Geography (1st unit)

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    • an important subject open to discussion and debate
      An issue
    • what are some factors impacting perspective
      Socioeconomic status, Ethnic background, age, schooling, and religious beliefs
    • What are some factors impacting perspective
      Socioeconomic status, Age, Schooling, Ethnic backgrounds, and Religious beliefs
    • Multifaceted, Complex cards, results in complex etc. What kinds of characteristics are these?
      Characteristics of an issue
    • What is an implicit bias?
      Unconscious bias which operates outside of a persons awareness.
    • Conscious bias in which individuals are aware of their prejudices, preferences, and attitudes. what is this definition for?
      An Explicit bias
    • What is a bias?
      A bias is a prejudice or preference for or against a particular point of view.
    • what characteristics should you consider when evaluating validity?- 1) Authorship, 2) Date of publication, 3) Referencing, 4) Form.
    • What is Euphemism? 

      It is the substitution of an inoffensive expression for one that may be offensive or unpleasant to the listener
    • To slant or twist a story to portray and event or situation on that is favorable to a particular point of view or political situation.
      A spin
    • An example of a spin
      instead of saying I had a bad ease of a flu last week. I was sick for 5 days. You can say I took a week of work last week and binged watch tv .
    • What is propaganda?
      It is the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person.
    • Specialized language used in a specific group, profession, or culture used to express idea. Often distinguishes those who belong to a group and those who don't
      A jargon
    • What is a media?
      Media is a form of mass communication (newspapers, television, and radio etc) and the people involved in their production
    • What are some propaganda techniques?
      1)Appeal to emotion 2)Transfer 3)Fear Mongering 4)Bandwagon.
    • Explain Appeal to emotion.
      Appeal to emotion is an attempt to create a strong emotional response to influence behaviour
    • Explain Fear Mongering.
      Creating or exaggerating threats fear to persuade the audience to support a particular cause
    • Explain Transfer.
      Transfer involves transferring negative or positive characters from one person to another.
    • Explain Bandwagon
      Bandwagon aims individuals to adopt a particular decision often by peer pressure
    • Involves exaggerating or manipulating aspects o a story to make it more attention grabbing, dramatic, or entertaining.
      sensationalism
    • What is globalization?
      Globalization is the trend toward greater "interconnectedness between countries, economics, cultures, and societies.
    • What are the different kinds of globalization?
      Economic, Ecological, Cultural, Technological, and political
    • What is cultural globalization?
      It is the spreading or blending of cultural elements, including, ideas, values, traditions, and products.
    • What is political globalization?
      It is the trend towards more uniform political policies as well as greater international cooperation and collaboration.
    • What is technological globalization?
      It is growing global interconnected through advancements in technology like the internet, cellphones, an other digital tools.
    • Economic globalization
      The world's economies are becoming more connected because trade, money moving between countries, and technology are growing quickly and spreading widely.
    • Ecological globalization
      The idea that the world needs to be considered one interconnected ecosystem.
    • What is the social scale?
      Authoritarian and Libertarian.
    • What is the economic scale?
      It is the left, middle, and right wings
    • what does it mean to be a left wing libertarian?
      politics that says the government should have less control over people's lives.
    • What does it mean to be a right wing libertarian?
      they believe that individuals should have the freedom to make their own choices without excessive government control.