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Criminology
10th Grade
09/28/2011

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Issue
Definition
A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute.
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Point Of View
Definition
an individual opinion about a matter baced on there experiences.
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Perspective
Definition
a group's opinion about a matter that has developed because of the group's experiences.
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Globalization
Definition
the result of beacomig more world wide or global.
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Identity
Definition
an individuals way of expressing him self to make who he is.
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Context
Definition
the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation.
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Role Model
Definition
Some one whom others look as an example to emulate.
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Collective
Definition
A group of which a person belongs and identifies with.
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Transnational Corporation
Definition
A company that is baised in one county while developing and manufacturing its products, or dilivering goods and sevices in more than one country
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Media Concentration
Definition
The gathering of ownership of news papers and other media in the hands of a few large corporations.
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Economics of Sales
Definition
Savings that are achieved by producing, using, and buying things in large quantities
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Biodivercity
Definition
Many life forms in an area
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Homogenization
Definition
the erasing of differences
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Accultuation
Definition
the cultral changes that occour when 2 or cultures accomidate, or adaped to, each other worldviews.
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Accomidation
Definition
A process thatt occours when people from different cultures come into contact and accepet and creat space for one another
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Assimilate
Definition
A prosses that occours when the culture of a minority groupis absorbed by anouther culture.
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Cultural Revitalization
Definition
The process of affirming and promoting peoples individual and collective cultural identity.
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Digital Divide
Definition
The gap that separates people who do and do not have access to up to date digital technology.
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Propaganda
Definition
Ideas and information spread for the purpose of achieving a specific goal.
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Pop Culture
Definition
A short form for "Popular culture" which is the culture of the people. this term refers to the current cultural trends that are spread by commercial mass media
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Universalization
Definition
the spread of culture, trends, costumes, and practices around the world
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Hybridization
Definition
the combining of elements of two or more different things to creating something new
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Cultural Content Laws
Definition
Cultural content laws are government laws protecting a group’s culture from being assimilated within another culture, or from otherwise disappearing
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Cultural diversity
Definition
Variety in culture and identities
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cultural contacts
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depopulation
Definition
a reduction in POPULATION
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Iternational trade
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mercantilism
Definition
from the 16th and 17th centuries, a system of government-sponsord international biusness ventures disiened to make europ monarcs rich
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