Social 10 Exam Review

Related Issue One

100

What is Cultural Revitalization and what is an example?

The process of affirming and promoting people’s

individual and collective cultural identity.

Ex. Reservation Dogs, Indigenous Fashion

200

What is Media Concentration vs Media Convergence?

Media Concentration: The vast majority of media being owned by a select few transnational corporations.

Media Convergence: Various pieces of media technology being combined into one device. 

300

Techno-isolationism.

Although technology enables people to pursue their own interests, this can reduce their sense of community.

400

Companies can achieve this by increasing production and lowering costs (per unit cost).

What is Economies of Scale?

500

Acculturation is this, Hybridization is this, and Accommodation is this.

• Accommodation: When people from different cultures come into contact and accept and create space for each other. It may affect customs, traditions, technologies, values, beliefs, languages,
• Acculturation: The process by which an individual or group adopts the practices and values of one culture while still retaining their own culture of origin.
• Hybridization: Combining of two or more elements to make something new.

Related Issue Deux

100

What is Mercantilism?

 An economic theory and policy from the 16th–18th centuries that aimed to maximize a nation's wealth (gold/silver) by exporting more than it imported.

200

Industrial Revolution led this system to become this other system.

Previously, most goods were made by hand (Cottage Industry) but The “Factory System” relied on employing workers to run large machines, typically in anassembly line.

300

Swadeshi is... 

...a call to the consumer to be aware of the violence he is causing by supporting those industries that result in poverty, harm to workers and to humans and other creatures.

400

These are the two types of land claims.

Comprehensive (where treaties were never signed) and Specific (related to treaty conditions that had not been met).

500

These are the three eras of globalization. 

Silk Road Globalization: 325 BCE - 1400 CE

Historical Globalization: 1492 - WWII (1945)

Modern Globalization: WWII (1945) - Present

Related Issue Tres

100

Who were the Allied Powers? Who were the Axis Powers? (WW2)

• Allies: Britain, USA, Soviet Union

• Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan

200

Who was in the Triple Entente? Who was in the Triple Alliance? (WW1)

➢ Triple Entente: Britain, France, Russia

➢ Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, Austria Hungary

300

What are three reasons Russia left WW1?

• Russians were ill equipped with poor quality weapons and leadership

• 4 million killed, wounded or taken prisoner after the first year

• Food and fuel shortages

• Worker rebellions; soldiers desert to join rebellions…economy collapses

400

List 4 of the 5 factors of Economic growth.

•   Foreign investment
•   Privatization
•   Trade liberalization
•   Knowledge economy
•   Outsourcing

500

Shipbreaking - PEES

• P: North American and Europe have laws that govern how shipbreaking happens; This is why it is often outsourced to countries with no such regulations
• E: Shipbuilding industry grows 8% - high demand to build new and replace old ships // Built mostly in Asia- cheap labour (South Korea, Japan, and China) // lowers costs of registration with Flags of Convenience
• E: Shipyards create large amounts of toxic waste // ballast water
•  S: Bangladesh- workers earn $1.50-2.50 per day to break ships down // Dangerous job- no safety standards

Related Issue Quattro

100

What are Inalienable Rights?

Rights cannot be taken away or transferred.

200

Finland, Norway, New Zealand, and Sweden are the best countries for this, whereas Pakistan, South Sudan, and Iran are among the worst. 

What is the Gender Gap?

300

Union participation is on the decline around the globe over the last number of decades due to...

...increasing reliance on outsourcing to countries that are non-unionized.

400

What is the Ingenuity Gap?

The gap between people's need for new and innovative solutions to problems and their ability to supply those solution.

500

These are the four things that the ILO works to improve:

• Freedom from forced labour
• Freedom from discrimination in the workplace
• A ban on child labour
• The right to organize and bargain collectively

Bits n' Bobs

100

What is Communism?

A political theory advocating for class equality leading to a society where all property is publicly owned and each person is paid according to their abilities and needs.

     -  Rejected capitalism and capitalist countries

200

Ecological Footprint…

...describes the impact people or communities have on the environment.

○ Area of earth’s surface required to sustain the amount of resources used and waste created

○ How much biologically productive land and water resources needed to survive

300

List three things the WTO does.

● Established in 1995 to increase international trade by lowering trade barriers and making trade more predictable

● Ensures that the terms of trade agreements are followed

● Settles trade disputes between governments

● Conducts trade negotiation

400

What does the MAPL System stand for?

• M (music): the music is composed entirely by a Canadian

• A (artist): the music is, or the lyrics are, performed principally by a Canadian

• P (performance): the musical selection consists of a live performance that is recorded wholly in Canada, or performed wholly in Canada and broadcast live in Canada

• L (lyrics): the lyrics are written entirely by a Canadian

500

List five major changes in Europe (after 1347).

1. Rise of the Middle Class - wealth shifts from nobility to merchants and tradespeople
2. Rural to Urban Shift of population
3. Trade becomes the driving force of the economy, not agriculture (money, not land as power)
4. New technologies are created based on foreign technologies (Larger sails, medicines, gunpowder)
5. Columbus discovers the New World in 1492