Social Vocab 1 Flashcards
Unit/Topic 1
Acculturation
Change as a result of contact with other cultural groups
Assimilation
The absobtion of a minority government by a dominant group
Collective Identity
The combination of beliefs, values, view of history, and language of a people
Global Village
An idea from popularized Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s, that the entire world an its inhabitants are becoming one large community interconnected by technoogly
Globalization
The process that is making the world’s citizens increasingly interdependant economically, socially, enviromentally, and technologicaly
Homogenization
A tend towards uniformity as with world popular culture as a result of globablization
Imperialism
an association betweeen peoples thatintentionally benifits one peoples over another, often by laying land claims to territories inhabited by Indegdenous peoples seizing land and resources through conflict and warfare
Industrialism
a stage of economic development that occurs when the place of production shifts from the home and small shops to large factories.
Infastructure
systems such as electrical powere, transpotation and communication that supports economic activity
Interegation
The incorperation of of diverse minority groups into mainstream society
Internationalism
a policy of countries working together for the common good regardless of race religion nationality and so on
Marginalism
the pushing of a group to the margins of society where they hold little power
Multilpe perspectives
a variety of ways of regarding or viewing of situations, facts etc
Subsidiaries
companies controlled by a parent company
Outsourcing
the hiring of one company by another to fullfill certain tasks in production
