ISS 210 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Regional Power, Cultural Relativism, Nationstates

• School: MSU
• Department: Integrative Studies Social Sci
• Course: ISS 210
• Professor: J. Yelinek

Document Summary

Ethnocentrism: seeing one"s own culture as the center of the universe while all other cultures are deemed insignificant and inferior. Cultural relativism: the degree to which an individual judges other cultures by their context one culture should not be judged based upon the criteria of another. Globalization: the process of increasing interconnectedness between societies such that events in one part of the world are having more and deeper effects on people and societies far away. Global village: marshall mcluhan"s description of a world in which the world is considered a single community linked by telecommunications. Transformationalist: transformationalists believe that globalization represents a significant shift, but they question the inevitability of its impacts; they argue that there is still significant scope for national, local, and other agencies. Still need other agencies of power other than global. Traditionalist: traditionalists believe that most economic and social activity is regional, rather than global, and they see a significant role for nation-states.