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post midterm purple terms Flashcards

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hyper-consumption

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buying more than one can afford

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hyper debt

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owing more than one will be able to repay

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sovereign wealth funds

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funds controlled by nation-states that often invest in other countries

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race to the bottom

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countries involved in a downward spiral of competitiveness

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supply chains

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value-adding activities in the prod’n process beginning with raw materials and ending with a finished product

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international production networks

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networks of producers involved in producing a finished product

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global commodity chains

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value-adding chains, global industries, and the sellers of global products

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global value chains

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various phases of prod’n, delivery to the final consumers, final disposal

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industrial upgrading

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nation-states, firms, and even workers move from low-value to relatively high-value prod’n

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outsourcing

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transfer of activities once performed by an entity to a business(es) in exchange for money

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offshore outsourcing

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transfer of activities to entities in other countries

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FDI - foreign direct investment

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investment by a firm in one nation-state in a firm in another nation-state with the intention of controlling it

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portfolio investment

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purchase of equities in companies in other countries for financial gain, not control

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Greenfield investment

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building of totally new corporate facilities in another country

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structural adjustment

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conditions of economic ‘restructuring’ imposed by organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF on borrowing nation-states

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MNCs

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corporation that operates in more than 2 countries

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trade related investment measures (TRIMs)

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WTO agreement on trade measures gov’ts can impose on foreign firms

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autarky

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turn inward of a nation-state in order to become as economically self-sufficient as possible

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trade related aspects of int’l property rights (TRIPs)

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WTO agreement to protect the interests of those that create ideas

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cultural differentialism

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cultures tend to remain stubbornly different from one another

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cultural hybridization

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mixing of cultures leading to unique combinations

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glocalization

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interpretations of the global and the local resulting in unique outcomes in different geographic ares

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hybridization

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external flows interact with internal flows producing a unique cultural hybrid that combines their elements

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creolization

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combination of languages and cultures previously unintelligible to one another

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cultural convergence

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cultures are subject to many of the same global flows and tend to grow more alike

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world culture

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spread of global models leading to global convergence

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isomorphism

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a series of global models has led to a great uniformity throughout the world

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mcdonalidization

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process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more of the world

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grobalization

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imperialistic ambitions of nation-states, corporations, and organizations, and their imposition throughout the world

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nothing

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social forms largely devoid of distinctive content

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something

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largely full social forms, those rich in distinctive content

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non-places

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setting largely devoid of distinctive content

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non-things

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objects largely devoid of distinctive content

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non-people

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those who occupy positions that lead them to be devoid of distinctive content at lest in those positions

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non-services

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services largely devoid of distinctive content

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ethnoscapes

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actual movement, as well as fantasies about moving, of mobile groups and individuals

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technoscapes

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fluid, global configurations of technology and the wide range of material that moves freely and quickly around the globe

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finances capes

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processes by which huge sums of money move through nation-states and around the world at great speed

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mediascapes

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electronic capability to produce and transmit information and images globally

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ideas capes

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flows of images primarily political in nature

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trade protectionism

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policy of systematic gov’t intervention in foreign trade with the objective of encouraging domestic prod’n

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information war

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information and information technology increasingly permeating warfare perpetrated by developed countries

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social class

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social rankings made on the basis of economic factors such as occupation, wealth and income

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natural resources trap

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limiting economic development bc of excessive dependence on abundant natural resources

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conflict trap

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nation-state confronted with either continuing civil wars or frequent violent coups d’état

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global cities

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key cities in the global, especially capitalist, economy

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megacities

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cities with a population greater than 10 million people

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megalopolis

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a long chain of interconnected cities with the potentiality of becoming one huge city

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intersectionality

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members of minority groups are affected by their position in other arrangements of social inequality

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minority group

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a group of people in a subordinate position in wealth, power, and/or prestige (status)

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majority group

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a group of people in a superordinate position in wealth, power, and/or prestige (status)

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orientalism

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ideas, texts produced in the West the basis of the domination, control, exploitation of the East

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race

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defined based on meanings attached to physical or biological characteristics

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racism

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belief in the inherent superiority of one racial group and the inferiority of others

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xenophobia

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beliefs, attitudes and prejudices that reject, exclude and vilify groups made up of outsiders or foreigners

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genocide

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acts committed with intend to destroy a national, ethic, racial or religious group

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ethnic cleansing

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forcible removing people of another ethnic group

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sex

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physical differences between males and females

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gender

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differences between males and females based on social definition and distinction

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feminization of labour

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increasing participation of women in the global formal and informal paid-labour force

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global care chains

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series of personal relationships between people across the globe based on the paid or unpaid work of caring

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time-space compression

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the shrinking of space, and the reduction of the time required by a wide range of processes, brought about by changes in transportation and communication technologies advanced mainly by capitalist corporations

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time-space distanciation

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the stretching of social relations across space and time brought about by technological change

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prosumers

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those who engage in the interrelated process of production and consumption

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temporary labour migrants

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guest workers and overseas contract workers that move to a country for a limited amount of time

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irregular migrants

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migrants that enter, or stay in, a country without proper documentation

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highly skilled migrants

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workers with special qualifications (e.g., managers, executives, professionals, technicians) who migrate for better economic opportunities

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forced migrants

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refugees and asylum seekers who are forced to leave their home country

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refugees

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those forced to leave their homeland, or who leave involuntarily, bc they fear for their safety

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asylum seekers

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refugees who seek to remain in the country to which they flee

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family reunification migrants

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individuals whose family ties motivated them to migrate internationally

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return migrants

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people who, after spending time in their destination country, go back to their home country

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international migrants

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people who live in a country where they were not born and have important social ties to that country

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human trafficking

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the recruitment and movement of people through force or coercion, for purposes of sexual exploitation or forced labour

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brain drain

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systematic loss by a nation-state of people highly prized elsewhere in the world

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brain gain

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nation-states, especially those that are developed, acquire more people with a strong knowledge base than they lose

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ecotourism

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tourists experience natural environments while doing little or no harm to them

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ethnotourism

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tourists experiencing the way other people live, often people very different from themselves

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modernization

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the belief of an evolutionary process that moved humankind from agricultural and pre-modern societies into the modern era, brought about by the reality of wide-scale rational planning

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ecological economics

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economic theory that considers the ecological carrying capacity of the earth thus integrating economic theory with environmental knowledge

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anthropocene

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a potential new geological era characterized by several accelerating human-made ecological changes, including mass extinctions, global warming, and oceanic changes, that are far-reaching and in many cases, permanent

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climate refugees

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people displaced by environmental changes brought about by climate change, such as rising sea levels, drought, and increased exposure to hurricanes and floods

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sustainable development

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economic and environmental changes that meet the needs of the present without jeopardizing the future

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carbon tax

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a tax applied to fossil fuels (oil, coal and natural gas) used to curb carbon emissions

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cap-and-trade

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a system that limits the total carbon emissions allowed, where companies buy permits in order to allow them to produce additional emissions with prices set by the market

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carbon neutrality

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a scenario where carbon emissions are equal to (or less than) the amount of those emissions that are absorbed by the natural environment

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protectionism

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government intervention in order to encourage domestic production

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fair trade

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concern for the social, economic, and environmental well-being of marginalized small producers

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