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Vocab Flashcards

1
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Citizenship

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Empowerment

Doing your part to make the world a better place.

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Public good

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Sustainability

Ensuring we can survive into the future

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Globalisation

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Increased movement and communication between people, commodities, and cultures.

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Culture

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Values/traditions/beliefs/norms of a group of people

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Society

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Group living in the same place.

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Nation

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Group of people with a common culture.

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State

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Political borders, common society

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Nation-state

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Cultural nation and political state that are one in the same.

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Tragedy of the Commons

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Overuse or misuse of something shared by a population. The fallout of a change.

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Cultural System

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The way a group expresses their cultural. Their cultural norms.

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Reflexivity

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The understanding of your personal limitations.

Eg. You can’t be a different ethnicity.

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Human Universals

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  1. Complexity of Communication
  2. Bipedal
  3. Organized religion
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Top 3 Human Innovations

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  1. Harnessing Fire
  2. Agricultural development
  3. Industrial revolution/mass production
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Racism

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The belief that thw human race is divided by races.

News flash, its not

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Ethnicity

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Anything that represents a person other than their biology.

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Ethnocentrism

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The belief that one culture is better than another.

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Cultural relativism

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Every culture is valid within its own context.

Culture makes sense to the people who are part of it.

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Race

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Group of organisms that are genetically distinct within the same species
Ex. Dog breeds
NOT HUMANS

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Species

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A group of organisms that is within 1% different from other organisms.

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Enmeshment

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A relatioship with unclear or crossed boundaries. Co-dependency, etc.

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Parental Alienation

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When one parent denegrates the other and purposely or unintentionally ruins the relationship with the other parent.

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Kids’ rights

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All children have the right to know both parents

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Estrangement

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When a parent is absent for a valid reason, be it violence, or “choice”

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Intersectionailty

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How class, gender, and ethnicity impact a Person and their world view.

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World view

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How somwone sees the world

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Is globalization good or bad?

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Neither. Only the exploitation of globalization is bad as it only includes self interest which will not help to ensure the survival of our species.

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How can parental alienation be prevented?

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Early intervention and enforcement of the child’s right to know both parents.

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Dualism

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Being able to divide into two view points. See both sides equally.

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Consensus

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Coming to a decision with all voices heard

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Confirmation bias

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Interpreting new evidence only to support your own opinions.

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Meta-analysis

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Examination of different independant studies to determine overall trends

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Identity Crisis

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When a person’s identity becomes insecure typically due to changes in goals or societal roles

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Fluidity

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Easily being able to adjust view points to accept new information

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Reliable

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Sources that provide a thorough and well reasoned theory, argument, and discussion.

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Valid

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Credibility of a source. Information is unbiased and backed up in facts and evidence.

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3 steps to solving a social problem

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Awareness
Acceptance
Action

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What concepts does “Soldier Child” touch on

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Identity
Culture
Economics
Politics

38
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Benefits of Local Markets

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Direct
Fresher quality
Accountability
Cheaper
Relationships
Nutrition
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Benefits of supermarkets

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Variety
Efficiency
Volume
Ready made/processed
Safety nets
40
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Parts of an economy

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Production of commodities
Distribution
Consumption
Taxes
Debt load
Conspicuous consumptiom
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Reciprocity

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Exchange of goods/equal trade

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Subsistence vs surplus economies

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Subsistence everyone gets what they need

Surplus is based on the wants of people

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Conspicuous comsumption

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Proving your “status” by showing off what you own

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Pros of Globalization

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Necessary for Growth

Aids in exiting poverty

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Cons of Globalization

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Falsified sense of poverty that needs to be “fixed”
Reduced value of human rights
Ethnocentrism
Dependency of people on debt and the system

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Egalitarian

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Smaller
High accountability
Consensus
High prevention
All have a voice
Restitution
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Ranked system

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Medium sized
Disparity of wealth but not power
More rules to avoid chaos

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Stratified

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Disparity is wealth, influence, and power

Intro to the patriarchy

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Absolute Poverty

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You don’t have what you need and therefore you die.

50
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Relative poverty

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You don’t have as much as the people around you

51
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Conflict vs functional theories

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Theories on why we continue the way we do

Conflict: conflict is normal, natural, and good. Needed in order to find compromise

Functionalist: everyone is where they are because they deserve it

52
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Causation of electing a Trump

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Tinder - everyone is used to the hierarchy so why change it (authoritarianism)

  • social dominance
  • intergroup contact
  • relative deprevatiom

Spark
-i intersectionailty of all points

53
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Anthropocene

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The epoch of earth created by man

54
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IPAT

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Impact = population × economic activity × techno. Impacts on environment

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Resilency

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Ability to adjust to new scenarios

Intellect + physical robustness + emotional stability = resiliency

56
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Top global issues that lead to the rest

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Overpopulation
Environmental degradation
Violence

If you solve 1. 2 and 3 should follow

57
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Planned Obsolescence

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Making things that won’t last long in order to force people to buy more.

58
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5 points to look to see if a society will collapse

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Human impact on environment
Presence of climate change
Dissolution of positive neighbouring relations
Presence of negative neighbouring relations
Does political system allow for adaptation

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Common threads in societal collapse

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Collapse just after peak
Fragility of environment
Conflict between classes
Conflict involving strongly held beliefs

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Grand solution

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Forget the idea of having multiple small issues. Look at the big picture and see they’re all one in the same

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Mitigation

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Slow or stop the progress of the issues at hand

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Reclamation

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Avoid creating new negative impacts and focus on making things better while acknowledging that returning to how things were is not an option.

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Disconnected world view

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Some people are better than others

Allows beliefs to be used as a scape goat

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Connected worldview

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Everything belongs to the planet and everything that exists is here because its necessary

Idea shared among most indigenous groups

65
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Cruelty Factor

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Way of measuring how connected a society is. The more cruel the more disconnected they are

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Cruelty

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Causing intentional pain and suffering

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