SS Unit 1 vocab

Globalization

A term used to describe how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place. (Trading between countries for material they would not have otherwise (Bananas in Canada). A culture spreading over the others (Roman Empire))

Individual identity

The concept you develop about yourself that evolves over the course of your life. (E.X. race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical attributes, personality, political affiliations, religious beliefs, professional identities)

Accommodation

A process that occurs when people from different cultures come into contact and accept and create spaces for one another. (Allowing woman to wear hijabs, allowing certain cultures to carry around spiritual items)

Official Language Act

The official languages of a country (Canada having both French and English)

Assimilation

One culture loosing it self due to time (Inuktitut language disheartening due to the youth not being able to speak it) or due to another culture taking it over (Aztec empire). Becoming like the others

Cultural Revitalization

The process of reclaiming and re-evaluating cultural practices, traditions, and values that have been lost or marginalized due to historical or contemporary factors.

Outsourcing

The practice of hiring a third-party company or individual to perform tasks or provide services instead of doing the work yourself.

Collective Identity

An identity that belongs to a group of people (Soccer team, classroom, school)

Integration

The action or process of combining two or more things in an effective way

Homogenization

The reduction in cultural diversity through the popularization and diffusion of a wide array of cultural symbols—not only physical objects but customs, ideas and values.

Marginalization

The act of treating someone or something as if they are not important

CRTC

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

A public organization that regulates and supervises the Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications systems to ensure that Canadians have access to a world-class communication system.

Pluralism

A situation in which people of different social classes, religions, races, etc., are together in a society but continue to have their different traditions and interests.

CanCon

Canadian audio and television content (in the context of official requirements that broadcasters must air specified amounts of Canadian material).

Media Convergence

The process by which computer devices and digitization bring together various media technologies.

Pop Culture

Popular culture that is transmitted through media and is aimed at the younger audience

Democracy

The word democracy comes from the Greek words "demos", meaning people, and "kratos" meaning power; so democracy can be thought of as "power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the people.

Acculturation

Cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture.

Linguistic identity

Linguistic identity refers to a person's identification as a speaker of one or more languages.

Cultural content

The symbolic meaning, artistic dimension and cultural values that originate from or express cultural identities.

Multiculturalism

A society where many different cultures live together.

Minority Language

A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. Such people are termed linguistic minorities or language minorities.

Official Bilingualism

The ability to speak two languages fluently. the habitual use of two languages. (Canada)

Minority group

A subgroup of the population with unique social, religious, ethnic, racial, and/or other characteristics that differ from those of a majority group.

Universalization

A process of homogenization towards the utopic idea of universal unity and an obligation to the presupposition of universality.

Transnational

Extending or operating across national boundaries.

APTN

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network is a Canadian specialty channel. Established in 1992 and maintained by governmental funding to broadcast in Canada's northern territories, APTN acquired a national broadcast licence in 1999.

Hybridization

Globalization allows for and also causes interaction between cultures worldwide. Consequently, different cultures interact with each other, resulting in a hybrid culture.

Media Concentration

Concentration of media ownership, also known as media consolidation or media convergence, is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media.

Bill 101

A bill that was implemented to make French the main language in Quebec