SOCIAL STUDIES 10-1 – FINAL COURSE REVIEW

INTRODUCTION

1. What are the different perspectives on globalization?

2. What is an issue? What are elements of an issue?

3. What is meant by a “Powerful Question”?

4. Define Globalization

5. What is meant by the globalized north and south?

6. Identify what a Francophone reference is and give examples

7. Identify what an Aboriginal reference is and give examples

UNIT I (Chapters 1-4)

TO WHAT EXTENT SHOULD GLOBALIZATION SHAPE IDENTITY?

8. How do we define who we are? What factors are involved in both defining and expressing this?

9. What is a transnational corporation? What role do they play in the global community?

10. Give a definition of communication technology and define its role in shaping globalization

11. Define media concentration and convergence

12. What is Cultural Revitalization? Give and Example

13. What is the Digital Divide? Give and example of how people try to close the divide

14. What is the APTN and how has it impacted the Aboriginal Community?

15. Define the term media. What are some examples of how media plays a role in our globalized world

16. What is Techno – Isolation?

17. What is Pop Culture?

18. Define Hybridization and give an example

19. What are some example beyond the US that represents Pop Culture and Media?

20. What is an endangered language? Give and example

21. How can governments play a role in promoting language and culture?

UNIT II (Chapters 5-8)

TO WHAT EXTENT SHOULD CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY RESPOND TO THE LEGACIES OF HISTORICAL GLOBALIZATION?

22. Outline the Different viewpoints on where and how globalization began

23. What is historic globalization?

24. How did the rise of the middle class and new technologies contribute to globalization?

25. Define Mercantilism, How did it decline?

26. What were the effects of contact by Europeans on Indigenous North Americans?

27. What was the impact of slavery?

28. How did people respond to slavery?

29. What is the Grand Exchange? How did it impact the food source of the world’s population?

30. Briefly outline what happened during the time of the Industrial Revolution and its impact on globalization

31. Define Ethnocentrism and Euro centrism

32. What is an empire?

33. Define Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa?

34. Who is King Leopold and what influence did he have in Africa?

35. How did legacies change historically? Give examples

36. What is depopulation?

37. How was India affected by imperialism?

38. What is GDP?

39. Outline some of the major countries affected by Imperialism in Africa

40. How did globalization affect Canada?

41. Define Depopulation

42. Define Assimilation

43. What are the Numbered Treaties? What legacy did they leave in Canada?

44. What is the Indian act and who is eligible to be a Status Indian?

45. What are Residential Schools and what legacy did they leave?

46. How has diversity in culture affected Historic legacies in Canada?

47. Outline the Rwandan Genocide. Who or what was responsible for the legacy of civil unrest?

48. What role has the United Nations taken in responding to legacies of globalization?

49. What are the significant legacies of globalization left in Canada?

50. What are NGO’s

51. What impact has foreign aid had on dealing with the Global Income Inequity?

52. What is GNP?

UNIT III (Chapters 9-12)

TO WHAT EXTENT DOES GLOBALIZATION CONTRIBUT TO SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY FOR ALL PEOPLE?

53. What is Economic Globalization?

54. What was the economic impact of WWI?

55. What economic impact did the great depression have globally?

56. What were the economic costs of WWII?

57. What was the significance of the UN conference at Bretton Woods?

58. Outline the Economic Ideologies of Keynes and Hayek

59. What is the World Bank and IMF? What role do they play in the global economy?

60. Discuss Gatt

61. Briefly discuss the impact of economic globalization in China

62. How do Communication Technologies, Trade, Transportation and the Media Contribute to expanding globalization?

63. Who are the Maquiladoras of Mexico? Why are they important to expanding globalization?

64. What is the WTO? What economic influence does this organization have?

65. Outline the principles and impact of NAFTA

66. Outline the principles and impact of the EU

67. What economic influence have Transnational Corporations had on global economics? Give some examples

68. What is E – Commerce? How id it connected to prosperity?

69. What does it mean to have an Ecological Footprint? Give Examples

70. What is the Resource gap and how is it connected to sustainability?

71. What is Ship Breaking? What kind of Impact does it have on the Environment and on the people of Bangladesh? How can this impact be changed?

72. What are Flags of Convenience?

73. How can Ship Breaking be sustainable?

74. Outline the successes and barriers of the Kyoto Protocol

75. What is Sustainable Prosperity? How is it connected with global interdependence?

76. What are the 3 major ways to measure prosperity? Explain Each

77. What are the political and economical challenges associated with globalization?

78. Define the Knowledge Economy

79. Explain the process of privatization and the impacts on the economy

100.How are climate change and sustainably prosperity interconnected?

UNIT IV (Chapters 13-16)

TO WHAT EXTENT SHOULD I, AS A CITIZEN, RESPOND TO GLOBALIZATION?

103. Define Human Rights

104. What are the different viewpoints of human rights?

105. How did human rights evolve?

106. What is the Great Law of Peace?

107. What role did the American Constitution, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Canadian Constitution play in the evolution of rights?

108. How have many colonized nations gained Human Rights?

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110. What Factors could have a lasting impact on human rights?

111. Explain how the “Tank Man” in China was a advocate for human rights

113. What is the Ingenuity Gap? What are the problems and possible solutions associated with it?

114. What is the Gender Gap? How can communication be used to combat this gap”?

115. Define Communication Gap

116. How have the trends of equality between men and women changed in our modern society? Are men and women equal in the roles in the government and workforce?

117. Outline the purpose of Unions and Collective Bargaining

118. How have international initiatives lead to the creation of better labor standards?

119. What is the Fair Trade Movement? What impact could it possibly have on closing disparities?

120. Explain the key ideas of the Knowledge Economy

121. How are global awareness and quality of life related?

122. What is Foreign Debt? What role do international funding agencies play?

123. What is a Community? What is a Virtual Community?

124. What are the negative and positive aspects of these communities?

125. Outline the influence of Oil in Africa, Iraq, and Alberta

126. What are the main benefits and problems with the development of oil in Fort McMurray?

127. How are Economic Growth, Social Progress, and Environmental Stewardship interconnected?

128. What is a Pandemic? Give some examples?

129. What impact have pandemics had on global health?

130. How does the global community respond to pandemics? Have they been successful?

131. How do you nurture a civil society?

132. What is Civil Society? What are its roles?

133. What does it mean to be a corporate citizen?

134. What is A Global Citizen?

135. How can you be an active Global Citizen?

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