Chapter 5 Flashcards
(31 cards)
is an indispensable resource for the curious leader.
World of Ideas
explores the relationship between the media, culture and globalization.
Global Media Cultures
is a set of shared experiences, norms, symbols and ideas that unite people at the global level
Global Culture
is just one reason affect media. People have different behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, hierarchy and religions by cultural differences.
Science and Technology Culture
*Cultures by ethnicity or ethnic sphere (6)
- Western culture
- Indosphere
- Sinosphere
4 Islamic culture - Arab culture
- Tibetan culture
The following are common examples of global culture.
- Business
- Sport
- Holidays & Pastimes
- Fashion.
- Diplomacy.
- Professions…
- Language.
- Travel.
often involve the meeting of cultures with a different socio-economic base, typically a transnational and commercial cultural industry on one side and a national, publicly regulated cultural industry on the other side.
cultural encounters
_____ is organized around a set of thematic areas of particular relevance to the processes of cultural globalization.
same answer.
Thematic Areas
experience of _____ in a global culture, A key element in the analysis, is the loosening of time and space from the bonds of locality and tradition.
modernity
The media have increasingly become an independent institution for socialization and development of cultural identity
Socialization and the formation of cultural identity.
The media and the communication technologies in general have facilitated the formation of collective communities.
Mediated communities and action
An important consequence of globalization is the growth of multicultural societies, in which people of different cultural backgrounds (ethnic, religious etc.) must coexist.
Democracy and political culture
The term _____ is of quite recent provenance. It first appeared in the business and sociological literature of the 1980s, but by the end of the century it had become a broadly invoked expression in both academic and popular discourse around the world.
globalization
therefore focuses on the ways that global capitalism incorporates the world’s regions into a single system.
Economic globalization
_____ in religious perspective is a successor term for what used to be censured as the capitalist system or cognate terms.
globalization
These religions, in virtually every region of the globe includes:
- Christianity
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
of the world are variations on the unitary ones, putting greater stress on, respectively, the difference or the irreconcilability of diverse worldviews.
pluralist visions
The _______ model made famous by Samuel Huntington is represeniative of a negative version
clash of civilizations
_____ perspectives, by contrast, are even more mere variations on the unitary variety: the value of pluralist and egalitarian inclusion here is simply more strongly emphasized.
Pluralist positive perspective
, an urban center that enjoys significant competitive advantages and that serves as a hub within a globalized economic system.
Global city
Government, corporations and nongovernment organizations used demographics to learn more about a population’s characteristics for many purposes including policy development and economic market research.
Global Demography
is a generalized description of the changing pattern of mortality, fertility and growth rates as societies move from one demographic regime to another.
demographic transition theory
Demographic Transitions term was first coined by the American demographer in the mid-20th century, but it has been elaborated and expanded upon by many others.
Frank W. Notestein
Significant number of working-age people in developing countries are underemployed relative to the opportunities they perceive in developed countries
Global Migration
