MODULE 4 Flashcards
(30 cards)
1
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- is a complex whole that includes Knowledge, Belief, Custom, Art, Morals, Law, and Any other capabilities and habits acquired by a society.
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Culture
2
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- Intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe
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Cultural Globalization
3
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Influence of Religions in a Globalized Society
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- Politics
- Economic
- Culture
4
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- Islam is a State Religion - in Iran
- Islamic Rule is Superior form of Gov’t (Khomeini)
- Church of England
- U.S. Modern Secular society
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Politics
5
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- Congregations (Multi-billion dollar infra)
- Schools
- Charities
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Economic
6
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- Established Identities
- Values and Ethics
- Human Dignity and Freedom
- Wage Peace
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Culture
7
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- Opportunity to Expand (Pro-active force)
- Fundamentalists’ reservation (Techno- advancement vs Materialistic identity)
- there was a propagation of religion for Christianity and
Islam
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Religion as Pro Globalization
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- Trojan Horse (some Muslims) - metaphor for hiding true intention
- Anti-poor (some protestants)
- Throw-away culture (Pope Francis - Catholic church)
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Religion as Anti-globalization
9
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The Future of Religion
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Decline or Resurgence
10
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Decline in Religion
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Secularism
11
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- “the rational world view is related to the emergence of science, which proposes a new interpretation of the world that competes with the religious world view.”
E.g., Copernican (heliocentrism) that displaces the earth-centered cosmology of the Catholic Church (400 years ago).
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Scientization
12
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- “An attempt to determine social life in a rational fashion, thus further liberating it from religious influence.”
E.g., Solving crime in big cities, we rely on social scientists, not on Christian ethics
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Sociological interpretation
13
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- is what occurs when religious values and beliefs are recouped with non-religious values and beliefs. The secularization definition refers to a decline in the importance of religion and the supernatural or sacred.
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Secularization
14
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What is the main purpose of Media?
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Media
15
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- “a means of conveying something such as channel of
communication”
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Jack Lule’s
16
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- “Medium is the Message”
- “any medium is the extension of ourselves
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Marshall McLuhan
17
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- “Mediated Culture” It shows, reflect and creates or shapes one’s culture
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Sociologists
18
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- is an appropriate expression used in the place of a phrase or words that may be found inappropriate or
offensive.
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Euphemism
19
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- Americanized World characterized by capitalistic values - Consumerism - Herbert Schiller
*irrational & wasteful - states that Western nations dominate the media around the world, which in return has a powerful effect on Third World Cultures by imposing them Western views and therefore destroying their native cultures.
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Cultural Imperialism
20
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- In 2008, He asserts that the contemporary era is
“Furiously Religious”
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Peter Berger
21
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- He is a media theorist who once declared that “the
medium is the message.” and “any medium is the
extension of ourselves”
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Marshall McLuhan
22
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- For him, cultural imperialism refers to the American Empire’s “coercive and persuasive agencies, and their capacity to promote and universalize an American ‘way of life’ in other countries without any reciprocation of influence.
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Herbert Schiller
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- For him, cultural globalization is simply a euphemism for “Western cultural imperialism” since it promotes “homogenized, Westernized, consumer culture.”
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John Tomlinson
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- is the propensity to consume and keep consuming.
- It is the drive to buy and own more stuff, and to define one’s identity through what they own. Economists view consumerism as a positive for consumer spending and GDP growth.
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Consumerism
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- is the practice of designing products, services and
internal operations to facilitate expansion into international markets.
Internationalization
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- an approach to economics that emphasizes responsible public management of economic problems in a world-system context.
Keynesianism
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- refers to a company or individual delegating tasks (typically reserved for an in-house employee) to a third party for them to complete on behalf of the company.
Outsourcing
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- plays an essential role in the global governance of health and disease; due to its core global functions of establishing, monitoring and enforcing international norms and standards, and coordinating multiple actors toward common goals.
World Health Organization
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- After the Islamic Revolution, there were two approaches about the globalization in Iran: One approach attempts to consider globalization as a phenomenon of cultural invasion. The second approach is interaction with the West through join or membership at organizations such as the World Trade Organization.
Iranian Government
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This country has been one of the most globalized developing countries after Malaysia's independence. Globalization helps to economic development and growth. For instance, the exports of a Country increase and the consumer welfare has been improved because we can exports our goods and services to another country
Malaysian Government
