gobalization introduction Flashcards
Acculturation
the cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate or adapt to each others worldview
Accommodation
A process that occurs when people from different cultures come in contact and accept and create space for one another
Collective
A group to which a person belongs and identifies with
Context
circumstances or surrounding
Cultural revitalization
The process of affirming and promoting people’s individual and collective cultural indentity
Affirmation of indentity
The way that people assert themselves into their community
Integration
Occurs when separate people or things are brought together
Assimilation
a process that occurs when the culture of a minority’s group is absorbed by another culture. The cultural identity of the minority group disappears as its members take on the identity of the other culture
marginalization
treatment of a person,group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral
Transnational corporation (multinational corporation) TNC
Any enterprise that undertakes foreign direct investment, owns it controls income gathering assets in more than one country, produces goods or services outside its country or origin or engaged in international production
Media concentration
The gathering of ownership of newspapers and other media in the hands of a few large corporation
Media convergence
The use of electrical technology to interface media such as newspaper, books, tv and the internet
Cultural content laws
Laws passed by a government to prevent a groups cultural identity including its artists,performers, songs,movies and literature from being overwhelmed by the media of a more dominant culture
Cultural diversity
Variety in culturals and identities
Homogenization
The erasing of differences. When this term is approved to people, it often refers to the erasing of cultural differences so that people become more and more similar
