I A STD 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Consumerism, Underweight, Social Change
12 Dec 2018
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Iasd 1: introduction to international and area studies. Terms and concepts: be able to define/describe and discuss the significance of the following: Views of culture and globalization (hyperglobalizers: homogenization of world under. For culture has long had connotations tying it to the idea of a fixed locality. The idea of culture implicitly connects meaning construction with particularity and location john tomlinson. Hyperglobalizers: homogenization of world under american popular culture or western consumerism. Skeptics: thinness of globalization relative to national and local cultural practices. John tomlinson"s theory of connectivity and the emergence of global unicity". What connectivity means is that we now experience distance in different ways. We think of distant places as routinely accessible, either representationally through communications technology or physically john tomlinson. Connectivity means changing the nature of localities and not just occasionally lifting some people out of them john tomlinson.
