?
(Post-industrial society)
How did Daniel Bell describe the emergence of post-industrialism?
How does Sanderson respond to the three key claims of Bell's theory?