Thinking Globally Flashcards

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What is cultural globalization?

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The emergence of new ideas, values and norms

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What is culture?

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Culture is a fluid system that exists in interaction, not places

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What are the theories of global culture?

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Cultural homogenization, Cultural heterogenization, Cultural hybridization

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What is Cultural homogenization?

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Focus on global cultural convergence– highlight the rise of world beat, world cuisines, world tourism, uniform consumption patterns and cosmopolitanism

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What is the main argument of cultural homogenization?

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Accelerating globalization (in the form of global media, information systems huge multinational organizations) is eroding local cultures and traditions– everywhere is becoming similar

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What is Cultural Differentialism?

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Focus on continued cultural difference– highlight local cultural autonomy, cultural resistance to homogenization, cultural clashes and polarization

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What is the main argument of Cultural Differentialism?

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Globalization brings culture into contact and proximity through global media and migration– creates friction and conflict

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What is cultural hybridization?

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Stresses new and constantly evolving forms and identities produced by transnational processes – a cultural element blends into another culture by modifying the element to fit cultural norms

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