Social 10 Unit 3 Flashcards
Accommodation?
When people from different cultures accept each other.
Acculturation?
The cultural change that when two or more cultures accommodate or adapt to each other’s worldviews.
Assimilation?
Changing someone’s culture/beliefs into your own.
Collective identity?
The identity of a group.
Ex: language spoke, or religion.
Culture?
The distinct way a group of people live.
Their collective identity.
Cultural content laws?
Laws that help minority cultures, not to be overwhelmed by major ones.
Digital Divide?
A gap between people who do and do not use technology.
Global village?
The interconnected world.
Homogenization?
The erasing of different cultures.
Hybridization?
The combing of 2 or more different things to create something new.
Ex: Sesame Street and globalization.
Individual Identity?
Your specific identity.
Integration?
Combing 2 or more things.
Marginalization?
Pushing one culture over to make room for another.
Media Convergence?
The use of technology to integrate media.
Ex: phones - apps for social media, news and books.
Transnational corporation?
A company that operates in multiple countries.
Monoculture?
One culture
Multiculturalism?
Made of many culturally distinct groups who are free to promote their culture.
Popular Culture?
Current cultural trends that are spread using media/adds
Universalization?
The spread of cultures, trends, customs and practices.
Case studies.
What does the case study “Sesame Street goes global” talk about.
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
Economic dimensions of trade?
Where it is grown.
Shipping fees
Wages for employees
What the consumer is willing to pay.
Political dimensions of trade?
Taxes and tariffs.
The supporting of old colonies by buying their goods instead of others.
Environmental dimensions of trade?
Forest being cut down.
Chemicals used on plants
Wildlife being killed.
Social dimensions of trade?
Poor working conditions
Untrained tot handle chemicals used.
Blacklisting - putting employees on a do not hire list.
No unions
Aspects of individual identity?
Identities are constantly changing.
Our generation has more access to other cultures then any other.
Pluralistic society?
A society with two or more cultures.
Aspects of collective identities?
Can be influenced by social media and globalization.
What happened with the Lubicon Cree and the USA?
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.
Aspects of different languages?
Through learning a different language one absorbs the collective identity.
Translations are not always correct or easy.
Language and globalization aspects?
Some 417 languages are considered extinct
Linguistic genocide is the “killing” of languages
Media concentration?
When one company owns many forms of media. Such as newspapers, news stations, and radio.
Fox News owns most news in the USA
What is the problem with media concentration.
The reports are biased because they are all coming from one company.
What is the CRTC?
The Canadian Radio and Television commission
What does the CRTC do?
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.
