Deck 24: B: Capitalism and Culture the Acceleration of Globalization Since 1945

Question 1

What environmental problems have emerged as a result of human activity?

Answer 1

•Deforestation and soil erosion
•Extinction of certain species of plants and animals
•Air and water pollution
•Hole in the ozone layer
•Global warming

Question 2

What were the major manifestations of what the text calls the globalization of liberation in the world after 1945?

Answer 2

•The civil rights movement in the United States
•opposition to communist regimes in Eastern Europe
•Liberation movements in the third world that sought to free their societies from decrepit Western capitalism and a repressive bureaucratic Soviet communism
•The various feminist movements around the world

Question 3

What criticisms have been made by those who oppose the neoliberal model of globalization?

Answer 3

•The emphasis on free trade and market-driven corporate globalization has
olowered labor standards.
ofostered ecological degradation.
oprevented poor countries from protecting themselves against financial speculation.
oignored local cultures.
odisregarded human rights.
oexacerbated global inequality.
•The interests of large corporations and wealthy countries are prioritized over everything else.

Question 4

What is meant when critics accuse the United States of maintaining an informal empire? How exactly has the United States asserted its influence informally?

Question 5

What specific issues defined the feminist movement in the industrial West after World War II?

Question 6

How have the world's religions responded to the secular challenges of global modernity?

Question 7

Compare and contrast the feminist movements of the nineteenth century and the second half of the twentieth century.

Question 8

What factors drove economic globalization after World War II?