The beginning of the Industrial Revolution brought many new, exciting inventions into our
lives to simplify our lives and made them more efficient. Such inventions included cares,
household appliances and plants that burn solid waste, such as oil, natural gas, and coal
for fuel. Before the Industrial Revolution, human activities caused very few gases to be released
into the atmosphere, but now, through the burning of fossil fuels, a large population growth and
deforestation, humans are affecting the mixture of gases in the atmosphere, Global Warming.
The earth has a natural “greenhouse effect” which is caused by energy from the sun
controlling the earth’s weather and climate. The problems that have arisen with the greenhouse
effect have occurred due to the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases. The scientists believe
that the increase in greenhouse gas concentration, especially carbon dioxide, is being caused by
the combustion of fossil fuels and other human activities.
Also contributing a significant share of
emissions is the increase in agriculture, deforestation, landfills and industrial production. People
can drive less, or use more efficient cars, smoke less, and buy more energy efficient appliances.
Global warming is a problem, and it won’t go away without cooperation of the world and it’s
inhabitants. The beginning of the Industrial Revolution brought many new, exciting inventions into our
lives to simplify our lives and made them more efficient. Such inventions included cares,
household appliances and plants that burn solid waste, fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal
for fuel.
Before the Industrial Revolution, human activities caused very few gases to be released
into the atmosphere, but now, through the burning of fossil fuels, a large population growth and
deforestation, humans are affecting the mixture of gases in the atmosphere, Global Warming.
The earth has a natural “greenhouse effect” which is caused by energy from the sun
controlling the earth’s weather and climate. The problems that have arisen with the greenhouse
effect have occurred due to the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases. The scientists believe
that the increase in greenhouse gas concentration, especially carbon dioxide, is being caused by
the combustion of fossil fuels and other human activities. Also contributing a significant share of
emissions is the increase in agriculture, deforestation, landfills and industrial production.
People
can drive less, or use more efficient cars, smoke less, and buy more energy efficient appliances.
Global warming is a problem, and it won’t go away without cooperation of the world and it’s
inhabitants. 2
SOCIOLOGY
BRENDA SLACK
FEBRUARY 24, 2003
ARS HAD
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In today’s society everything we do and have requires
capital.
The dependency theory tends to stress the external
factors to the relatively negligence of internal factors.
It
tends to overgeneralize about the underdeveloped world
and treat underdeveloped societies as if they are all
essentially alike, ignoring differences among societies
involving such things as population size, geography,
political structure and class structure. The poverty of the
less developed world is the product of their own dependent
relations with developed societies. It is possible that
dependency could have worsened poverty in some cases.
The world today is essentially a capitalist world. The
capitalist world has developed in an extremely uneven
fashion; those societies that, have advantages that give them
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a favorable starting position have been able to improve that
position, and those that had unfavorable starting positions
have often ended up much more favorable.
Although the
less developed countries are developing relative to their
own past, the vast majority will never catch up with the
developed countries. IF you live in an area where raw
material is not sought after, you may not attract as much
interest from other states. As in the movie Tu rumba, their
raw material was limited. The vast majority of their money
came from the goods they made and sold.
It was only when
they had a very large order, export, for the dolls that they
made even more money. This could be said to be bad faith. It
was not a necessity for them to sell more dolls, they had
made it thus far on the income they had.
As these societies industrialized, their occupational
structures have changed drastically. More and more people
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are required to spend long periods of time in school in
order to acquire the things needed to do increasingly
demanding work. Another social inadequacy is the basic
skills in literacy.
The branches with the worst performance
records were those in which a disproportionately high
number of employees were attending educational programs
after working long hours. There was also evidence that
performance was worst in precisely those branches in which
the managers stressed education has become an
increasingly important part of the lives of different
societies. It is in our society that education becomes the
vehicle for creating citizens.
The United states is very patriotic where hegemony is
concerned.
We believe in our country, but the disadvantage
to this may be we are a little conceited.
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We are a core society. We dominate world-economy and
concentrate on the production of the most advanced goods
using the most advanced technologies and best employee
wage. Within this core we find the strongest states and
military.
We developed science earlier. We use control
over means of economic production and our superior
political and military power to dominate and exploit the
periphery countries. The periphery countries are the least
developed. They use outdated technologies and
concentrate on declining sectors of economic production.
The periphery countries concentrate on the production of
raw materials and forced labor. The United States has much
prestige, but it is obvious to everyone that this is slipping.
The United States is not feared politically and military as it
once was. A hegemony always has rivals and these rivals do
their utmost to undercut hegemony’s dominant position. It
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was capitalism not industrialism that really introduced the
modern world. It was capitalism that made industrialism
possible.
The industrialization was the substitution of
machines. The substitution of inanimate for animate sources
of power, the introduction of engines for converting heat
into work, which opened man a new and almost unlimited
supply of energy. The industrial revolution in technology
and one involving the organization of the economy.
The core societies industrialized earliest and fastest
with the periphery societies latest and slowest.
Industrialization was a process of mechanization within
capitalism that occurred to a very great extent because
mechanization increased profit.
As what Berger said, “That society determines what we
do but also what we become.” People that live in a periphery
society learn how to get by on nothing.
It is also restricting
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on how far they can go educationally and how much money
they earn.
In a core society, United states, we have every resource
available to us. We can get the education to become what
ever we wish.
It is very unlikely that the current tendency for the
less developed countries to catch-up with the already
developed countries is possible.
Despite the fact that the
gap in national income between the core and periphery
societies continues to widen. Most less developed
countries have experienced a process of development
relative to their own past. They have developed in absolute
terms even while they have fallen further and further
behind.
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The whole world cannot develop equally.
The whole
world system develops and over time the gap between the
core and the periphery is inevitable and will increase.
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REFERENCES
Social Transformations
Peter Berger
Various films.