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33 Cards in this Set
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transnational firms
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do global business through international subsidiaries and disrupts local ecosystems
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economic convergence
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the worlds poorest countries will gradually catch up to more advanced countries
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sweatshops
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crude factories where workers work for extremely low wages
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bubble economy
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when vast amounts of money flow into a developing country
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areal differentiation
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the differences that distinguish one part of the world from another
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areal integration
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the study of how places interact w/ eachother
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cultural landscape
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the visible material expression of human settlemen, past and present
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rate of natural increase
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the annual growth for a country
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demographic transition
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a 4 stage conceptualization that tracks changesin birthrates and deathrates as a country urbanizes
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urbanized population
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% of a country's population living in cities
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urban primacy
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the city that is larger and dominates econonic, political and culture activities
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urban structure
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the distribution and patterns of land use in a city
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urban form
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physical arrangements of building, streets, parks etc...
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overurbanization
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the urban population grows more quickly then its services
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Squatter settlements
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illegal developements of housing on land that is not owned or rented
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Culture
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learned, not innate, and is shared behavior (way of life)
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Cultural imperialism
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the active promotion on cultural sytems at the expense of another
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Cultural nationalism
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the process of protecting and defending a cultural system
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cultural syncretism or hybridization
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blending of forces to create a new form of culture
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Universalizing religions
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religions that appeal to all people regardless of location or culture
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asymmetrical warfare
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the differnce between a super-power's military compared to lower levels
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centrifrugal forces
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cultural and political forces acting to weaken or divide and existing state
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nation-state
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a homogeneous cultural group with its own fully independent political territory
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centripetal forces
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promote politcal unity and reinforce state structure
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Ethnographic boundaries
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follow cutural traits such as language, religion
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Geometric boundaries
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perfectly staight lines without regard to physical or cultural
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Colonialism
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formal establishment of rule over a foreign population
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Decolonization
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process of colonies establishing a undependent government
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supranational government
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an organization of states linked by a goal
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core-periphery model
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US, Eurpope and Japan are the global economic core
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gross national income(GNI)
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gross domestic product (GDP)
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GNI per capita
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Divide the GNI by a country's population
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Sustaniable population
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an agenda of economic change and growth that seeks a balance with issues of enviromental protaction social equity
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