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32 Cards in this Set
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Modernization |
the fa-reaching process by which nations pass from traditional forms of social organization toward those characteristics of post-industrial Revolution societies |
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Colonialism |
The maintenance of political social economic and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period |
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Neocolonialism |
Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries |
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World systems analysis |
a view of the global economic system as one divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited |
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Dependency theory |
an approach contending that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own |
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Globalization |
the worldwide integration of govn policies cultures social movements and financial markers through trade and the exchange of ideas |
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Multinational Corporation |
A Commercial organization that is headquarters in one country but operates in several countries |
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Gross National Product |
the value of nation's good and services |
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Remittance |
the monies that immigrants return to their families of origin also called migradollars |
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Human Rights |
Universal moral rights possessed by all people because they are human |
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what is a far-reaching process by which nations pass from traditional forms of social organization towards those characteristic of post-industrial revolution societies |
Modernization |
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how much of total global wealth do the bottom 50% of the worlds population own |
1 Percent |
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which group is the most exploited of oppressed people |
Women |
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Globally approximately how many people subsist on less than 2$ a day |
3 Billion |
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What year did the united nations adopt the universal declaration of Human Rights |
1948 |
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Sex |
Biological difference between men and women |
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intersexed |
people with ambiguous genitalia and or repoductive organs of both sexs |
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Multiple masculinities |
the idea that men learn and play a full range of general roles |
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Instrumental leader |
the person in the family who bears responsibility for the completion of task focuses on more distant goals and manages the external relationship between ones family and other social institutions |
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Expressice leader |
the person in the family who bears responsibility for the maintenance of harmony and internal emotional affairs |
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second shift |
the double burden work outside the home followed by child care and housework -- that many women face and few men share equitably |
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Sexism |
The ideology that one sex is superior to the other |
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institutional discrimination |
a pattern to treatment that systematically denies a group access to resources and opportunities as part of society normal operations |
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Feminism |
the belief in social economic and political equality for women |
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Sexual orientation |
the categories of people so whom we are sexually attracted to member of the opposite sex |
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Homosexual |
a category of sexual orientation that includes those who are sexually attracted to members of the same sex |
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Heterosexual |
a category of sexual orientation that includes those who are sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex |
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Bisexual |
a category of sexual orientation that includes those who are sexually attracted to both men and women |
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Transgender |
people whose gender identity expression and behavior do not conform to their biological sex |
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Transsexual |
people who experience a discontinuity between their anatomical sex and the sex with which they psychologically identify |
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hetersexism |
institutions that privileges heterosexuality over other forms of sexuality |
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both men and women are able to cook but most society think women should perform these tasks |
Gender roles |
