Final Exam Terms and Defintions Flashcards
Globalization
The worldwide movement towards economic, financial, trade and community integration, as well as social cultural and political.
Individual Identity
a subjective sense of self based on unique personal characteristics
Accommodation
a process that occurs when people from different cultures come into contact and accept and create space for each other.
Cosmopolitan
a normative viewpoint from which one experiences, understands, and judges the world
Assimilation
a process that occurs when the culture of a minority group is absorbed by another culture. Minority group’s identity disappears as its members takes on the identity of the other culture
Cultural Revitalization
the process of affirming and promoting people’s individual and collective cultural identity
Global Village
all parts of the world as they are being brought together by the internet and other electronic communication interconnections
Collective Identity
the way that people define themselves in relation to others and the outside world
Integration
the consolidating of basic concepts, facts and knowledge in subjects that are related from recognizable parts to form whole during the process of teaching and learning (assimilation of immigrant groups into a new nation)
Homogenization
the erasing of differences (erasing cultural differences so people become more and more similar)
Marginalization
occurs when certain groups of people get denied access to areas of society
CRTC
-Canadian Radio and Television Communication
-an administrative tribunal that regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest
Pluralistic Society
a situation in which people of different social classes, religions, races, etc., are together in a society but continue to have their different traditions and interests
CBC/SRC
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Societé
Media Convergence
the use of electronic technology to integrate media such as newspapers, books, Tv, and the Internet
Monoculture
the policy or process of supporting, advocating, or allowing the expression of the culture of a single social or ethnic group
Democracy
a society in which the citizens are sovereign and control the government
Acculturation
the cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate, or adapt to, each other’s worldviews
Secularism
the separation of religion from political, economic, social and cultural aspects of life, religion being treated as a purely personal matter
Cultural Content
related to the society where individuals are raised in and at how the culture affects behavior
Metropolises
a major city together with its suburbs and nearby cities, towns, and environs over which the major city exercises a commanding economic and social influence
Minority Language
one spoken by less than 50 percent of a population in a given region, state or country
Official Bilingualism
to ensure unobstructed access to either of Canada’s two official languages as actors interface with a broad spectrum of governmental activity
Minority Group
a culturally, ethnically, or racially distinct group that coexists with but is subordinate to a more dominant group