social vocab ch1-3

Communications technologies

Tools and systems used to send, receive, and share information across distances, such as the internet, phones, television, and social media.

Media convergence

The merging of different forms of media (print, broadcast, internet, telecom) into shared digital platforms, so one device or company delivers many types of content.

Media concentration

The ownership of many media outlets by a small number of companies, which limits the diversity of voices and perspectives available to the public.

Hybridization

The blending of elements from two or more cultures to create a new, combined cultural form. ex. The Metis people, they’re a mix of French and Indigenous people who eventually became their own people with their own culture and language.

Universalization

The spread of a cultural practice, product, or idea until it is adopted by people around the world.

CRTC

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission; the agency that regulates and supervises Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications, including enforcing Canadian content rules.

CAVCO

Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office; the agency that certifies film and television productions as Canadian content so they qualify for tax credits.

Jargon

Specialized words or expressions used by a particular group, profession, or activity that outsiders may not understand.

Economic globalization

The growing worldwide integration of economies through trade, investment, and the movement of goods, services, labour, and capital across borders.

Social globalization

The spread of ideas, information, values, and cultural practices among people worldwide through travel, migration, and communication technologies.

Political globalization

The growing influence of international organizations and agreements on how governments make decisions and the increasing cooperation among countries (e.g., UN, WTO).

Environmental globalization

Recognizing that environmental issues such as climate change and pollution cross borders and require international cooperation and action.

Context

The circumstances, setting, or background (historical, social, cultural) that gives meaning to an event, idea, or statement.

Globalization

The process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected economically, politically, socially, culturally, and environmentally.

Collective

A group of people who share common interests, goals, or characteristics and who act or are viewed as a whole.

Collective identity

A sense of belonging to a group, based on shared characteristics such as culture, language, history, religion, or values.

Individual identity

A person's sense of self, shaped by their own personality, beliefs, values, experiences, and choices.

Transnational corporation

A large company that operates and has facilities in many countries, often with significant economic and political influence.

Economies of scale

The cost advantage a business gains as it increases production, since the cost per unit falls as output rises.

Biodiversity

The variety of living things (plants, animals, microorganisms, and ecosystems) in a particular area or on Earth as a whole.

Homogenization

The process by which cultures become more alike, often through the dominance of one culture, resulting in a loss of cultural diversity.

Acculturation

The process of a group or individual adopting traits, values, or practices of another culture through prolonged contact, which can be voluntary or forced.

Accommodation

Adapting to or accepting aspects of another culture while still keeping one's own cultural identity.

Assimilation

The process in which a minority group gives up its own cultural traits and adopts those of the dominant culture.

Cultural revitalization

Efforts by a cultural group to revive, strengthen, and preserve its language, traditions, and practices that have been lost or are declining.

Alter-globalist

a movement where people believe the good aspects of globalization should happen and benefit people rather then just the massive transnational corporations like trade and sharing ideas with people around the world.

cultural contact

when two different cultural groups or people come in contact through trade, tourism, migration etc. when this occurs it can cause different cultures to share ideas, resources, technologies.

Digitization

using digital technology to help with workflow and business and make your job more efficient.

glocalization

thinking globally while acting locally ex. mcdonalds menu is different around the world depending on what culture they're catering to

hyperglobalist