CONWORLD - LESSON 1-3 Flashcards
True or False: Media help us to become more alert, more aware of recent developments. It helps us get fresh news around the globe.
True
It is the transmission of ideas, meaning, and characteristics of a group through media.
Global Media Culture
It simply means relating to or embracing the whole of something or of a group of things.
Global
It is the main means of mass communication and is the outlets and tools used to restore and deliver information or data.
Media
It is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.
Culture
It is one prevalent sample of downfall in global media culture. It also includes a high risk of inaccurate reporting and may be a platform of identity theft and loss of privacy.
Fake news
True or False: According to Skyline University, global media culture represents a cultural otherness, at times a threat to cultural tradition and autonomy.
False (According to Dr. Stig Hjarvard*)
True or False: Dr. Stig Hjarvard added that cultures are the core values that cannot be disappeared just because of globalization.
False (Skyline University added*)
True or False: Globalization helps us to learn and explore different society.
True
It is the process of making something to conform to a standard and also the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on a consensus of different parties
Standardization
It is a study of the use of a system and telecommunications for storing, retrieving and sending information.
Information Technology
True or False: Standard in technology cannot mandate the quality and consistency of technologies and ensure their compatibility and inter-capacity and safety.
False (can mandate)
It is a process by which one country dominates other countries’ media consumption and consequently dominates their values and ideologies.
Cultural Imperialism
True or False: Cultural demography is the domination of one culture over another.
False (Cultural imperialism)
True or False: Hollywood is a good example of cultural imperialism to the extent that even developed countries like France and the United Kingdom go to great lengths to ensure their own film industries remain strong.
True
True or False: Some believe that the Americans spread of culture is beneficial to the entire planet, while other consider this cultural imperialism a threat.
True
It is very much linked to the globalization process, which is the spread of western ideas and culture.
Cultural hybridize
It is the blending of elements from different cultures.
Cultural Hybridization
What is an example of cultural hybridize?
Creolization
It is used to refer to forms of culture that do not have historical roots but are the result of global interconnections.
Creolization
These people today find it difficult to point out where their ancestors are from.
Creole people
Without it, the world we live today would not be anywhere near as interesting and integrated as it today.
Cultural hybridization
True or False: Being creole meant to be uprooted and to belong to a new world in contrast to a world that is old, deep and rooted.
True
This term has subsequently been applied to food, architecture, music and language.
Creolization
It involves the spread of language, the art, food, business, ideas, technology etc.
Cultural Globalization
It helps to increase greater religious tolerance.
Globalization
True or False: Globalization helps people on how to properly respect other religion.
True
True or False: We should always fact check information we get especially if it came from the internet.
True
True or False: Cultures around the world have also exchanged words or phrases “OK” or the thumbs up is now used all over the world.
True
True or False: Foruveinternational.com, however, contested that globalization has only positive impact on our cultural identity.
False (It has both positive and negative impact duhh)
What is the main side effect of globalization?
Wide spread of multinational corporations
It is the study of population globally based on factors such as: age, race, sex, and a study how birth rates and death rates change.
Global Demography
The word global demography was coined by?
John Graunt
It also means the statistical and mathematical study of size compositional and spatial distribution of human populations and the changes over time in these aspects through the operation of the five (5) processes.
Global Demography
It encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these populations and temporal changes in them in response to birth, aging, death, or incidence of disease.
Global Demography
Before this Covid-19 pandemic, what was the most popular incidents of disease in history that caused a demographic upheaval in 15th century Europe were half of the population died and the Potato Blight of Ireland.
Black plague
True or False: English statistician, generally considered to be the founder of the science of demography.
True
It is the number of people who are too young or too old to enter the workforce.
Dependency ratio
Countries suffer small growth rate, caused by cleanliness, hygienic surrounding, population control, balanced food and health consciousness.
Mortality decline
It is the result of improved nutrition, public health infrastructure and medical care.
Population explosion
If these people are huge numbered in a country, savings per capita will be bigger.
Working age
It is the average period that a person may expect to live.
Life expectancy
It is the total number of live births per 1000 of population in a year.
Birth rate
It is the total number of deaths per 1000 of population in a year.
Death rate
It is the number of offspring both per mating pair, individual, or population.
Fertility rate
It is the condition of being diseased. Amount of disease within a population.
Morbidity.
True or False: Rapid and significant demographic change places new demands on national and international policy making.
True
True or False: Rising longevity also affects the incentives to save for old age, which can affect investment, internal capital flows, and interest rates.
True
True or False: Transitions from low mortality and fertility to high mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large baby boom cohorts enter the workforce and save retirement.
False
It is a model that describes population change over time.
Demographic transition
Pre-industrial society, death rates and birth rates are high and roughly in balance, and population growth is typically very slow and constrained by the available food supply.
Stage 1: High Stationary
The death rates drop rapidly due to improvements in food supply and sanitation, which increase life spans and reduce disease.
Stage 2: Low Death Rate, High Birth Rate. Early Expanding.
Birth rates fall due to access to contraception, increase in wages, urbanization increase in status, education of women and increase investment in education.
Population growth begins to level off. It is Important to note that birth rate decline is caused also by a transition in values not just because of contraceptive.
Stage 3: Late Expanding
Birth rates and death rates are both low.
The large group born during two stages, it creates an economic burden on the shrinking population. Death rate may remain consistently low or increase in lifestyle disease. Little growth in population. The population age structure has become older. People born during stage 2 are now beginning to age. Birth rates are low as the society is advanced and therefore, women choose for careers and smaller families to ensure that they have a better quality of life.
Stage 4: Low Stationary.
Fertility rates transition to either below replacement or above replacement.
Some believed that the world population will be forced to stabilized. Perhaps the world will run out of resources or food shortage due to population growth. Decline birth rate may result because of rising individualism, one child policy, many decide not to have children at all by being sterilized.
Stage 5: Declining. Only speculation.
True or False: If both birth rate and death rate are low, it will make the population age structure older.
True
The word religion is derived from the Latin word “______” meaning obligation, bond and reverence.
religio
Religion operative meaning to bind together comes from Latin word “______”.
religare
It is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
Religion
True or False: Rapid and significant demographic change place new demands on national and international policy making.
True
True or False: We should keep in mind that every religion has its own belief and perspective.
True
True or False: As people become part of the” global society”; they gradually leave behind many of the customs of their cultures, either because they are incompatible, or because after being exposed to other point of views, they dismiss the “old ways” as anachronistic or antiquated.
True
True or False: Some terror groups used their political agenda by using religion as tool to fulfill their political gains.
True
True or False: Many major religion has been exempted from complicity in violent conflict.
False (No major religion has been exempted from complicity in violent conflict)
True or False: Religion is usually the sole or even primary cause of conflict.
False
True or False: Every religion teaches the common thing, that is, non-violence, equality and freedom.
True
Government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others.
Liberalism
It is the duty of the consumer to identify his or her rights to protect himself or herself.
Consumerism
Belief that opinion and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than religious belief or emotional response.
Rationalism
True or False: We can consider religion as purely anti-rationalist since many religious people reconcile faith and reason which embraces new trends within their religion.
False (we cannot consider religion as purely anti-rationalist)
True or False: Religion seeks to assert its identity in the light of globalization.
True
True or False: According to Ehteshani: Globalization is only not seen as a rival of Islamic ways but also as an alien force divorced from Muslim realities.
True
It is a monotheistic religion centered around the personage of Jesus Christ and it has 2.2 billion adherents.
Christianity
It is a strictly monotheistic faith founded by the prophet Mohammad in the year 607 in Saudi Arabia and it has 1.3 billion adherents.
Islam
It is not a religion in a strict sense, it is a philosophy that draws on the folk religion of China.
Confucianism
It is a synthesis of many different Indian religious traditions and it has 900 million adherents.
Hinduism
It is an ancient religious tradition from India; older than Hinduism.
Jainism
It is strictly a monotheistic religion by the Jewish people.
Judaism
It is the traditional religion of Japan which incorporate a vast array of local beliefs and customs across the nation.
Shinto
It is a young religion founded in the early 1500’s in Punjab (Northern India) by Gure Ganak.
Sikhism
It is the world’s oldest monotheistic religion founded by the Persian prophet Zoroaster.
Zoroastrinism
It is a philosophy and religion in China around the same time as Confucianism.
Taoism
True or False: Confucianism is a philosophy that draws on the folk religion of china.
True
True or False: Improvements of basic necessities such as food, water, and medical care may increase death rates.
False
