Mid Term Second Sem Flashcards
(31 cards)
refers to the unified style of human knowledge, beliefs, and behavior from which people learn, and the ability to communicate knowledge to the next generations.
Its development has been mainly influenced by media.
Culture
It means middle and is often used to describe its location between the media industry or institution creating the content
Media
five stages of Media are:
Oral communication
Script
Printing press
Electronic media
Digital media
Language allowed humans to communicate and share information.
Moreover, language became the most important tool for exploring the world and the different cultures.
It helped people move and settle down. Oral communication led to markets, trade, and cross – continental routes.
Oral communication
Script allowed humans to communicate over a larger space and for a much longer duration.
It allowed the permanent codification of economic, cultural, religious, and political practice.
Knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors were written and made available for transmission to the next generation and to other nations and cultures.
Script
This era of media development had an impact in globalization by transforming various institutions such as schools, markets, businesses, churches, governments, and armies, among others.
Printing press
The wide reach of these media continues to open up new perspectives in the economic, political, and cultural processes of globalization.
Electronic media
In politics, candidates often use this media as their campaign tools. In economics, it serves as a platform for advertisement of products and online business transactions.
DIGITAL MEDIA
They views cultural difference as immutable. As the West and non – Western civilizations interact or are brought in contract through globalization, clash of civilizations such as that of the West and Islam logically follows.
Cultural differentialism
It suggests that globalization or brings about a growing sameness of cultures.
Cultural convergence
it suggests that globalization spawns an increasing and ongoing mixing of cultures.
Cultural hybridity
It is coined from globalization and localization, is a rather new concept brought about by the increased frequency of contact among cultures.
Glocalization
According to them, the former (cultural hybridization) is an increased mixing of different cultures while the latter (glocalization) is the accommodation by local culture of foreign ones
Brazalote and Leonardo 2019
cultural configuration which characterize the experience of everyday life in specific, diverse and identifiable localities
Local culture
way of life that is governed by a set of ideas, beliefs and values that are based on the exposure and consumption of cultural products uniformly produced for everyone irrespective of their background.
Global culture
it is evident that the presence of global culture may cause to what?
erosion to local cultures
It include the improvement of the way things are being done or being thought off, doing away with obsolete and inefficient practices, or clearer understanding of things that we experience.
Positive effects
consequences may be that things that are already good and working may be replaced with something worse, being efficient but not effective, or being confused on how things really work.
Negative effect
Big businesses may flourish, but smaller scale ones would suffer; this benefits the rich more than it does the poor. These are things that happen when global culture causes what?
erosion of local ones.
It mean that old ones will be disposed of even if they are still working perfectly fine, which means that it generates more waste than necessary.
influx of new products
It is affected by the changes brought about by globalization, particularly through the realm of information technology.
Religious practices
a collection of cultural belief systems and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and moral values.
Religion
According to them there are 4 events where globalization caused the most changes in religion that we could see nowadays
Brazalote and Leonardo
After World War II, nationalism was very much related to religious affiliation, hence to a specific set of beliefs.
Religious nationalism