The Elusive Semiperiphery: A Critical Examination of the Concept Semiperiphery

Terlouw, Kees

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“…Examples of factors that hamper development include colonialism, multinational corporate control of Third World productive modes, the inequities and pernicious economic consequences of unequal exchange (e.g., trade) between Western Europe and the Third World, and the overall impact of global capitalism on Third World production and development (Wallerstein 1974;Chirot and Hall 1982). 3 This strength is primarily economic in nature according to Wallerstein (for models recognizing other dimensions of international strength, see Snyder and Kick 1979;Terlouw 1993). 4 On other domestic dimensions core and semicore characteristics, as well as causal processes, may differ.…”

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“…Their domestic characteristics are a rapidly changing admixture of the core and the periphery (Terlouw 1993;Arrighi and Drangel 1986). The semiperiphery's intermediate position in the world-system results from its economic domination over the periphery, including the exchange of relatively more finished goods for raw materials, coupled with its economic dependence upon the core.…”

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Family and Economic Growth: A World-System Approach and a Cross-National Analysis

Kick¹,

Davis²,

Lehtinen³

et al. 2000

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Family research in sociology has concentrated on the national-level determinants of family structure and process. The approach we propose, in contrast, reverses the causal ordering to consider the effects of family characteristics on national outcomes, especially economic growth. This effort is further stimulated by neglect in the sociology of national development literature, where the plausible impact of the family on economic development has been ignored. The modified world-system perspective that we present links the institution of the family to modernization and the developmental profile of nations. We use cross-national data to test this perspective and demonstrate that the family is a vital, but differential contributor to national development around the world.

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Family and Economic Growth: A World-System Approach and a Cross-National Analysis

Kick¹,

Davis²,

Lehtinen³

et al. 2000

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…While these are functional groups of nations, we also see these as a continuum from the most powerful and wealthy to the least developed countries. We refer to certain nations in each zone but do not base these categorizations on current empirical data; rather we utilize earlier world-system theory conceptualizations such as that of Terlouw (1993) (see Roberts and Grimes 2002).…”

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Splintering South: Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory in a Fragmented Global Climate

Ciplet

Roberts

2017

JWSR

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“…The industrializing countries of the sernicore and semi periphery are potentially upwardly mobile in the world system (So 1990;Wallerstein 1979; Arrighi and Drangel 1986;Terlouw 1993; Burns et al 1997), and as a result, are in many respects undergoing more rapid change than either peripheral or core nations. Prior research has suggested that the dynamics of this process, particularly economic growth, expands the availability of capital for a range of activities that can exploit domestic resources (Rudel 1989).…”

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Theorizing and Rethinking Linkages Between the Natural Environment and the Modern World-System: Deforestation in the Late 20th Century

Burns

Kick

Davis

2003

JWSR

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Building on prior work in world-system analysis and human ecology, we test a macro-level theory that social and demographic causes of deforestation will vary across zones of the modern world-system. Using multivariate regression analysis, we examine models of deforestation over the period 1990-2000. We test for main effects of world-system posmon, two different population variables (urbanization and proportion under working age), and economic development within zone, as well as for the contextual effects of these variables as they operate differently across world-system positions. Our findings indicate that generic models of deforestation need to be qualified, because the particular social factors most closely associated with deforestation tend to vary by position in the global hierarchy. Deforestation at the macro level is best explained by considering effects of socio-demographic processes contextually, in terms of world-system dynamics. We discuss the findings in a more general world-systems and behavioral ecological framework, and suggest the field will be well served with more precise theorizing and closer attention to scope conditions.

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The Elusive Semiperiphery: A Critical Examination of the Concept Semiperiphery

Cited by 26 publications

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Family and Economic Growth: A World-System Approach and a Cross-National Analysis

Family and Economic Growth: A World-System Approach and a Cross-National Analysis

Splintering South: Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory in a Fragmented Global Climate

Theorizing and Rethinking Linkages Between the Natural Environment and the Modern World-System: Deforestation in the Late 20th Century

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