Chapter 1 Key Terms

The increasing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of economic, political, and cultural change

Do global business through international subsidiaries

The world's poorer countries will gradually catch up with the more advanced economies

Crude factories in which workers sew clothing, assemble sneakers, and perform other labor-intensive tasks for extremely low wages

As vast sums of money flow into a developing country, they create a speculative inflated economy that cannot be sustained

Depicts the annual growth rate for a country or region as a percentage; produced by subtracting number of deaths each year by the number of births divided by population

A synthetic hypothetical number that measures the fertility of a statistically fictitious yet average group of women moving through their child bearing years

Plots the percentage of all age groups along a vertical axis that divides the population into male or female

A four sage conceptualization that tracks changes in birthrates and death rates through time as a population urbanizes

A statistic that depicts whether more people are entering or leaving a country

The percentage of a country's population living in cities

A learned, shared behavior held in common by a group of people empowering them with what could be called a "way of life"

The active promotion of one cultural system at the expense of another

The process of protecting and defending a cultural system against diluting of offensive cultural expressions while at the same time actively promoting national and local cultural values

The blending of forces to form a new, synergistic form of culture