10-1 Social Exam (UNIT 1) Flashcards
The qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or group.
Identity
The principal or habit of or belief in independent thought or action.
Individualism
The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it.
Collectivism
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale .
Globalization
The sharing of ideas and information between and through different countries.
Social Globalization
A point of view.
Perspective
The widespread international movement of goods, capital, services, technology and information.
Economic Globalization
The growth of the worldwide political system, both in size and complexity.
Political Globalization
The phenomenon of the entire world becoming more interconnected as the result of the propagation of media technologies throughout the world.
Global Village
The dependence of two or more people or things on each other.
The idea that two groups depend on each other and both groups benefit.
Interdependence
Consisting of or relating to people of many different nationalities and cultures.
Multicultural
A diversity of different ideas or people.
Pluralistic
The erasing of differences. When this term is applied to people, it often refers to the erasing of cultural differences so that peoples become more and more similar.
Homogenization
Groups and communities that experience discrimination and exclusion because of unequal power relationships across economic, political, social and cultural dimensions.
Marginalization
A process that occurs when the culture of a minority group is absorbed by another culture. The cultural identity of the minority group disappears as its members take on the identity of the other culture.
Assimilation
The process of affirming and promoting people’s individual and collective cultural identity.
Cultural Revitalization
The cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate, or adapt to, each other’s worldviews.
Acculturation
The adoption of policies by separate countries as if they were a single political unit.
Integration
The culture of the people. This term often refers to current cultural trends that are spread by commercial mass media.
Popular Culture
The spread of culture, trends, customs, and practices around the world.
Universalization
The combining of elements of two or more different things to create something new (ex. K-Pop/Korean pop music).
Hybridization of popular culture
The transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations.
Cultural Globalization
(Canada) The promotion of both English and French in education, business, government, and other social institutions.
Official Bilingualism
English-speaking.
Anglophone
