Chapter 1: Globalization and Diversity

Question 1

when forms of US pop culture spread around the world

Answer 1

Hybridization

Question 2

a firm or corporation, that does international business through an array of global subsidiaries

Answer 2

Transnational Firms

Question 3

the notion that globalization will result in the world’s poorer countries gradually catching up with more advanced economies

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economic convergence

Question 4

crude factories in which workers sew clothing, assemble sneakers and perform other labor intensive tasks for extremely low wages

Answer 4

sweatshops

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one of the most powerful institutions of economic globalization, created in 1995 to oversee trade agreements, encourage open markets, enforce trade rules and settle disputes. 151 member countries

Answer 5

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Question 6

says that globalization is not “natural”, a greater gap between rich and poor

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critics of globalization

Question 7

a highly inflated economy that cannot be sustained, usually results from rapid influx of international capital into developing countries

Answer 7

bubble economy

Question 8

the standard statistic used to express natural population growth per year for a country, region or the world, based on the difference between birthrates and death rates, does not include migration

Answer 8

rate of natural increase (RNI)

Question 9

measures the fertility of a statistically average group of women moving throughout their childbearing years

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fertility rate (TFR)

Question 10

structures the population - includes the percentage of young and old

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population pyramid

Question 11

examples of push forces

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civil strife, environmental, or unemployment

Question 12

examples of pull forces

Answer 12

better economic opportunity or health services

Question 13

Immigration

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moving into a country

Question 14

emmigration

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moving out of a country

Question 15

the measure of immigration and emigration - a statistic that depicts whether people are entering or leaving a country

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net migration rates

Question 16

learned, not innate, and is shared behavior held in common by a group of people, empowering them with what could be called a “way of life”

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culture

Question 17

the percentage of a country’s population living in cities

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urbanized population

Question 18

the active promotion of one cultural system at the expense of another

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cultural imperialism

Question 19

the blending of forces to form a new, synergistic form of culture

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cultural syncretism or hybridization

Question 20

______ - the blending of forces to form a new, synergistic form of culture

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subfamilies

Question 21

distinctive forms associaated with specific regions

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dialect

Question 22

an agreed upon common language to facilitate communication on specific topics

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lingua franca

Question 23

attempt to appeal for everybody regardless of location or culture

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universalizing religions

Question 24

identify closely with specific ethnic, tribal or national group

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ethnic religions