Social Vocab 1

Question 1

Acculturation

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Change as a result of contact with other cultural groups

Question 2

Assimilation

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The absobtion of a minority government by a dominant group

Question 3

Collective Identity

Answer 3

The combination of beliefs, values, view of history, and language of a people

Question 4

Global Village

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An idea from popularized Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s, that the entire world an its inhabitants are becoming one large community interconnected by technoogly

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Globalization

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The process that is making the world’s citizens increasingly interdependant economically, socially, enviromentally, and technologicaly

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Homogenization

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A tend towards uniformity as with world popular culture as a result of globablization

Question 7

Imperialism

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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

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Industrialism

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a stage of economic development that occurs when the place of production shifts from the home and small shops to large factories.

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Infastructure

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systems such as electrical powere, transpotation and communication that supports economic activity

Question 10

Interegation

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The incorperation of of diverse minority groups into mainstream society

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Internationalism

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a policy of countries working together for the common good regardless of race religion nationality and so on

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Marginalism

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the pushing of a group to the margins of society where they hold little power

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Multilpe perspectives

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a variety of ways of regarding or viewing of situations, facts etc

Question 14

Subsidiaries

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companies controlled by a parent company

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Outsourcing

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the hiring of one company by another to fullfill certain tasks in production

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Stake holders

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people or groups that are affected by an issue and have something to gain or lose from it

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Pluralistic Society

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a society in which a diversity of languages, beliefs, values and religions exist

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Subsides

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finacial help given by the governmant to help support an industry

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Transnationals

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cooperation that operates in two or more countries also people that are citizens of 2 or more countries

Question 20

Tolerance

Answer 20

a dsipostion to allow a choice or behavior