Social 10 Unit 3

Question 0

Accommodation?

Answer 0

When people from different cultures accept each other.

Question 1

Acculturation?

Answer 1

The cultural change that when two or more cultures accommodate or adapt to each other’s worldviews.

Question 2

Assimilation?

Answer 2

Changing someone’s culture/beliefs into your own.

Question 3

Collective identity?

Answer 3

The identity of a group.

Ex: language spoke, or religion.

Question 4

Culture?

Answer 4

The distinct way a group of people live.

Their collective identity.

Question 5

Cultural content laws?

Answer 5

Laws that help minority cultures, not to be overwhelmed by major ones.

Question 6

Digital Divide?

Answer 6

A gap between people who do and do not use technology.

Question 7

Global village?

Answer 7

The interconnected world.

Question 8

Homogenization?

Answer 8

The erasing of different cultures.

Question 9

Hybridization?

Answer 9

The combing of 2 or more different things to create something new.
Ex: Sesame Street and globalization.

Question 10

Individual Identity?

Answer 10

Your specific identity.

Question 11

Integration?

Answer 11

Combing 2 or more things.

Question 12

Marginalization?

Answer 12

Pushing one culture over to make room for another.

Question 13

Media Convergence?

Answer 13

The use of technology to integrate media.

Ex: phones - apps for social media, news and books.

Question 14

Transnational corporation?

Answer 14

A company that operates in multiple countries.

Question 15

Monoculture?

Answer 15

One culture

Question 16

Multiculturalism?

Answer 16

Made of many culturally distinct groups who are free to promote their culture.

Question 17

Popular Culture?

Answer 17

Current cultural trends that are spread using media/adds

Question 18

Universalization?

Answer 18

The spread of cultures, trends, customs and practices.

Question 19

Case studies.

What does the case study “Sesame Street goes global” talk about.

Answer 19

It talks about how Sesame Street is being played in different countries, but those countries are adapting the show so it shows more things that those kids can relate to.
Ex: France has a bakery.
Ex: Africa has a character with HIV/aids

Question 20

Economic dimensions of trade?

Answer 20

Where it is grown.
Shipping fees
Wages for employees
What the consumer is willing to pay.

Question 21

Political dimensions of trade?

Answer 21

Taxes and tariffs.

The supporting of old colonies by buying their goods instead of others.

Question 22

Environmental dimensions of trade?

Answer 22

Forest being cut down.
Chemicals used on plants
Wildlife being killed.

Question 23

Social dimensions of trade?

Answer 23

Poor working conditions
Untrained tot handle chemicals used.
Blacklisting - putting employees on a do not hire list.
No unions

Question 24

Aspects of individual identity?

Answer 24

Identities are constantly changing. | Our generation has more access to other cultures then any other.

Question 25

Pluralistic society?

Answer 25

A society with two or more cultures.

Question 26

Aspects of collective identities?

Answer 26

Can be influenced by social media and globalization.

Question 27

What happened with the Lubicon Cree and the USA?

Answer 27

Trade with other countries stopped with the us and the resources they were no longer getting were on Lubicon land. Since the Lubicon Cree never signed treaty eight they technically didn't own the land. Their land was then exploited so they couldn't continue their tradition way of life.

Question 28

Aspects of different languages?

Answer 28

Through learning a different language one absorbs the collective identity. Translations are not always correct or easy.

Question 29

Language and globalization aspects?

Answer 29

Some 417 languages are considered extinct | Linguistic genocide is the "killing" of languages

Question 30

Media concentration?

Answer 30

When one company owns many forms of media. Such as newspapers, news stations, and radio. Fox News owns most news in the USA

Question 31

What is the problem with media concentration.

Answer 31

The reports are biased because they are all coming from one company.

Question 32

What is the CRTC?

Answer 32

The Canadian Radio and Television commission

Question 33

What does the CRTC do?

Answer 33

The monitor how much Canadian contact we are exposed to in the media. Protect Canadian culture by making sure a certain amount of Canadian media is shown. Protect us from homogenizing with the USA government.