Chapter 1 & 2 Vocab. Quiz

Incorporated or unincorporated enterprises comprising parent enterprises and their foreign affiliates.

Proportionate saving in costs gained by an increased level of production.

Group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together to achieve a common objective.

The process of making things uniform or similar.

Economic strategy in which the media properties owned by communications companies employ digitization and computer networking to work together.

Process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media.

Person looked to by others as an example to be imitated.

Circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.

The process of which it removes the social and cultural differences between two individuals, groups and societies.

Assimilate or cause to assimilate a different culture, typically the dominant one.

The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.

Political integration joins multiple nations together to make decisions and establish policies from the European Union. This is an example of

Deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture.

The process by which businesses or other organizations develop for individuals in becoming more interconnected and interdependent.

The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

Aboriginals such as the James Bay Cree, who lived farther south, where wood was more plentiful. The Inuit exchanged their soapstone for wood. This is an example of

Cheap bananas that are tasty, nutritious, uniform in size, and free of blemishes appeal to Canadian consumers. But to keep prices low, banana workers in many countries face challenges. This is an example of