Social 10-1 AP Chapter 1 Study Guide

🌎 Social 10-1 — Chapter 1 Study Summary

Globalization and Identity

⭐ Main Inquiry

To what extent should globalization shape identity?

The chapter looks at how globalization can affect people's individual and collective identities.

👤 Identity

Identity = the characteristics and experiences that make a person or group who they are.

Your identity can be influenced by:

• Family

• Culture

• Language

• Traditions

• Religion

• History

• Geography/environment

• Experiences

• Values and beliefs

• People who influence you

Individual Identity

What makes you unique as a person.

Examples:

• Your interests

• Personality

• Talents

• Experiences

• Choices

Collective Identity

The identity that people share as members of a group.

Examples:

• Culture

• Language

• Nationality

• Religion

• Ethnic groups

• Traditions

🌍 Context

Context = the circumstances and surroundings that influence how a person's identity develops.

Think:

“What environment or circumstances helped shape who I am?”

⭐ Role Model

A role model is someone who influences or inspires others and is looked up to as an example.

They can influence:

• Values

• Goals

• Behaviour

• Choices

• Identity

🌐 Globalization

Globalization = the increasing connection and interaction between people, communities, businesses, and countries around the world.

It can involve:

• Trade

• Technology

• Communication

• Movement of people

• Ideas

• Culture

• Media

Important idea:

Globalization can bring new influences into a society.

This can affect people's identities and cultures.

🗣 Language & Identity

Language is an important part of identity.

Language can:

• Connect people to their culture

• Help pass traditions between generations

• Create a sense of belonging

• Influence how people understand the world

When a language becomes less common, a group may worry about losing part of its collective identity.

🎭 Culture & Identity

Culture includes things such as:

• Traditions

• Language

• Values

• Beliefs

• Customs

• Food

• Music

• Art

Globalization can introduce people to other cultures.

This can lead to both opportunities and challenges.

🔄 Acculturation

Acculturation = when a person or group adopts some traits of another culture.

Think:

ACCULTURATION = adopting cultural traits

It doesn't necessarily mean completely giving up your original culture.

🤝 Accommodation

Accommodation = when different cultures accept and make space for one another.

Think:

ACCOMMODATION = cultures coexist

🌎 Homogenization

Homogenization = cultures becoming more alike.

A concern with globalization is that widespread global products, media, languages, and ideas could make different cultures increasingly similar.

Think:

HOMOGENIZATION = becoming more alike

🪶 Lubicon Cree

This is VERY important for your quiz because you've already worked with it.

The Lubicon Cree faced challenges to their identity, land, and traditional way of life.

Government and identity

In 1942, a federal official decided that some people were not Aboriginal and removed their names from the band list.

This challenged the Lubicon Cree's identity as a separate Aboriginal nation.

Fighting to affirm their identity

Chief Bernard Ominayak and many Lubicon refused to give up their identity.

In the 1980s, they launched a campaign to:

• Gain recognition of their claim

• Receive compensation for what they had lost

• Obtain a reserve on the shore of Lubicon Lake

They also received support from:

• International organizations

• Other Aboriginal people

• Groups such as Friends of the Lubicon

⭐ Main lesson from the Lubicon example

Globalization and outside economic activities can affect local communities, cultures, and identities.

But groups can respond by fighting to protect and affirm their identity.

🛢 OPEC & Lubicon Connection

OPEC stopped shipping oil to the United States during an oil crisis related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

This caused the global price of oil to increase dramatically.

The United States then looked toward Canada's oil resources, including the oil sands.

This connected a global economic event to impacts on the Lubicon Cree's territory.

Why this matters:

It shows how something happening far away can have consequences for a local community.

🌲 Daishowa

Daishowa, a Japanese paper-manufacturing company, was granted logging rights in Lubicon territory.

This affected the Lubicon because their traditional way of life depended heavily on the land.

🧠 KEY TERMS TO MEMORIZE

🚨 If you only memorize 5 things tonight:

1. Individual identity → what makes YOU unique
2. Collective identity → identity shared by a GROUP
3. Acculturation → adopting traits from another culture
4. Accommodation → different cultures making space for each other
5. Lubicon Cree → globalization/outside forces challenged their way of life and identity, so they fought to have their identity and claims recognized.
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