global culture
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| culture | what we have grown up with; its our programming; the ways of living
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| culture is... | not good, not bad, just different
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| demographics | the world's study of people/ population; topics of birth, death, marriage, and migration
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| subcultures | smaller and more distinctive groups within a culture
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| examples of subcultures: | language, clothing, diet, music, and tradition
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| Hearth | the place where cultural ideas form and spread
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| example of cultural hearth: | hip hop in the Bronx in '73
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| cultural convergance | when cultures collide; results in exposure; art, skills, ideas, and habits of one culture encounter another culture. ex: Amexica
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| cultural diffusion | the spread of cultural traits across distances
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| acculturation | when a cultural trait becomes adopted by a different cultural group
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| Assimilation | when cultural traits become adopted and traditional culture is left behind in favor of the new culture
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| cultural divergance | isolating a part of society; attic policy and north korea
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| how many people live on earth? | more than 6 billion
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| population density | the average number of people per square mile
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| why is population growth a problem? | because 2/3 of the earth is covered by water and half of that is unlivable due to mountains, deserts, extreme cold, and rain forests
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| how have we helped population growth to make more space? | cutting down trees, plowing soil, damming rivers, grazing livestock, and adapting to environment (wearing thicker clothes in Alaska), and build high buildings to stack people instead of stretching across the land
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| how do you calculate population density and how can that be misleading? | divide total population of a region by the land's area. Misleading bc for example Egypt has a big pop density but all the people are living along the Nile river.
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| who can sometimes create isolation and what type of gov doesn't create this isolation | government can create isolation to keep people under control and democratic gov doesn't do this
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| where do the majority of people in the us live? | east half of country and on edge of west coast
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| food= what | people
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| what countries are lit? | japan, america, and europe
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| what types of countries does the 'light off' show | countries that are rich; can afford electricity (Africa and part of US have same pop, but with lights off it looks like no one lives in Africa)
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| what city in incredibly diverse? | NYC
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| level of density will affect what? | the culture
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| why are death rates and birth rates no longer equal? | better meds, food, and safer housing and surroundings
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| push factors | reason you have to leave a place
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| pull factors | reason you go to a place
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| push factor examples | unemployment, bad gov, war, lack of resources, over population,
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| pull factor examples | internet access and electricity, stable gov, peace, freedom, abundance of resources and jobs
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| immigrants | people who move/ arrive to a country
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| emmigrants | people who leave a country
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| urbanization | movement of people to the city and the growth of cities
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| rural | countryside
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| how to tell if a it is a country | territory, population, government, and Sovereignty
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| population in order to be a country: | does not matter how big it is
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| government in order to be a country: | does not have to b a good government
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| territory in order to be a country: | size doesn't matter
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| sovernreingty | Independence... doesn't look to or rely on anyone else
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| unitary systems | (parent and child) one central gov runs nation... make local gov want sovernreignty... parent chooses what child is responsible for
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| federal systems | (married couple) some power given to national gov and some to local gov. we pay taxes to both and can be arrested by both... national and local gov argue... divorce from marriage... civil war and confederate states of america
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| confederation system | (a group of friends deciding on a restaurant) gov only has limited power... everyone does their own thing... local has more power than overall national gov
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| authoritarian : extent of power | gov is not limited
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| democratic: extent of power | gov limited by consent of the people
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| authoritariann: Control of people | one person holds all power; power and respect kept by threat of force; army pledges allegiance to leader; army is most respected job; leader surrounded by army projects power and strength
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| democtratic: control of people | power is held by representatives who are chosen by voting
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| authoritarian:civil liberties | rights not guarenteed
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| democratic: civil liberties | rights are protected by Bill of rights
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| Authoritarian: elections | if an election is held, there is no real choice because there is only 1 party.
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| Democratic: elections | election offer a choice of the candidate representing multiple parties
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| Authoritarian: rule of law | gov doesn't always have to follow their law
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| Democratic: rule of law | people and gov have to follow rules set by constitution
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| Authoritarian: types | monarchy (king and queen rule), dictatorship(one single person runs gov), totalitarian(extreme dictatorship; one person runs economy, gov, and people's social and personal lives)
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| Democratic: types | constitutional monarchy (king and queen are basically mascot), direct democracy (everybody votes on everything), representative democracy (vote for people and tell them to represrnt you bc you dont have time/lazy)
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| Traditional economy | Families; produce for personal production; very little surplus; little good exchange
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| market economy | cash in charge of America; we demand and they supply; consumers want fidget spinners.. they are made; private businesses supply and if we don't buy, they go out of business. gov checks in to make sure everything is legal and clean. price and production
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| command economy | Gov controls everything. who owns businesses, determines production, operates businesses
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| pickle farmers example!!! | soviets don't care about look or quality, as long as its made and everyone gets even $...... American take risks and compete with other businesses and everything isn't fair
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| market system produced... | risk and reward, choice, better products, general sucess
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| command economy produced... | low quality items, equal not fair, bad workers, general failure
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| china | highest pop, market and democracy
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| North Korea | command and authoritarian
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| usa | market and democracy
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