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Social Studies Terminology Chapter 3-4
Bold print words out of the Alberta curriculum textbook.
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Social Studies
10th Grade
11/10/2013

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Accommodation
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A process that occurs when people from different cultures come into contact and accept and create space for another. The customs, traditions, technologies, beliefs, and languages of both cultures may be affected.
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Assimilation
Definition
: A process that occurs when the culture of a minority group is absorbed by another culture. The cultural identity of the minority group disappears as its member take on the identity of the other culture.
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Homogenization
Definition
The erasing of differences. When this term is applied to people, it often refers to the erasing of cultural differences so that peoples become more and more similar.
-Unfortunate courses of action destroying certain cultures.
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Hybridization
Definition
The combining of elements of two or more different things to create something new.
-Occurs often in globalized world.
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Integration:
Definition
: The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.
-Opposite of homogenization
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Marginalization
Definition
Groups lacking desirable traits are excluded from society. These groups include poor, uneducated, undesirable color and language. These groups will stay out of acceptance by society unless there is social intervention.
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Universalization of Pop culture
Definition
Culturespread of popular ideas, music, dance, fashion, and other social factors around the world. Usually spread by media and communications technology. It allows culture to mix and change.
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Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (AMMSA)
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a Canadian-based Aboriginal communications society that uses Internet, radio, and print media to promote Aboriginal cultures.
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Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
Definition
Aboriginal Canadian television network that produces programming by and for the Aboriginal peoples.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Definition
Canada's national Anglophone Public Broadcaster of television and radio programming.
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Canada Audio Visual Certification Office (CAVCO)
Definition
the agency that judges Canadian content in Canada's broadcasting industry.
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Canadian Content (CanCon)
Definition
the amount of Canadian participation in Canada's broadcasting industry in such areas as direction, writing, performance, cinematography, music composition, and so on.
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Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC)
Definition
the public authority that regulates and promotes Canadian culture in the broadcast media
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Monoculture
Definition
the uniform global popular culture that results from globalization
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Media transnational
Definition
a mass media corporation that produces television programs, films, music, books, and so on in two or more countries.
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Media Consolidation
Definition
: mergers of media transnationals that result in a concentration of ownership
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Media Convergence
Definition
see media consolidation
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Minority language
Definition
a language spoken by a minority of people in a country.
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Native Woman's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Definition
group founded in 1974 to enhance, promote, and foster the social, economic, cultural, and political well-being of First Nations and Métis woman within First Nations and Canadian Societies.
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Secularism
Definition
the complete separation between matters of state and religion
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Société Radio- Canada (SRC)
Definition
): Canada's national Angliphone public broadcaster of television and radio programming.
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