GLOBALIZATION Flashcards
(30 cards)
When society fails to recognize and value the identity or culture of smaller group within that society.
Marginalization
Cultures being absorbed into another culture.
Assimilation
The combination of two or more different things to create something new.
Hybridization
The process by which individuals and corporations being more interdependent and interconnected.
Globalization
The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
Urbanization
The gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology (ICT), and those that don’t have access.
Digital Divide
Popular trends in the world.
Pop Culture
When individuals and groups of individuals from different culture come into continuous contact, which leads to changes in culture of either one or both groups.
Acculturation
Efforts to grow or restore a culture.
Cultural Revitalization
Mixing multiple culture together.
Integration
When a minority culture is treated as less important or less powerful than another culture.
Marginalization
The process of different cultures blending together into one single culture.
Homogenization
The process of a culture being absorbed into another, more dominant culture.
Assimilation
The merging of social practices and norms from different communities, leading to new social behaviors and relationships.
Social Hybridization
When elements of different cultures mix, resulting in new cultural expressions.
Cultural Hybridization
Influencing how people interact and identify themselves.
Cultural Influence
Access to the general public. Can be through mass media and the internet.
Accessibility
What is Medium?
How information is delivered around the world.
“The spread of one popular culture around the world.”
Universalization of Pop Culture
The phenomenon of the entire world becoming more interconnected as the result of the advancement of media technologies throughout the world.
Global Village
The process of increasing variety or expanding into different areas to reduce dependence on a single source.
Diversification
An enterprise that is involved with the international production of goods or services. Companies around the world (ex. McDonalds)
Transnational Corporations (TNC)
The existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
Cultural Diversity
When individuals take on values and beliefs of a culture while maintaining their own culture in the private sphere
Accommodation
