Chapter Two (Culture Section 4 & Social Inequality) Flashcards
(37 cards)
The practice, the theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan center ruling a distant territory (thinking about it, not doing it):
Imperialism
Almost always a consequence of imperialism:
Colonialism
The implanting of settlements on distant territory:
Colonialism
Calling settlements their own:
Colonialism
The _________ mindset that leads to the colonization of other countries:
Imperialistic
The host country’s culture is forced to ______ the culture of the dominating country:
Absorb
Mixing of two cultures:
Hybridity
When two countries partake in colonialism, the region they take over becomes a _______ culture:
Hydridized
With increasing colonization comes increasing hydridized cultures and the distinctions become progressively more ________:
Blurred
The two cultures begin growing together and the original culture can sometimes be _____ or _____ _____ because of the influence of the dominating group:
Lost; forever altered
When a more powerful country goes in and colonizes an area, it is because of a ____ ________ within the other country:
Power Relationship
Feels it has a right to force its culture onto a “____ ______” group:
Less powerful
Occurs because of ______ ways of thinking:
Ethnocentric
Believes it’s essentially _____ the other country:
Helping
Effects of Colonization (4):
- Undermines people
- Makes people feel inferior
- Assumes their way of living is wrong
- Leads to a loss of diversity in cultures
Two cultures growing together. There is, however, power differential; not equal mixing:
Syncretism
Cross-border relations; growth of international exchange and interdependence; flows of large and growing flows of trade and capital investments between countries:
Internationalization
Process of removing government-imposed restrictions on movements between countries to keep an ‘open’ ‘borderless’ world economy:
Liberalization
Synthesis of cultures. Process of spreading objects and experiences to people at all corners of the earth:
Universalization
Social structures of modernity are spread all over, normally destroying pre-existing cultures and local self-determination in the process; sometimes called imperialism and colonization:
Westernization or Modernization
Entails a configuration of geography, so social space is no longer wholly mapped in territorial places, territorial distances, and borders; process that embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions:
Deterritorialization
Types of Globalization (5):
- Internationalization
- Liberalization
- Universalization
- Westernization or Modernization
- Deterritorialization
Relations between the colonial nation and colonized people are similar to those between the dominant _______ class and the ________:
Capitalist; proletariat
Colonial dominations had established patterns of ______ ______ that continued even after nationhood was achieved - in part because former colonies were unable to develop their own _______ and ______:
Economic Exploitation; Industry and Technology
