Social 10 Globalizing Forces Ch2

Companies that sell the same products worldwide

• Homogenization
• Transnational Corporation
• Assimilation
• Media Concentration

a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media.

• Transnational Corporation
• Economies of Scale
• Media Concentration
• Media Convergence

the use of electronic technology to integrate media such as newspapers, books, TV and the internet

• Cultural Revitalization
• Accomodation
• Transnational Corporation
• Media Convergence

savings that are achieved by producing, using, and buying things in large quantities

• Economies of Scale
• Media Convergence
• Media Concentration
• Transnational Corporation

variety in plant and animal species

• Economies of Scale
• Acculturation
• Biodiversity
• Media Convergence

the process in which a group become similar with one another

• Acculturation
• Transnational Corporation
• Media Convergence
• Homogenization

cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate or adapt to each other's worldview

• Economies of Scale
• Acculturation
• Media Concentration
• Media Convergence

a process that occurs when people from different cultures come into contact and accept and create space for one another. The customs, traditions, technologies, beliefs and languages of both cultures may be affected.

• Transnational Corporation
• Accomodation
• Media Concentration
• Media Convergence

The process in which a minority group is forced to live their lives a cetrain way due to another culture

• Acculturation
• Assimilation
• Homogenization
• Biodiversity

the process of affirming and promoting people's individual and collective cultural identity

• Biodiversity
• Assimilation
• Cultural Revitalization
• Economies of Scale