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  1. 1The process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group.Acculturation
  2. 2The process whereby individuals learn their group's culture, behavior and values though experience, observation, and instruction.Enculturation
  3. 3A spatial region or concept of division over which a state or organization has a level of cultural, economic, military, or political exclusivity, accommodating to the interests of powers outside the borders of the state that controls it.Sphere of Influence
  4. 4A commercial enterprise that operates substantial facilities, does business in more than one country and does not consider any particular country its national home.Transnational Companies
  5. 5A social phenomenon grown out of the heightened inter connectivity between people and the receding economic and social significance of boundaries among nation statesTransnationalism
  6. 6The increasing economic integration and interdependence of national, regional and local economies across the world through an intensification of cross-border movement of goods, services, technologies and capital.Economic GlobalizationEcon
  7. 7The lowest stratum of the proletariat, used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants and unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class.Lumpen-proletariat
  8. 8The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital not production means, must earn their living by selling their labor.Proletariat
  9. 9The severance of social, political, or cultural practices from their native places and populations.Deterritorialization
  10. 10A phenomenon by which the experience of everyday life, as influenced by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, reflects a standardization of cultural expressions around the world.Cultural Globalization
  11. 11Occurs when a group has beliefs and values and feels challenged by virtue of another group having different beliefs beliefs and values.Revitalization
  12. 12In bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden implosion, electric speed heightened human awareness of responsibility to an intense degree.Global Village
  13. 13A specific class of special economic zone. They are a geographic area where goods may be landed, handled, manufactured or reconfigured, and reexported without the intervention of the customs authorities.Free Trade Zones
  14. 14The action of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.Exploitation
  15. 15Refers to the way in contemporary social practices can no longer be primarily defined by their grounding, or embeddedness in the local context of a restricted place and time.Dis-embedding
  16. 16Relating to forms of political philosophy which arise from the adaptation of Marxist thought to accommodate or confront modern issues such as the global economy, the capitalist welfare state, and the stability of liberal democracies.Neo-Marxism
  17. 17Access to healthy food and optimal nutrition for all. Dependent on a healthy and sustainable food system.Food Security
  18. 18People born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964.Baby Boomers
  19. 19(Also known as Generation Y) The demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates when the generation starts and ends. Researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.Millennials
  20. 20The generation born after the Western Post–World War II baby boom. Demographers, and commentators use beginning birth dates ranging from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.Generation X
  21. 21The crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population.Natural Increase Rate
  22. 22Occurs when death rate is greater than birth rate.Natural Decrease
  23. 23Refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.Demographic Transition
  24. 24A graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population, which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growingPopulation Pyramid
  25. 25An individual judgement about or active hostility towards another social group.Prejudice
  26. 26A thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things, but that belief may or may not accurately reflect reality.Stereotype
  27. 27A method used to prevent pregnancyBirth Control Pill
  28. 28A statistical measure of how long a person may live, based on the year of their birth, their current age and other demographic factors including gender.Life Expectancy
  29. 29The natural capability to produce offspringFertility
  30. 30The total number of live births per 1,000 of a population in a year.Birth Rate
  31. 31Faulty or imperfect developmentMaldevelopment
  32. 32The theory that elements of human culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structureStructuralism
  33. 33Is a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.Functionalism
  34. 34Recognizing the ethnic diversity within different societies by studying the experiences of all of the various ethnic groups and rejecting the urge to judge based on what the majority sees.Inculsionism
  35. 35The extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality.Feminist Theory
  36. 36A sociological theory that attempts to explain why society functions the way it does by focusing on the relationships between the various social institutions that make up society (e.g., government, law, education, religion)Structural Functionalism
  37. 37The theory of how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify themLabelling Theory
  38. 38______ states that social structures within society may pressure citizens to commit crimeStrain Theory
  39. 39The idea that if someone does not have close bonds to society or people they are less likely to care about breaking rules.Control Theory
  40. 40A theory developed by Edwin Sutherland proposing that through interaction with others, individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal behavior.Differential Association
  41. 41Punishment by deathDeath Penalty
  42. 42An opportunity at which an accused hopes to favourably influence the court passing sentence, by convening a conciliatory pre-sentence meeting between offender and victim.Sentencing Circle
  43. 43Feeling of fear, confusion, dread, etc. brought on by technologyTechnosis
  44. 44The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself.Influence

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