Cultural Globalization Flashcards
(23 cards)
Cultural Globalization (Chapter 17) author
John Tomlinson
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.
Globalization
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.
Connectivity
This is dimension that dominates the imagination and the language of corporate business, of politicians and of anti-globalization activists alike.
Global Connectivity
It is primarily as oriented towards the construction of socially shared meanings.
Cultural Processes
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.
Culture
It is constitutive of the whole complex network of global market connectivity in micro.
Consumer Activity
The system integration of myriad small individual actions into the workings of the social institutions which appear autonomously to govern our lives.
Reflexivity of Modern Life
It implies a form of cultural imperialism.
Cultural Globalization
It is made in 1284 that is attributed to the English cartographer Gervase of Tilbury.
Ebstorf Mappa Mundi
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.
Jerusalem
It is the scene of the Christian God’s creation of mankind.
Garden of Eden
These are the privileged direct link to God, where Jews accept the humanity of the other people who celebrate their false gods.
Chose People
They tendentially excludes non-believers from the very universality of mankind.
Christian universalism
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.
Christian Ecumenism
He reminds as that many other cultures, besides the Christian ones, have denied the status of ‘human beings’ to strangers and so.
Terry Eagleton
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.
Karl Marx
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.
Communist Manifesto
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.
World Citizenship
It is where understanding the effects of globalization as they are felt within.
Localities
It implies the loss of the natural relation of culture to geographical and social territories.
Deterritorialization
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.
Telemediatization
It might be considered as the very tendency to form institutions and to generate regulators of social-economic-cultural behavior.
Modernity
