Thinking about how to expand my final paper and considering my observations, I found a lot of interconnections with the discussions we had in class on the World system theory. The world’s system theory can be traced to the French social historian Fernand Braudel (Kottak 6th edition), it argues that within the global economy, there exists a division of labor. This division of labor separates global regions into parts, the core, the semi-periphery , and the peripheral regions. The central beliefs of the world system are established reflecting on the position, view, and relationship between the core, semi-periphery, and the periphery regions. Although these three regions are geographically different, they do share a similar culture in which they hold high regards to intense labor production and capital-intensive production. The terms “core”, “semi-periphery”, and “periphery” are used to represent the relation and diversity of the participants in international commerce. The core region is more developed, specializing in exporting manufactured goods; and the other periphery and semi - periphery regions who have fewer advances in technology,but they specialize in everything else, including exportation of agricultural, tourism and extractive goods. These areas rely on each other for efficient economical advances in favor of the country, but they are not strictly codependent; the core territory can function and sell on their own, while the semi-peripheral and even more …show more content…
Semi-periphery nations are intermediate between core and the periphery nations, they are the industrializing , mostly capitalist countries and they have organizational characteristics of both, core and periphery countries. They are also often geographically located between core and peripheral