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LESSON 2
Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson, you
should be able to:
define economic globalization;
narrate short story of global market integration in the 20th centurty; and
Immanuel
Wallerstein's
theorization of globalization
For Wallerstein, a world constitutes a
social system composed of
boundaries, structures, member
groups, rules of legitimation and
coherence (Wallerstein, 2011).
What is the Modern World System?
Immanuel
Wallerstein's
theorization of globalization
World economy, according to
Wallerstein (2011), is divided into core
states and peripheral areas including
semi - periherals.
World-Systems Theory