Does anyone know what it is meant by "world system"??

Question

Does anyone know what it is meant by "world system"??

Answer 1

it means that the governments will get together and control everything!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Go through the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-syste...

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=w...

Answer 3

It would depend on the context.  In terms of international politics, it describes the system of power relations - which countries are powerful, in what ways, which countries and/or organizations can throw their weight around to get things done their way, who is driving the international agenda, etc.  This is sometimes important in discussions of activist anthropology, indigenous politics, anthropology of war, and human rights debates.

Answer 4

totalitarianism and universalism

Answer 5

It is a theoretical perspective developed mainly by professor I. Wallerstein. According to him the World System (WS) is "a social system, one that has boundaries, structures, member groups, rules of legitimation, and coherence. Its life is made up of the conflicting forces which hold it together by tension and tear it apart as each group seeks eternally to remold it to its advantate. It has the characteristics of an organism, in that is has a life- span over which its characteristics change in some respects and remain stable in others. Life within it is largely self-contained, and the dynamics of its development are largely internal" (Wallerstein 1974: 347). WS argues among other things that the world's economic system is divided into core (mainly western countries), semi-periphery and the periphery. The World System perspective has a Marxist leaning and argues that the core developed at the expense of the periphery.

Answer 6

In the Metta Powana (Loving-kindness meditation) of the Buddhist Faith, 'world system' is mentioned as the interaction of all living things with all other living things. (including plant life).