semi-peripheral

Examples of semi-peripheral in the following topics:

• World-Systems Theory

  • India is an example of a semi-peripheral country -- it is largely dependent on foreign investors for capital, but has a growing technology industry and emerging middle class consumer market.
  • Semi-peripheral countries (e.g., South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, South Africa) are less developed than core nations but more developed than peripheral nations.
  • They are the buffer between core and peripheral countries.
  • Semiperipheral countries exploit peripheral countries, just as core countries exploit both semiperipheral and peripheral countries.
  • Produce a map of the world that shows some countries as core, peripheral, and semi-peripheral according to Wallerstein's theory

• Thinking Globally

  • The world-system refers to the international division of labor, which divides the world into core countries, semi-periphery countries, and the periphery countries.
  • Nonetheless, the system is dynamic, and individual states can gain or lose their core (semi-periphery, periphery) status over time.
  • Dependency theory takes the idea of the international division of labor and states that peripheral countries are not poor because they have not adequately developed, but rather are poor because of the very nature of their relationship with core countries.
  • This relationship is exploitative, as the resources needed by peripheral countries to develop are funneled to core countries.
  • Core countries accumulate wealth by gathering resources from and selling goods back to the periphery and semi-periphery.

• Panic

  • These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur and some moral panics have historically been fueled by religious missions, governmental campaigns, and scientific mobilizing against minority groups that used media outlets to further their claims), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
  • Recent moral panics in the UK have included the ongoing tabloid newspaper campaign against pedophiles, which led to the assault and persecution of a pediatrician by an angry, if semi-literate, mob in August 2000, and that surrounding the murder of James Bulger in Liverpool, England in 1993.

• Global Inequality

  • The world economy is a system divided into a hierarchy of three types of countries: core, semiperipheral, and peripheral.
  • Semiperipheral countries (e.g., South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, South Africa) are less developed than core nations but are more developed than peripheral nations.
  • Peripheral countries (e.g., most African countries and low income countries in South America) are dependent on core countries for capital, and have very little industrialization and urbanization.
  • Semiperipheral countries exploit peripheral countries, just as core countries exploit both semiperipheral and peripheral countries.
  • The wealthy in peripheral countries benefit from the labor of poor workers and from their own economic relations with core country capitalists.

• Colonialism and Neocolonialism

  • The United States is an example of a core country, with immense capital and relatively high wage labor; Mexico is a semiperipheral country, where the economy has grown rapidly and there is significant technology manufacturing, but where most capital still comes from foreign nations; Liberia is an example of a peripheral country, where virtually all investment is foreign and many wage laborers earn less than $1/day.
  • In this theory, the world economic system is divided into a hierarchy of three types of countries: core, semiperipheral, and peripheral.
  • Peripheral countries (e.g., most African countries and low income countries in South America) are dependent on core countries for capital, and have very little industrialization and urbanization.
  • Peripheral countries are usually agrarian and have low literacy rates and lack Internet connection in many areas.
  • Semiperipheral countries (e.g., South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, South Africa) are less developed than core nations but are more developed than peripheral nations.

• Two-mode core-periphery analysis

  • A considerable number of issues are also grouped as "peripheral" in the sense that they attract few donors, and these donors have little in common.
  • We also see (upper right) that core actors do participate to some degree (.179) in peripheral issues.
  • In the lower left, we see that peripheral actors participate somewhat more heavily (.260) in core issues.

• Urban Neighborhoods

  • In Canada and the United States, neighborhoods are often given official or semi-official status through neighborhood associations, neighborhood watches, or block watches.
  • Neighborhood watches are one form of semi-formal neighborhood associations that contribute to the regulation of crime in an area that is not an independent political unit.

• Walks etc.

  • Semi-walks, semi-trails, and semi-paths are the same as for undirected data.

• Stratification

  • In this model nations are divided into core, semiperipheral, and peripheral countries.
  • South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, and South Africa) are less developed than core nations but are more developed than peripheral nations.
  • Peripheral countries (e.g.

• Urban Decline

  • In many countries outside of the West, urban decline manifests as peripheral slums at the outskirts of cities.
  • That being said, urban decline results from some combination of socioeconomic decisions, such as the city's urban planning decisions, the poverty of the local populace, the construction of urban infrastructure (such as freeways, roads, and other elements of transportation), and the depopulation of peripheral lands by suburbanization.