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
Cultural imperialism
Promotion of one cultural system over another
Urbanized population
Percentage of a country’s people who live in the cities
Push forces
Conditions that drive people away from a location
Pull forces
Favorable conditions that attract people
Crude birth rate (CBR)
Total number of births divided by total population
Crude death rate (CDR)
Total number of deaths divided by the total population
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Average number of children born by an average women
Rate of natural increase (RNI)
Annual growth rate for a country
Globalization
The increasing interconnectedness of people and places through economic, political, and cultural change
