Our World

Class Summary 2-1

Class Summary 2-1
February 1, 2006
Block 4

Mrs. Hartman was absent today.

Class Activities:

1. Trivia: What is the capital on the Wisla River?
2. Discussed the Earthly Visions video worksheet.
3. Filled out notes within the new packet.

Homework:

1. Read pages 31-36 with the Ch. 2 Reading Guide (due by the test date)
2. If you haven’t yet finished the Ch. 1 Reading Guide, you have until the test date.
3. Finally, we were given a cross word puzzle sheet with an unknown due date.

Notes:

Cultural Coherence and Diversity: Geography of Tradition and Change….
Cultural Imperialism: The active promotion of one’s cultural system over another.
Cultural nationalism: Defending a cultural system against offensive cultural expression while actively promoting local/national values.
Cultural Syncretism or hybridization: The blending of elements of culture to form a new one.

Language and Culture: Includes a variety of aspects, (ex: politics, religion, customs)
1. Dialect
2. Lingua Franca
Religion is an extremely important, defining trait of cultural groups
1. Universalizing religion
2. Ethnic religion
3. Secularization
Geopolitics: describes the close link between geography and political activity
1. State
2. Nation
3. Nation-state
Micronationalism: group identity with the goal of self-rule within an existing nation-state.
Centrifugal forces: cultural & political forces acting to weaken/divide an existing state.
Centripetal forces: Forces that promote political unity & reinforce the state structure.

Terrorism
1. Asymmetrical warfare: The difference between a superpower’s military tech. & strategy.
2. Colonialism: Formal rule over foreign pop.
3. Decolonialization: colony gaining/regaining control

Economic & Social Development
Core-periphery model: U.S., Canada, West Europe, and Japan me up the core.
Development: indicates structural changes.
Measuring Economic Wealth
1.GDP
2.GNP
3. GNI: Value of all final goods/services
Purchasing Power Parity: A comparable standard Market basket.
Economic Growth Rate: Annual rate of expansion for GNP

Mortality rate under 5 yrs: measure of the # of children who die per 1,000 persons.
Adult illiteracy rate: % of male/female who cannot read.
Female Labor force participation: % of nation’s labor force that’s female.

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