AP Modern World History Flashcards: Calls for Reform and Responses
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How have social categories and roles been impacted over time?
Social categories, roles, and practices have been both maintained by traditional structures and consistently challenged by new movements and discourses.
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How have social categories and roles been impacted over time?
Social categories, roles, and practices have been both maintained by traditional structures and consistently challenged by new movements and discourses.
What are 'rights-based discourses'?
Rights-based discourses are ways of communicating that challenge old assumptions by framing social and political issues in terms of inherent rights for all individuals, regardless of race, class, gender, or religion.
What fundamental issue did movements like Greenpeace and the Green Belt Movement address?
These movements protested the inequality of the environmental and economic consequences that resulted from the processes of global integration.
What is meant by social roles becoming 'more inclusive'?
This means that participation in activities like education, politics, and professional work was opened to a wider variety of people, challenging historical exclusions based on race, class, gender, or religion.
What was the relationship between rights-based discourses and traditional social hierarchies?
Rights-based discourses directly challenged traditional social hierarchies by asserting that rights were universal, undermining assumptions based on race, class, gender, and religion.
What spurred the creation of global movements protesting inequality?
The unequal distribution of environmental and economic consequences resulting from global integration spurred the creation of protest movements around the world.
What was a major global trend regarding access to education and professional roles?
Globally, access to education and participation in new political and professional roles became more inclusive and less restricted by race, class, gender, or religion.
How did increased access to education challenge old assumptions about gender?
By allowing more women into education, they could then participate in new political and professional roles, which directly challenged traditional assumptions about gender roles in society.
What is the Green Belt Movement?
The Green Belt Movement is an organization that protests the unequal environmental and economic consequences of global integration, particularly through community-based tree planting.
Give an example of a movement that protested the environmental consequences of global integration.
Greenpeace is a prominent example of a movement that protests the inequality of environmental consequences stemming from global integration.