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Critics of globalization address how international trade creates inequality and induces class differences in the international global system. Reflecting these thoughts, this paper examines the effects of economic globalization, international trade, and neoliberal-oriented economic policies on cementing class differences in Peru. Through a qualitative assessment of various international trade agreements, Peru's membership in the regional trade bloc, and the continuing flow of foreign investment into Peru's textile and natural resource industries, I determine that the so-called "benefits" of economic globalization have yet to reach the Peruvian socio-economic minority and have instead helped in maintaining the class differences in this South American state.

Two tasks were designed to probe the knowledge that middle class and working class ten year olds have of the logical and semantic connections between questions and their answers. In the first the children were required to write down questions that could have evoked the `answers' with which they were provided. Compared with their middle class peers, working class boys supplied more questions that could be classified as inappropriate in specifiable ways; differences for girls were much attenuated. In the second task the children had to generate questions that would function to elicit prescribed types of information. Again working class boys were less proficient than middle class boys, with the girls showing fewer differences. The results were interpreted within Bernstein's theoretical framework.