AP®︎ World History: Topic 9.6 Flashcards
Master key terms and definitions for Topic 9.6 of AP World History – Globalized Culture After 1900 to help you prep for quizzes and the AP exam.
Cultural Globalization
The increasingly rapid, large-scale movement of art, entertainment, information, lifestyles, and consumer practices across national and regional boundaries
The increasingly rapid, large-scale movement of art, entertainment, information, lifestyles, and consumer practices across national and regional boundaries
Influence gained through cultural attraction and prestige rather than military force or economic coercion
Jamaican music originating in the late 1960s that spread globally through records, radio, migration, touring, and performers such as Bob Marley
The Hindi-language commercial film industry centered in Mumbai, combining South Asian conventions with global cinema technology and distribution
A major British broadcaster whose international radio and television services carried news, entertainment, and cultural programming across national borders
Digital platforms enabling participatory, many-to-many communication in which users circulate content and cultural trends across borders
A social media platform that enabled users to form networks and circulate images, videos, products, and cultural trends internationally
A social media platform, renamed X in 2023, that enabled users to discuss events and circulate content and trends across borders in real time
A global soccer tournament first held in 1930 that combines mass broadcasting, national identity, international audiences, sponsorship, tourism, and merchandise
International games begun in 1896 that became globally televised competition among state representatives and displays of national prestige
A transnational environment in which widely recognized products, brands, advertisements, and purchases express identity, status, taste, and lifestyle
A Japanese automobile manufacturer whose worldwide sales and production networks made it a global brand associated with reliability and modern consumer life
A globally recognizable American beverage brand spread through bottling, advertising, sponsorships, distribution networks, and locally adapted marketing
The advertising, ordering, and payment for goods and services through digital networks, linking distant consumers and sellers
A United States–founded digital marketplace connecting buyers and sellers, including individuals and small businesses, across local and national boundaries
A company founded in China that developed online platforms linking consumers, retailers, producers, and wholesalers
The growth of shared cultural reference points as people in distant societies recognize many of the same brands, athletes, media, and performers
The apparent reduction of cultural differences as similar products, media, and practices spread among societies
The combination of imported and local cultural forms, such as global production methods joined with local languages, traditions, or tastes
Modern artist who used experimental forms to respond to political violence, most notably in Guernica
Picasso’s 1937 painting using distorted figures to convey the suffering and terror caused by the bombing of Guernica
Entertainment, styles, practices, and cultural products consumed by broad publics rather than only by social elites
Cultural material made available to very large audiences through industrial production and mass media
