2 Dimensions
A global social media movement pressures governments to sign a climate treaty.
Social + Political
A school changes its holiday calendar to include celebrations from multiple religions.
What is accommodation
Standardized shipping containers allow products to move efficiently from ships to trucks to trains worldwide.
What is Transportation?
This practice occurs when a corporation moves production to another country to reduce labor costs.
What is outsourcing?
Name 5 things exchanged on the silk road
Silk, Jade, Spices, Ivory, disease ,slaves, gold, Wine, Cultures and religion (Buddhism)
A teenager develops their own fashion style and music taste that reflects their personal preferences rather than what their peer group follows.
What is Individual Identity?
A smartphone allows users to watch movies, read news, and listen to podcasts on one device.
What is Media Convergence?
Global fast-fashion production increases textile waste in developing nations.
Economic + Environmental
Social media trends causing youth across continents to dress and speak similarly.
What is homogenization
A business conducts virtual meetings across three continents in real time.
What is Communication Technology?
This occurs when multinational firms rely on short-term, low-skill labor with minimal advancement opportunities.
What are McJobs?
Identify two dimensions of globalization present in the Lubicon case and explain their interaction.
Economic (oil extraction) + Environmental (land damage)
OR
Political (government permits) + Social (identity disruption).
Members of a community share language, traditions, ceremonies, and a strong sense of belonging tied to their cultural heritage.
What is Collective Identity?
A small group of companies controls most global film, television, and music production.
What is Media Concentration?
International mining operations contaminate water sources relied on by multiple countries.
Economic + Environmental
A migrant professional adopts a Western name, accent, and dress style to advance career opportunities, abandoning prior cultural markers.
What is assimilation
A global news network broadcasts the same political event to audiences worldwide simultaneously.
What is Media?
This concern arises when factory employees work long hours for low wages in unsafe environments.
What are poor working conditions?
Identify two dimensions of globalization present in the Banana wars and explain their interaction.
Economic Dimension — Focus on profit, cheap labour, and corporate control of production and trade.
Social Dimension — Worker exploitation, low wages, and poor labour rights affect people’s quality of life.
The worldwide expansion of these corporations shapes individual identity through branding, advertising, and lifestyle marketing.
What are Transnational Corporations?
This type of society allows multiple cultural, religious, and ethnic groups to maintain their unique traditions while coexisting within the same country.
What is a Pluralistic Society?
A country restricts religious symbols in public institutions to reinforce national secular identity.
Political + Social
A global music genre blends Caribbean rhythms, American hip-hop, and Korean pop influences into a new hybrid sound consumed worldwide.
What is acculturation
A clothing brand sources cotton from India, manufactures in Vietnam, and sells in Canada.
What is Trade?
This economic advantage allows corporations to lower prices by producing goods in massive quantities.
What are economies of scale?
Identify two dimensions of globalization present in the Colton and the Congo case and explain their interaction.
Social Dimension — Child labour, lack of education, unsafe working conditions.
Economic Dimension — Children are used as cheap labour to maximize mining profits.
Political Dimension — Militias and armed groups control mines and fund wars.
What challenges to identity might an immigrant face while trying to assimilate? List 3
(open to interpretation)
This development drastically reduced shipping costs and time, accelerating economic globalization by making international trade more efficient.
What is Containerization?
A country introduces strict data privacy laws that limit how foreign tech companies can collect user information. As a result, several TNC's restructure their global business models and relocate parts of their operations.
Political + Economic
A city redesigns public spaces to include multilingual signage, prayer spaces, and culturally inclusive architecture to reflect demographic change.
What is accommodation
Satellite internet expands market access for remote businesses in developing nations.
What is Communication Technology?
This effect occurs when large “box-store” retailers reshape local economies through scale and pricing power.
What is the Walmart Effect?
To pressure Europe during the banana wars, the U.S. used this economic weapon.
What are tariffs on European exports?
This secularism legislation in Quebec sparked national debate over religious freedom, and identity
What is Bill 21
Government funding for Indigenous language programs and the reintroduction of traditional ceremonies are examples of this identity-preserving process.
What is Cultural Revitalization?