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Global Sociology Midterm
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
10/22/2013

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Assimilation
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When a group's language or culture come to resemble another group.
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Binational Family
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A Family in which the parents have different nationalities
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Colonialism
Definition
Process in which western nations established their rule in parts of the world away from their home territories
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Culture
Definition
The beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society
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Cultural Imperialism
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The practice of imposing one’s cultural products and values onto other societies, whether they want it or not, destroying native cultures in the process

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Cultural Relativism
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What is regarded as true, valued, or expected in one social system may not be so in another
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Glocalized
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The adaptation of a product or service specifically to each locality or culture in which it is sold
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Industrialization
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Emergence of Machine production, based on the use of inanimate power resources(steam or electricity)
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Industrialized vs. Developing societies
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Industrialized- Majority population Colonizers, highly developed
Developing-Local Population Majority, limited industrialization
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Nation-State
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Particular type of state, characteristic of the modern world, in which a gov't has soverign power within a defined territorial area, and the population are citizens who know themselves to be part of a single nation.
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Ethnocentrism
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The belief that your culture is better than all the others.
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Nationalism
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Is a belief, creed or politicalI ideology that involves an individual identifying with, or becoming attached to, one's nation
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Norms
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"the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. These rules may be explicit or implicit
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Public-Private Partnerships
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Involves a contract between a public sector authority and a private party, in which the private party provides a public service or project and assumes substantial financial, technical and operational risk in the project
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Sociological Imagination
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To have a sociological imagination, a person must be able to pull away from the situation and think from an alternative point of view
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Transnational Migrant
Definition
Migration that crosses the border
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Tragedy of the Commons
Definition
the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to the group's long-term best interests
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Uploading
Definition
Put something on the internet
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Values
Definition
Culturally defined standards held by human individuals or groups about what is desirable, proper, beautiful, good or bad that serve as broad guidelines for social life.
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