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Ch.12. vocab
exam 3
Term | Definition |
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globalization | the social processes that are expanding and intensifying connections across nation-states |
cultural hybridization | the production of ideas, objects, practices, and bodies influenced by two or more cultures |
transnational organization | organizations that operate in more than one country |
colonialism | a practice in which countries claim control over territories, the people in them, and their natural resources, then exploit them for economic gain |
global commodity chains | a transnational economic process that involves extracting natural resources, transforming them into goods, and marketing and distributing them to consumers |
global cities | urban areas that act as key hubs in the world economy |
nation-state systems | a world society consisting of only sovereign, self-contained territories |
global slave trade | the practice of kidnapping human beings, transporting them around the world, and selling them for profit |
global power elite | a relatively small group of interconnected people who occupy top positions in globally important social institutions |
global imagined community | a socially constructed in-group based on a shared planet |
risk society | a society organized around the self-conscious production, distribution, and management of risk |