5 Themes Flashcards
Colonialism
Formal establishment of rule over a foreign population
Decolonization
colony gaining control over its territory and establishing a separate government
Asymmetrical warfare
Difference between a superpowers military technology and a lower level technology
Centripetal forces
Forces that promote political unity and reinforce the state structure
Centrifugal forces
Cultural or political forces acting to weaken or divide an existing state
Nation-state
A cultural group with its own fully independent political territory
Nation
A large group of people who share cultural elements and view themselves as a single community
State
Political unit with territorial boundaries and internally governed
Universalizing religion
Attempts to appeal to all people regardless of location or culture
Seculariztion
E siste when people consider themselves to be atheists
Ethnic religion
Identified with an ethnic group
Dialect
Form of language with a specific region
Lingua franca
Third language adopted by people from different cultural croup within a country
Cultural hybridization
Blending of elements of a culture to form a new culture
Cultural nationalism
Defending a cultural system against offensive cultural expression
