Sociology of culture: Globalization: A threat to culture?

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/19/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Sociology

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Summary :

Introduction
Meaning of explanation of culture
Two theories about the role of culture
The role of culture in shaping society
Redefining culture
Diminishing and celebrating diversity
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

The post-modern era of globalization can be simultaneously considered as a threat to culture and a medium for bringing previously peripheral cultures onto the world stage. Whether one embraces its new challenges and opportunities or is skeptical towards its implications, everyone can agree that globalization has affected culture in profound ways. In Commanding Heights, Daniel Yergin introduces globalization as "a move to a more connected world in which barriers and borders of many kinds" are dissolving or being removed as a result of improving technology and a shift in "ideas and policies that bring down the barriers to the movement of people, goods and information" (Yergin 2002). On the micro level, globalization has altered the way that everyday people work, consume and communicate on a daily basis. Looking at the big picture, it becomes clear that the technological changes and the "relatively free flow of goods, services, and people" around the world have changed our perceptions of culture, and perhaps the nature of global cultures themselves.