Chapter Two (Culture Section 4 & Social Inequality)

Question 1

The practice, the theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan center ruling a distant territory (thinking about it, not doing it):

Answer 1

Imperialism

Question 2

Almost always a consequence of imperialism:

Answer 2

Colonialism

Question 3

The implanting of settlements on distant territory:

Answer 3

Colonialism

Question 4

Calling settlements their own:

Answer 4

Colonialism

Question 5

The _________ mindset that leads to the colonization of other countries:

Answer 5

Imperialistic

Question 6

The host country’s culture is forced to ______ the culture of the dominating country:

Answer 6

Absorb

Question 7

Mixing of two cultures:

Answer 7

Hybridity

Question 8

When two countries partake in colonialism, the region they take over becomes a _______ culture:

Answer 8

Hydridized

Question 9

With increasing colonization comes increasing hydridized cultures and the distinctions become progressively more ________:

Answer 9

Blurred

Question 10

The two cultures begin growing together and the original culture can sometimes be _____ or _____ _____ because of the influence of the dominating group:

Answer 10

Lost; forever altered

Question 11

When a more powerful country goes in and colonizes an area, it is because of a ____ ________ within the other country:

Answer 11

Power Relationship

Question 12

Feels it has a right to force its culture onto a “____ ______” group:

Answer 12

Less powerful

Question 13

Occurs because of ______ ways of thinking:

Answer 13

Ethnocentric

Question 14

Believes it’s essentially _____ the other country:

Answer 14

Helping

Question 15

Effects of Colonization (4):

Answer 15

1. Undermines people
2. Makes people feel inferior
3. Assumes their way of living is wrong
4. Leads to a loss of diversity in cultures

Question 16

Two cultures growing together. There is, however, power differential; not equal mixing:

Answer 16

Syncretism

Question 17

Cross-border relations; growth of international exchange and interdependence; flows of large and growing flows of trade and capital investments between countries:

Answer 17

Internationalization

Question 18

Process of removing government-imposed restrictions on movements between countries to keep an ‘open’ ‘borderless’ world economy:

Answer 18

Liberalization

Question 19

Synthesis of cultures. Process of spreading objects and experiences to people at all corners of the earth:

Answer 19

Universalization

Question 20

Social structures of modernity are spread all over, normally destroying pre-existing cultures and local self-determination in the process; sometimes called imperialism and colonization:

Answer 20

Westernization or Modernization

Question 21

Entails a configuration of geography, so social space is no longer wholly mapped in territorial places, territorial distances, and borders; process that embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions:

Answer 21

Deterritorialization

Question 22

Types of Globalization (5):

Answer 22

1. Internationalization
2. Liberalization
3. Universalization
4. Westernization or Modernization
5. Deterritorialization

Question 23

Relations between the colonial nation and colonized people are similar to those between the dominant _______ class and the ________:

Answer 23

Capitalist; proletariat

Question 24

Colonial dominations had established patterns of ______ ______ that continued even after nationhood was achieved - in part because former colonies were unable to develop their own _______ and ______:

Answer 24

Economic Exploitation; Industry and Technology

Question 25

There was a dependence on more industrialized nations, including their former colonial masters for (4):

Answer 25

1. Managerial Expertise
2. Technical Expertise
3. Investment Capital
4. Manufactured Goods

Question 26

Advanced a world-systems analysis to describe unequal economic and political relationships:

Answer 26

Immanuel Wallerstein

Question 27

Such continuing dependence and foreign domination constitutes _________:

Answer 27

Neocolonialism

Question 28

Even as developing countries make economic advances, they remain weak and subservient to core nations and corporations within an increasingly intertwined global economy:

Answer 28

Dependency Theory

Question 29

This allows industrialized nations to continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain. This is in part because developing countries owe huge sums of money to industrialized nations:

Answer 29

Dependency Theory

Question 30

Refers to commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world:

Answer 30

Multinational Corporations

Question 31

The worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas:

Answer 31

Globalization

Question 32

Protesters have drawn attention to a variety of issues like (4):

Answer 32

1. Violations of workers’ rights
2. Destruction of the environment
3. Loss of cultural identity
4. Discrimination

Question 33

Embedded in the concept of globalization is the notion of the ________ __________ of periphery nations by core nations:

Answer 33

Cultural Domination

Question 34

Things periphery nations lose to core nations (4):

Answer 34

1. Loss of traditional values
2. Identifying with the culture of the core nations
3. Discarding or neglecting their native language
4. Dress as they attempt to emulate the icons of mass-market entertainment and fashion

Question 35

A key role in neocolonialism is played out in ________ _______:

Answer 35

Multinational Corporations

Question 36

The far-reaching process by which peripheral nations move from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristics of more developed societies:

Answer 36

Modernization

Question 37

Examples of modernization (7):

Answer 37

1. Urbanization
2. Literacy
3. Industrialization
4. Nuclear Families
5. Transportation
6. Media Systems
7. Shifted from allegiance to traditional sources to gov. officials