Theories Flashcards
This refers to obstacles that stop or slow down the exchange of cultural practices, ideas, or goods that could otherwise make cultures more similar. These barriers can be physical, such as geographical distances or legal restrictions, or intangible, like religious, political, or ideological differences
Cultural Differentialism
1. Barriers that prevent flow
This means that even in the face of globalization or the spread of similar technologies and ideologies, many cultures resist blending into one. Cultural traditions, values, and practices are often preserved, keeping one group distinct from another.
Cultural Differentialism
2. Cultures tend to remain stubbornly different
the broadest level of culture and cultural identities
Civilization
Huntington identified major civilizations, such as Western, Islamic, Sinic (Chinese) Hindu, and others. He predicted that these large cultural groups would come into conflict as they defend their values and ways of life.
Civilizational Identity
The boundaries between these civilizations would be the “fault lines” where future conflicts would erupt. For example, Huntington pointed to the longstanding tensions between the Western and Islamic worlds
Cultural Fault Lines
The boundaries between these civilizations would be the “fault lines” where future conflicts would erupt. For example, Huntington pointed to the longstanding tensions between the Western and Islamic worlds
Cultural Fault Lines
Huntington argued that religion would be a major in uniting people within civilizations and also in distinguishing them from others. For instance, the rise of political Islam was seen as an example of a civilization asserting its cultural identity against the West.
Resurgence of religion
He suggested that the values and worldviews of different civilizations are often incompatible, leading to inevitable friction as these groups interact more through globalization.
Incompatability of values
is the mixing of cultures and the integration of the global and the local leading to unique combinations
Cultural Hybridization
- interpenetration of the global and the local resulting in unique outcomes in different geographic areas.
Glocalization
external flows interact with internal flows producing a unique cultural hybrid that combines elements of the two
Hybridization
involves a combination of languages and cultures that were previously unintelligible to one another
Creolization
is when cultures are subject to many of the same global flows and tend to grow more alike.
Cultural Convergence
cultures imposing themselves, more or less consciously, on other cultures.
Cultural Imperialism
imports by non-Americans of that which is closely associated with America/ Americans
Americanization
