Cultural Globalization

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Cultural Globalization (Chapter 17) author

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John Tomlinson

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It is a multidimensional process, taking place simultaneously within the spheres of the economy, of politics, of technological developments, of environmental change, and of culture.

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Globalization

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It defines our use of communications technologies, but is also characteristic of the urban environments most of us inhabit and it increasingly influences the way we earn our living, the styles of food we eat, the music, cinema and television that forms our entertainment, and our experience of mobility and travel.

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Connectivity

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This is dimension that dominates the imagination and the language of corporate business, of politicians and of anti-globalization activists alike.

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Global Connectivity

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It is primarily as oriented towards the construction of socially shared meanings.

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Cultural Processes

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It is not only a context in which events may be meaningfully interpreted and it is the primordial context in which human agency arises and takes place.

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Culture

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It is constitutive of the whole complex network of global market connectivity in micro.

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Consumer Activity

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The system integration of myriad small individual actions into the workings of the social institutions which appear autonomously to govern our lives.

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Reflexivity of Modern Life

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It implies a form of cultural imperialism.

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Cultural Globalization

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It is made in 1284 that is attributed to the English cartographer Gervase of Tilbury.

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Ebstorf Mappa Mundi

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It is the Holy City that is placed in the center in the Christian theology map, while the orientation of the map places the east at the top where is also depicted the Garden of Eden.

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Jerusalem

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It is the scene of the Christian God’s creation of mankind.

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Garden of Eden

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These are the privileged direct link to God, where Jews accept the humanity of the other people who celebrate their false gods.

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Chose People

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They tendentially excludes non-believers from the very universality of mankind.

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Christian universalism

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Its liberal wing that there are clearly deep inclusivist sensibilities which shade into forms of internationalism sometimes barely distinguishable from secular humanism in their implicit terms of membership.

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Christian Ecumenism

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He reminds as that many other cultures, besides the Christian ones, have denied the status of ‘human beings’ to strangers and so.

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Terry Eagleton

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His depiction of a future communist society provides what is perhaps the most vivid imagination of a global culture to be found in either 19th or 20th century social thought.

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Karl Marx

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It is where Marx and Engels present a bold vision of a future world in which the divisions of nations have disappeared, along with all other local attachments, including those of religious belief.

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Communist Manifesto

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It works in a way that does not impose any one particular, culturally inflected model is perhaps the most immediate cultural challenge that globalization faces us with.

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World Citizenship

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It is where understanding the effects of globalization as they are felt within.

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Localities

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It implies the loss of the natural relation of culture to geographical and social territories.

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Deterritorialization

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A culture that is a key distinction in 21st century where it grasped as a peculiar form of mobility that does not involve actual physical movement.

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Telemediatization

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It might be considered as the very tendency to form institutions and to generate regulators of social-economic-cultural behavior.

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Modernity