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Global Culture.
Question | Answer |
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Giddens (1990) says that | Technological change has led to globalisation. Goods can be transported to anywhere in the world and information can be quickly transmitted over the globe. |
THis has meant that cultures that were once local have.... | now become global |
Klein (2000) and Sklair (1995) point one that a few large transnational corporations (TNCs) are involved in the majority of..... | cultural productions, making cultural goods that are consumed all over the world. |
Sklair argues that Transnational cooperations and the global media have..... | more power than individual nation states |
Critics of globalisation worry that these TNC's will replace the worlds current cultural diversity with western culture. They refer to cultural globalisation as the..... | cultural imperialism. |
Klein (2000) says theres already a...... | trend towards cultural homogeneity (everyone having the same cultural, wearing the same trainer, eating the burgers and drinking the same fizzy drinks) |
Supporters of cultural globalisation say that its a two way process.Western culture is transmitted into new societies and other identities and cultures get passed back to western societies | other identitys and cultures get passed back into western societies. |
With the movement of people from different cultures and countries to other parts of the world. many countries are now...... | multicultural societies. postmodernists argue that this allows people consume a plurality of cultures- this is called multiculturalisms. they think that globalisation leads to hybridity of cultures rather than one culture being imposed on another. |