Emily Castner
Writing and Thinking
September 22, 2014
Analysis and Reflection #1
Question one:
Globalization is a part of capitalism which increases the economic market across the globe. The mercantile age, the modern industrial-financial age, and todays electronic age are the three stages of development that globalism has gone through in the last five hundred years.
The mercantile age or the great depression was the first key moment in the history of globalism. The mercantile age happened from 1929 to 1945. In this key moment, during 1935, the social security act was developed. This act was for most sections of industrial and middle class. The act was created because there was a demand for a powerful trade union movement and to bring the …show more content…
The majority of the females worked on the farm. Women are usually deprived of their benefits making the cost of cultivation higher than males because of the lack of land titles. Also, women have less state protection, since men get protection first and the price of the protection. Women working an informal job are also affected by the crises. Females working an informal job tend to work in very small place, with little pay and do not have any benefits.
Microfinance and microcredit are similar in the fact that they both refer to money. Some examples of microfinance are loans, savings, insurance, and money transfers. Microfinance is targeted for poor and low-income people. Making small loans available to poor people is called microcredit.
Loans, savings, insurance, and money transfers are all examples of microfinance. Loans could be hard for women to get, but once they do they can build up their credit, and can get bigger loans and also it becomes easier for women to get loans. Insurance is also another model of microfinance and is hard to receive because of the cost, but if a women can get it, she will be protected from injuries and …show more content…
Women were often defined as victims of particular socio-economic systems. “Defining women primarily in terms of their objects status is what characterizes this particular form of the use of ‘women’ as a category of analysis.”(Mohanty 85)
Respect for difference and cultural relativism are different because respect for difference does not ask how we, as a nation, are responsible for the things that go on in other faraway places. Cultural Relativism is also talking about how other cultures have different views. An example would be if one culture did something that is acceptable, in another culture it might not be acceptable. “We do not stand outside the world; we are part of the world” (Abu-Lughod 94). This quote explains that the things people do, does affect the world that we all live