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14 Cards in this Set
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Globalisation
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All those processes that the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single global society
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Time-space Compression (Harvey)
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Increasingly getting the sense the world is shrinking
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Glocalisation
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How global pressures and demands are made to conform to local conditions
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Marshalls three citizenship rights |
Civil Rights, Political Rights and Social Rights |
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McDonaldisation |
Proces by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world |
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Imagined Community |
Even the smallest nation will never know most of its members... yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion |
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Apartheid |
An elaborated ideology of state sanctioned and legalised 'separateness' based on racial groups |
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Weber's Iron cage |
The notion of increased bureaucratisation and rationalism of human existence in modern capitalist society |
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Culture |
Raptor of learned ideas, values, knowledge, aesthetic preferences, rules and customs shared by a particular collectivity of social actors |
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Global Social Movements |
Informal organisations working for change on an international scale, but galvanised around a single unifying issue |
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Deterritorialisation |
Globalisation becomes increasingly possible and almost necessary for individuals groups and organisations to shift their activities away from their own areas and to pursue agendas and relationships with actors situated across national borders |
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Nationalism |
An idealogical movement for maintaining autonomy, unity and identity on behalf of a population deemed by some of its members to constitute and actual or potential nation |
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Modernity |
The orientations involved in the growth of a questing spirit, a powerful leaning towards rationality - the search for verifiable knowledge - and the belief in the possibility of transforming the material world in the pursuit of social progress. |
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Bio-sphere |
Comprises the atmosphere, the oceans, lakes, river, together with the varied and complex systems of plant life and living organisms from bacteria to fish, animals and humans. |
