Unit 9: Globalization: c. 1900 - Present

Vocabulary flashcards related to globalization.

Globalization

The increasing economic, political, and social interconnectedness of the world.

Communications Technology and Globalization

New forms of communication reduced the problem of geographic distance and changed the world.

Shipping Technology and Globalization

New forms/modes of transportation reduced the problem of geographic distance and changed the world.

Energy Technologies and Globalization

New energy technologies raised productivity and increased the production of material goods, changing the world.

Medical Technology and Women's Control

More effective forms of birth control gave women greater control over fertility, transformed reproductive practices, and contributed to declining rates of fertility in much of the world.

Medical Innovations

Increased the ability of humans to survive and live longer.

Agricultural Technology and Globalization

The Green Revolution and commercial agriculture increased productivity and sustained the earth’s growing population as it spread chemically and genetically modified forms of agriculture.

Green Revolution

Started in the 1950s and 60s, scientists used genetic modification to create new strains of high-yielding grain crops.

Globalization and Disease

Environmental factors affected human populations over time, like emergent epidemic diseases.

Diseases Associated with Poverty

Environmental factors affected human populations over time, like diseases associated with poverty, as did medical and scientific developments.

Diseases Associated with Aging Populations

Environmental factors affected human populations over time, like diseases that have a higher incidence merely because they are associated with increased longevity.

Climate Change Debate

The release of greenhouse gases and pollutants into the atmosphere contributed to debates about the nature and causes of climate change.

Free Market Economics

This helps to explain the continuities and changes in the global economy from 1900 to present.

Growth of Knowledge Economies

In the late 20th century, revolutions in information and communications technology led to the growth of knowledge economies in some regions.

Industrial Production in Asia and Latin America

In the late 20th century industrial production and manufacturing were increasingly situated in Asia and Latin America.

Changing Economic Institutions

Changing economic institutions, multinational corporations, and regional trade agreements reflected the spread of principles and practices associated with free-market economics throughout the world.

Globalization and Culture

Political and social changes of the 20th century led to changes in the arts, and in the second half of the century, popular and consumer culture became more global.

Globalized Society

Arts, entertainment, and popular culture increasingly reflected the influence of a globalized society.

Global Consumer Culture

Consumer culture became globalized and transcended national borders.

Globalization changed international interactions among states.

United Nations (successor to the League of Nations) was created after World War II. It was created to accomplish two purposes: to prevent war and facilitate cooperation among the world’s nations.

Social categories, roles, and practices have changed over time.

Member nations are expected to uphold those rights, but some are more aspirational than real world realities.

Increased access to education

In much of the world, access to education as well as participation in new political and professional roles is more inclusive in terms of race, class, gender and religion.

Globalization Encouraged Reform

In much of the world, access to education as well as participation in new political and professional roles became more inclusive in terms of race, class, gender and religion. Movements protested the inequality and economic consequences of global integration as well.

Environmentalism

This is an example of how social categories, roles and practices have been challenged over time as groups protested the environmental consequences of global integration.

Exploitative practices

This is an example of how social categories, roles and practices have been challenged over time.

Anti-globalization movement

This is an example of how social categories, roles, and practices have been challenged over time and groups have come to protest against the inequality that resulted from global integration.