Chapter 12

Syncretism

Syncretism

________- Combining different beliefs into a new harmonious whole often as a response to colonialism or globalization.

Selective importation

________ and exportation- the ability of individuals to decide whether or not to adopt a new product or idea made available through globalization and to determine the ways in which it will be used.

Fair trade

________- Set of agreements between producers and buyers to maintain living wages independent of the market.

Habitus

________- the dispositions, attitudes, or preferences that are the learned basis for personal "taste "and lifestyles.

Mediascape

________- Flow of media across borders.

Transnationalism

________- Peoples lives may be lived across borders influenced by event across borders.

Commodity chain

________- Series of steps a food takes from Producer to the store.

Globalization

________ (Manfred Steger)- The intensification of worldwide social relations which link distance localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice vera.

Lifestyle

________- Ways in which individuals perform various social identities.

Glocalization

________- Adaptation of global ideas into locally palatable forms.

Financescape

________- Flow of money across political borders.

Technoscape

________- Flow of technology.

Conspicuous consumption

________- the display of one's sense of self through the purchase and conspicuous use of various goods.

Salsa Dance

________- Celebrates a global form of dance adapted to local styles.

Neoliberalism

________- the ideology of free- market capitalism emphasizing privatization and unregulated markets.

Homogenization of culture

________- the concern that the rapid expansion of the leisure market would decrease the diversity of cultural products consumed by the populace.

Globalization (Manfred Steger)

The intensification of worldwide social relations which link distance localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice vera

Ethnoscape

Flow of people across boundaries

Commodity chain

Series of steps a food takes from Producer to the store

Global North

wealthier countries of the world

Global south

poorest countries of the world

Ideoscape

the global flow of ideas.