Alberta Social 10-1 Key Revision Questions And Correct Answers
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Alberta Social
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Alberta Social
Globalization the process that is making the world's
citizens increasingly interdependent economically, socially, politically, environmentally, and
technologically
pluralistic society a society in which a diversity of
languages, beliefs, traditions, values, religions and Perspectives on Globali...
Alberta Social 10 -1 Key Revision Questions And Correct Answers Globalization ✔✔✔✔ the process that is making the world's citizens increasingly interdependent economically, socially, politically, environmen tally, and technologically pluralistic society ✔✔✔✔ a society in which a diversity of languages, beliefs, traditions, values, religions and Perspectives on Globalization other aspects of culture are embedded as part of the foundations of the country; a soc iety that respects and values the individual and collective opinions and identities of all people transnational ✔✔✔✔ corporations that operate in two or more countries; also, people who are citizens of more than one country society ✔✔✔✔ a group of people who form an ordered community centred on kinship, an ideology, a religion, or a particular world view Global Village ✔✔✔✔ the idea, popularized by Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s, that the entire world and its inhabitants are be coming one large community interconnected by technology, particularly television United Nations ✔✔✔✔ an intergovernmental organization that was tasked to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve internati onal co -operation and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ✔✔✔✔ an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949 individual identity ✔✔✔✔ the traits that make up a person's sense of individuality collective identity ✔✔✔✔ the combination of beliefs, values, view of history, and language of a people traditions ✔✔✔✔ the customs of a family or culture minority groups ✔✔✔✔ an ethnic, linguistic, or religious group whose numbers are small compared with those of the dominant culture official bilingualism ✔✔✔✔ an official government policy under which a country or province recognizes two official languages, for example, English and French in Canada universalization of pop culture ✔✔✔✔ the production by media transnationals of the majority of television programs, films, magazines and so on that are consumed by a vast world audience hybridization ✔✔✔✔ the blending of media and communications technologies resulting in new modes of expression and cross -cultural consumption Media transnational ✔✔✔✔ a mass media corporation that produces television programs, films, music, books, and so on in two or more countries Media Consolidation ✔✔✔✔ mergers of media transnationals that result in a concentration of ownership CBC/SRC ✔✔✔✔ Canada's national Anglophone public broadcaster of television and radio programming CA VCO ✔✔✔✔ the agency that judges Ca nadian content in Canada's broadcasting industry Official Languages Act ✔✔✔✔ a Canadian law that came into force on September 9, 1969, which gives French and English equal status in the government of Canada. CRTC (Canadian Radio -television and Telecommunications Commission) ✔✔✔✔ the public authority that regulates and promotes Canadian culture in the broadcast media CanCon (Canadian Content) ✔✔✔✔ the amount of Canadian participation in Canada's broadcasting industry in such areas as direction, writing, performance, cinematography, music composition, and so on Homogenization ✔✔✔✔ a trend toward uniformity, as with
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