Week 10-Inequality And Globalization

Question 1

Class

Answer 1

Social hierarchies based on economic wealth

Possible to change with acquisition of: education, achievement, and wealth.

Question 2

Caste

Answer 2

Hierarchical social system assigned at birth, typically arranged from “purest” to “least pure”

Not possible to change status-ascribed status

Question 3

Race

Answer 3

Socially defined based on phenotypical characteristics

Used for exclusion/inclusion, violence, persecution, or solidarity

Question 4

Ethnicity

Answer 4

Socially defined by culture (language, religion, or dress)

Can be malleable; can be self-ascribed

Question 5

How are race and ethnicity related?

Answer 5

They are both cultural creations (not biological)

Race is loosely based on physical characteristics
-within your race you have certain ethnicities (social groups) based on culture

Question 6

Nationalism

Answer 6

A sense of identification with and loyalty to your nation-state

Question 7

Nation

Answer 7

A group of people believed to share history, culture, language, and “physical substance”

Ex:Cherokee nation, Lakota nation

Question 8

Nation-state

Answer 8

Political entity in which national identity and political territory coincide

A state that has chosen to adopt and endorse a specific cultural group associated with it

Question 9

Difference between a nation and a nation-state?

Answer 9

Nations are a group sharing things like culture, history, and language.
Nation-states are a political entity.

States typically have many nations within them

They both have many ethnicities in them

Question 10

What are some consequences of nationalism?

Answer 10

Disenfranchisement
-unequal access to things like: voting rights, property laws, and economic ability

Transformist hegemony

• a nationalist program to define nationality in a way that preserves the cultural domination of the ruling group
• included enough cultural feature from other groups to ensure their loyalty

Question 11

Globalization

Answer 11

Local conditions are reshaped by powerful global forces on a constantly intensifying scale

Ex:our countries economic problems had an effect on the global market

Question 12

Positive effects of globalization?

Answer 12

Increases access to important things through trading networks and the internet. (Food, News, media, information, goods, raw materials, etc.)

Good and bad
Cultural hybridity
-cultural destabilization and mixing

Question 13

Negative effects of globalization?

Answer 13

Domination by one culture
-destruction of local music, technology, dress, and food

Western cultural imperialism

• bringing western culture into other like: blue jeans, cell phones, McDonald’s, Coca Cola
• seen as dooming the world to uniformity

Conflict and friction

Question 14

Cultural imperialism

Answer 14

One culture can dominate others which can lead to the destruction of one culture and replacement by the dominant culture.

Question 15

Difference between multiculturalism and cultural imperialism?

Answer 15

Multiculturalism is the idea that different cultures can exist and thrive in the same region without one thinking they are better than the others.
In cultural imperialism there can only be one dominating culture.