globalisation key terms 40-58

Question 1

soft power

Answer 1

the global influence a country derives from its culture, it’s political values and it’s diplomacy. much of the usa’s soft power has been created by ‘Hollywood, Harvard, Microsoft and Michael Jordan’.

Question 2

cultural landscape

Answer 2

the landscape of a place that has been shaped over time in characteristic ways by the combined action of natural and human processes.

Question 3

absolute poverty

Answer 3

when a person’s income is too low for basic human needs to be met, potentially resulting in hunger and homelessness.

Question 4

millennium development goals

Answer 4

eight specific goals for the global community created at the UN Millennium Summit in New York in 2000.

Question 5

relative poverty

Answer 5

when a person’s income is too low to maintain the average standard of living in a particular society. asset growth for very rich people and lead to more people being in relative poverty.

Question 6

informal sector

Answer 6

unofficial forms of employment that are not easily made subject to government regulations or taxation.

Question 7

post accession migration

Answer 7

the flow of economic migrants after a country has joined the eu.

Question 8

diaspora

Answer 8

the dispersion The dispersion or spread of a group of people from their original homeland.

Question 9

crude birth rate

Answer 9

the number of live births per 1000 people per year.

Question 10

nationalist

Answer 10

a political movement focused on national independence or the abandonment of policies that are viewed by some people as a threat to national sovereignty or national culture.

Question 11

post-colonial migrants

Answer 11

people who moved to European Countries from former colonies during the 50s, 60s and 70s. The UK received economic migrants from the Caribbean, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uganda.

Question 12

net migration

Answer 12

the overall balance between immigration and emigration.

Question 13

consumer society

Answer 13

a society in which the buying and selling of goods and services is the most important social and economic activity

Question 14

water footprint

Answer 14

a measure of the amount of water used in the production and transport to market of food and commodities.

Question 15

carbon footprint

Answer 15

the amount of carbon dioxide produced by an individual or activity.

Question 16

food miles

Answer 16

the distance food travels from a farm to the consumer.

Question 17

transition town

Answer 17

a settlement where people and businesses have adopted bottom up initiatives with the aim of making their community more sustainable and less reliant on global trade.

Question 18

ethical purchase

Answer 18

a financial exchange where the consumer has considered the social and environmental cost of the production for food, goods or services purchased.