Criminal Justice( Cultural Anthropology)Raymond Scupin Pearson/Prentice Hall

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY) Name: Course: Professor Name: (June 05, 2012) The principal elements of Immanuel Wallerstein’s "world-systems theory" World –Systems Analysis normally suggest that the creation of past national lines does not represent a new development. Instead, it represents a historical development. The world economy has been connected intricately since the 16th century. In addition, instead of observing economics as being comparative among nations, this theory tries to explore the world past the division of labor which contributes its economic structure. According to Wallerstein, a global economy normally contains various groups and cultures. These groups practice a lot of religions. Thus, they speak various languages which differ in their daily patterns. However, this does not imply that these groups fail to evolve some similar cultural patterns in what is known as a geoculture. Rather, it means that both political and cultural homogeneity cannot be expected within a world-economy (Scupin, 2008). Actually, the thing which unifies the structure is normally the division of lab...