2nd assignment: Cultural globalization---ZHANG LINYUE

Summarize

    Exploring the relationship between globalization and culture requires a separate understanding of the two terms. First, globalization is a complex, accelerating, globally connected, multidimensional process of integration occurring simultaneously in the fields of economics, politics, technological development, environmental change and culture. Cultural processes are mainly oriented towards the construction of shared social meanings. Culture is the meaning that emerges from life and the willingness of people to sacrifice these other needs to fulfill their beliefs about the purpose of existence and good ends. In summary, culture is a dimension that globalization both influences and simultaneously produces and shapes.

   Culture enhances global connectivity through consumption activities. But the discussion of the relationship between culture and globalization cannot be limited to the question of the global distribution of cultural goods. What we want to observe is the significance and appropriation of commodities that have already begun to be globalized. The connectivity of globalization brings very different cultures into closer contact.

   Globalization is changing the "locality" life of the majority of people, gradually producing a de-territorialization. De-territorialization means that culture is no longer so "bound" to the constraints of the local environment. In mainstream sociological treatments of culture, the tacit assumption is that culture is a spatially bounded entity, somehow parallel to the bounded, integrated entity of "society". But the complex connectivity of globalization undermines this conceptualization, challenging the rather narrow thinking that initially paired culture with fixity.

    The idea of a progressive, cosmopolitan cultural politics implies an attempt to clarify and reconcile the attachments and values of cultural difference with those of the emerging broader global human "community". As globalization distributes the institutional features of modernity across all cultures, it thus produces these institutionalized forms of cultural belonging. Globalization has instead become an important force in the creation and diffusion of cultural identities.


Interesting

The interesting point to me is that the online social media we use in our daily lives is surprisingly a de-regionalized and culturally globalized exchange.


Discussion 

In this era of rapid cultural exchange and dissemination, what criteria should we use to measure the quality of culture?







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