Details Title: Global Ethics Description: midterm! Total Flash Cards: 31 Created: 02/16/2009 21:26:39		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional International Studies Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Appeals of Civilizational Approach Definition -invokes richness of history -gives political analysis new proufndity -mirrors common beliefs that are simplistic -simplifies explanation of global violence -plays to bipolar notion that world is divided between single Western world and non-Western many Term liabilities of civ approach Definition -assumes Cs always clash -assumes Cs always cohorent and cohesive -assumes Cs are basically religion-based -assumes people can be categorized according to one civilizational system -relies onnotions of cultural predestination Term what approach denies Definition -human diversity almost universal -identity partially matter of choice -global identities cut across each other -borders between Cs unstable and moving -religions themselves are hybrids Term authenticity Definition conservative, one path, born with certain identity Term exestentialist Definition liberalism, choose who we are, form your own identity Term authenticity Definition conservative, one path, born with certain identity Term existentialist Definition liberalism, choose who we are, form your own identity Term existentialist Definition liberalism, choose who we are, form your own identity Term Christian fundamentalism Definition -response to modernism/secularism -back to literal belief in "ancient meaning" or scriptural texts Term political christianity Definition -used to push political (right) agenda -christian right is not christian fundamentalism Term political islam Definition -created mainly by political not religious figures -change from reformist to radical agenda result of transition from colonialism to post-colonialism Term sayyid qutb Definition -reformulated "jihad" from struggle over self to struggle over society and state -islam has the right to force to end slavery and realize human freedom -political islam needs to be placed in context of Cold War -radical political tendencies does not equal political tendencies -terrorism= modern political movement for power Term 60's attack on bureaucracy Definition -dismantled govt and corp bureaucracies -instead of producing community, produced fragmentation Term three challenges after 60's attack on bureaucracy Definition time- short term relationships talent- how to measure and maintain accomplishment loss- how to let go of past and re-group Term "cutting edge model" Definition -high technology -global finance -new service firms of 3,000+ Term "fresh page argument" Definition Weber -civil society modeled as a military system operating like an army where everyone has a place and function Term liquid modernity Definition -consumption influences progressive politics -need to keep up Term military social capitalism Definition -organized around incremental time -lives turned into narratives with stages -individual agency associated with ability to plan -globalization deconstructs the militarization of social time -relationships replaced by transaction (George Soros) Term social capitalism Definition -hierarchy, chain of command -power pyramidal -life=iron cage, but provides home, security Term Uncaged, 3 changes Definition -powershifts: managerial to shareholder -capital becomes impatient: long to short term gain -new technologies of communication and manufacturing emerge Term MP3 institutional architecture Definition casualization: programmed to play selectively delayering: utilize only a few functions non-linear sequencing: in any order -centralize power panoptically -winner takes all -produces anxiety rahter than dread -inequality widens Term 3 causes of uselessness Definition -global labor supply: race to the bottom -automation: machines -management of ageing: prejudice against age Term meritocracy Definition talent is linked with personal worht and creative or intelligent means superior Term measuring potential Definition -emphasizes SAT knowledge and problem solving -accentuates ability to think "outside of the box" -cuts links to experience, precedent, sensate impressions Term platform construction Definition basic object on which minor changes imposed to convert it into a new brand Term gold-plating Definition to sell a standardized thing, magnify the value of minor differences so that surface is what counts Term naturalizing race Definition -abetted by Atlantic Slave Trade -places people "outside" history/civilization -construes the outsider as genetically inferior -reinforces ideas of human evolution, survival of the fittest, Social Darwinism Term hanan Definition emotional quality found among aunts, grandmothers unconditional tenderness Term hudud Definition boundaries, frontiers Term krishna Definition -another kind of male -shuns authority, power, order -bored by rules -thinks most humans are responsible -allows wife to get away with no housework Term ashmahan-singing princess Definition -self-indulgent -turns her back on arab culture -adventure, romance, bliss