cultural globalization.ppt

Cultural Globalization The View on Cultural Change from Globalization Frameworks Hyperglobalizers: homogenization of world under American popular culture or Western consumerism Political Sceptics: thinness of global culture relative to national cultures. Cultural differences and conflicts along geopolitical faultlines. Transformationalists: intermingling of cultures and peoples: hybrids and new forms What is Culture? What is Culture? Social construction, articulation ad reception of meaning (Held, et al 1998) The arts Commodified output of the culture industries (Film, TV, Music) Spontaneous expressions of everyday life Complex interactions between all of these What is Culture? Religion Ethnicity Nationalism Language Other forms of Identity The importance of forms of Communication Cultural Globalization-concepts Cultural globalization: the transmission of culture globally Facilitated by the movement of people, objects, signs and symbols. Travel Movement of books and cultural artifacts Key: forms of communication and transportation Cultural Globalization-Concepts Stretching Diffusion Deepening: wearing the groove deeper Diverse encounters: Homogenization Contestation Hybridization Indifference Cultural Globalization-Concepts Is it all Coercion? Proselytism Evangelism Empire Better: “Modes of interaction” Imposition Emulation Diffusion: hierarchical, contagious, relocation Cultural Globalization-Concepts Infrastructures and Institutionalization: regularized and embedded change Transportation and communication technologies Social organization and systems: shipbuilding, mapmaking, shipping companies, international satellite companies, regulatory regimes, TV programming Languages: educational systems, training of teachers Cultural Globalization: Historical Perspective World Religions Empires Modern national cultures Transnational secular ideologies Contemporary cultural globalization Cultural Globalization: Historical Perspective World Religions: Christianity,