Global Consumer Culture Exam 3

Refers to the use of business marketing techniques in the pursuit of social goals:

Social Marketing

Refers to the use of business organizations and techniques to attain laudable social goals:

Social entrepreneurship

Refers to corporations associating the sales of its products to a program of donations or support for a charitable or civic organization:

Cause-related marketing

Salary transparency is a tool to promote:

Equity

When corporations exaggerate or misstate the impact of their environmental actions or promote products as being more eco-friendly than they actually are:

Greenwashing

A company originally known for its One for One business model:

Toms Shoes

Corporate Social Responsibility strategies emphasize:

A positive impact on the environment and stakeholders

Refers to a corporation’s gifts to charitable organizations:

Corporate philanthropy

Legal owners of capital of a public or private corporation are:

Shareholders

According to the World Bank, what are the three building blocks of social sustainability?

Inclusion, justice, and resilience

Supporting people to be drivers of their own solutions is a source of:

Empowerment

In C2C, the authors refer to the strategic design tool of considering ecology, equity, and economy as:

Triple top line

According to the EPA Sustainability Primer, promoting the development, planning, building, or modification of communities to promote sustainable living is part of which pillar?

Social

In C2C, “respecting diversity” focuses mainly on the social aspect of sustainability

False

In C2C, an "anywhere" building is described as a prefabricated sustainable structure which can be assembled in any location to support people, planet, and the local economy.

False

When using the fractal tool in C2C, the question, "Is it fair to pollute a river or poison the air," is an aspect of:

Ecology/Equity

The average rate of consuming resources and producing waste in the more developed world is 32 times greater than in the developing world.

True

The practice of judging one culture by the standards of another culture is called?

Ethnocentrism

According to the EPA Sustainability Primer: protecting, maintaining, and restoring access to basic resources for current and future generations is referred to as:

Resource security

What is a cultural value for the United States?

Good health, Education, Freedom

Ecology

Living things, the environment and their interactions

Ideology

Certain thinking of a group or social class

World view

Shared ideas & expectations about the world

Ethos

Set of moral principles

Social system

Patterned network of relationships

The movement of the entire earth becoming one culture is:

Monoculture

In Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions, acceptance of a hierarchical order versus striving for equal distribution of power is an aspect of:

Power distance

In Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions, rigid codes of believe versus more relaxed attitudes is an aspect of:

Uncertainty avoidance

If we only achieve the Economic + Social pillars, what would be the result:

Equitable

What are groups or organizations that affect only a small segment of one's life?

Microculture

Incorporating values and beliefs of a different culture into one's life is the definition of:

Acculturation