Unit 1

Question 1

CBC

Answer 1

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Question 2

Universalization of Popular Culture

Answer 2

Large number of people experiencing much of the same culture

Question 3

Hybridization

Answer 3

Creating hybrid cultures and identities (mixing)

Question 4

Media Transnational

Answer 4

Large national/international media company

Question 5

Media Consolidation/Convergence

Answer 5

Concentration of Media Ownership

Question 6

SRS

Answer 6

Société Radio Canada

Question 7

Public Broadcasters

Answer 7

Mandated to promote Canadian culture

Question 8

Minority Language

Answer 8

Language spoken by the minority population/group

• Ex: French in Canada

Question 9

CRTC

Answer 9

Canadian Radio and Television Commission

• Purpose is to regulate and promote Canadian culture in broadcast media

Question 10

CanCon

Answer 10

• Canadian Content

- Set amount that must be broadcasted

Question 11

Homogenization

Answer 11

The process by which all culture gradually lose their distinctive features and become one blended culture

Question 12

Monoculture

Answer 12

Instead of participating in diverse regional cultures, many people turn into a single ‘culture’

Question 13

Assimilation

Answer 13

Process by which an ethnic group loses its distinct language and culture
- Becomes absorbed by the dominant grouo

Question 14

Marginalization

Answer 14

• Less dominant ethnic group taking some of the habits and customs of the dominat society
• Incompletly assimilated
• No longer belonging to a grouo

Question 15

Integration

Answer 15

• Joining of various ethnic groups within a society into a common society with generally accepted values
• Ex: Social integration in Canada without loss of culture

Question 16

Secularism

Answer 16

Distinct and total separation between state institutions and religious institution

Question 17

Official Language Act

Answer 17

Made English and French the official languages of Canada

Question 18

Urbanization

Answer 18

The growth of cities

Question 19

Metropolise

Answer 19

Large cities

Question 20

Cosmopolitan

Answer 20

Including or conatining people from many different countries

Question 21

Megacities

Answer 21

Urban centres with a population of over 10 million people

Question 22

Acculturation

Answer 22

The process of changing as a result of contact with other groups

• When people adapt to a new culture at the speed and to the extent that they wish

Question 23

Co-operatives

Answer 23

Businesses owned jointly by their members, who share the profits equally

Question 24

Cultural Revelation

Answer 24

An opportunity to celebrate identity

Question 25

Section 23

Answer 25

Gives parents the right to educate their kids in their first language (French or English) anywhere in Canada

Question 26

Charter of Rights and Freedom

Answer 26

Guarantees all Canadians basic rights

Question 27

Globalization

Answer 27

The process of making the global community increasingly more interconnected and interdependent

Question 28

Social Globalization

Answer 28

Process by which people’s lifestyle spreads over international networks

Question 29

Third World

Answer 29

Less developed

Question 30

Biodiversity

Answer 30

Biological variety and variability of life

Question 31

Collective

Answer 31

Done by people acting as a group

Question 32

Propaganda

Answer 32

Information, especially of biased or misleading nature, used to promite or publicize a particualr cause or point of view

Question 33

UNESCO

Answer 33

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization