Sampling of definitions with sentences Flashcards
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Wealth invested with the intent to produce profit.
Capital
Treating identities as being historically set as innate and unchanging
Essentialism
Those people who according to Marx must sell their labor to survive
Working Class (Proletariat)
The study of the music of any of the various human cultures.
Ethnomusicology
The study of cultural changes to adapt to the
environment.
Culture ecology
The spread of a dominant culture at the expense of the other cultures along with the imposition of the dominant culture on others.
cultural imperialsim
The process by which borrowed forms modify to adapt to local culture.
indigenization
The principle that governments should refrain from regulating private enterprise thereby allowing free markets to operate.
Laissez-faire
The owners of the means of production such as the factories.
bourgeoisie
The means of production are owned and controlled by the government.
Socialism
The blurring and breakdown of established canons, boundaries, and categories as multiple identities emerge within a time and space beyond classic, elite, and Western
cultural forms.
Postmodern
Social system based on wealth and power differences transcending national boundaries.
transnationalism
Social scientist who identified three dimensions of social stratification: wealth, power, and prestige.
Max Weber
Property is owned by the community, while people work for the common good.
communism
Promotes the ability of Indigenous people to exercise sovereignty regarding land, economy, knowledge, and culture systems.
Decolonization
Predicted to accelerate in response to population growth, climate change and spread of infectious diseases
Political, economic, and cultural domination of a geographic space occupied by humans and dominated by a foreign power for an extended period.
Colonialism
An organization “founded in Paris on 21 May 1904, with a view to organizing the world’s most popular sport. The foundation act was signed by representatives from France, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland that day”
FIFA (French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association)
An object, event or other form which evokes an aesthetic reaction in humans.
Art
An intense emotional response.
Catharsis
A nation with system of production and position in the world considered weakest among other nations.
periphery
A nation with system of production and position in the world considered intermediate relative to other nations.
Semi periphery
A nation with advanced system of production and possessing dominant position in the world.
core nation
A nation which descends from core to semiperiphery (1620 -1700).
