Globalization and Culture
TL;DR: Tomlinson's Globalization and Culture as mentioned in this paper explores the structural fluidity of culture as a keen sensor for detecting the volatile climate of globalization, while raising probing questions as to culture's inexorable association with a fixed locality, increasingly vexed under the conditions of globalization.
Abstract: Culture is, perhaps, one of the most ethereal of concepts that impede categorical transparency and analytic consistency. For some, culture is amarker of difference, representing an ensemble of collective routines. For others, culture is only an effect of differentiation, whose chimerical boundaries are drawnwith such apocryphal dualism as self-other, us-them, here-there, and the Western–the Oriental. In his book Globalization and Culture, Tomlinson shrewdly exploits the structural fluidity of culture as a keen sensor for detecting the volatile climate of globalization, while raising probing questions as to culture’s inexorable association with a fixed locality, increasingly vexed under the conditions of globalization. Attending the poignant encounter of culture and globalization, Tomlinson provides a set of guideposts that lucidly charts the steep alteration of humanboundaries and social consciousness.At the heart of this project lies Tomlinson’s ambition to reappraise cosmopolitanism as the intellectual infrastructure for the globally interconnected world. At the heart of this project lies Tomlinson’s six chapters ofGlobalization and Culture involve issues, debates, and concepts vital to understanding the shifting contours of human life, traversed with the plateaus of modernity, imperialism, geography, media technology, capitalism, and cosmopolitan consciousness. Each chapter retains unique agendas within the thematic coherence of cosmopolitanism and offers an array of informed dialogues with many of the sociological luminaries, including Giddens, Hannerz, Harvey, Bauman, Hall, Robertson, Deleuze, and Massey. Tomlinson is a skilled navigator who cruises through the rough crosscurrents of postcolonialism, political economy, cultural studies, critical sociology, and human geography without sinking into the abyss of knowledge exhibitionism. The first two chapters of Globalization and Culture cogently address why culture matters to globalization and vice versa. In these chapters, Tomlinson represents globalization as both an irrefutable reality and a condensed image of human relations stretching across geographic boundaries. To unravel the mechanisms of globalization more concretely, Tomlinson brings to the fore the notion of “complex connectivity,” which refers to “the rapidly developing and ever-densening network of interconnections and interdependences that characterize modern social life” (p. 2). This is a statement that earnestly avows the existential entanglement between self and other, wherein “the myriad small everyday actions of millions” are linked with “the fates of distant, unknown others and even with the possible fate of the planet” (pp. 25-26). “Complex connectivity” is by no means a conceptual novelty; rather, it bears close kinshipwith “interconnections” byMcGrew (1992), “flows” byLash andUrry (1994),
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TL;DR: The Rise of the Network Society as discussed by the authors is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information, which is based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
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This ambitious book is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
The global economy is now characterized by the almost instantaneous flow and exchange of information, capital and cultural communication. These flows order and condition both consumption and production. The networks themselves reflect and create distinctive cultures. Both they and the traffic they carry are largely outside national regulation. Our dependence on the new modes of informational flow gives enormous power to those in a position to control them to control us. The main political arena is now the media, and the media are not politically answerable.
Manuel Castells describes the accelerating pace of innovation and application. He examines the processes of globalization that have marginalized and now threaten to make redundant whole countries and peoples excluded from informational networks. He investigates the culture, institutions and organizations of the network enterprise and the concomitant transformation of work and employment. He points out that in the advanced economies production is now concentrated on an educated section of the population aged between 25 and 40: many economies can do without a third or more of their people. He suggests that the effect of this accelerating trend may be less mass unemployment than the extreme flexibilization of work and individualization of labor, and, in consequence, a highly segmented socialstructure.
The author concludes by examining the effects and implications of technological change on mass media culture ("the culture of real virtuality"), on urban life, global politics, and the nature of time and history. Written by one of the worlds leading social thinkers and researchers The Rise of the Network Society is the first of three linked investigations of contemporary global, economic, political and social change. It is a work of outstanding penetration, originality, and importance.
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TL;DR: Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or anargument about "commoditization", and very often the two arguments are closely linked as discussed by the authors. But these arguments fail to consider that at least as rapidly as forces from various metropolises are brought into new societies they tend to become indigenized in one or other way.
Abstract: Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or an argument about 'commoditization', and very often the two arguments are closely linked. What these arguments fail to consider is that at least as rapidly as forces from various metropolises are brought into new societies they tend to become indigenized in one or other way: this is true of music and housing styles as much as it is true of science and terrorism, spectacles and constitutions. The dynamics of such indigenization have just begun to be explored in a sophisticated manner
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TL;DR: Lash and Urry as discussed by the authors argue that today's economies are increasingly ones of signs - information, symbols, images, desire - and of space, where both signs and social subjects - refugees, financiers, tourists and fl[ci]aneurs - are mobile over ever greater distances at ever greater speeds.
Abstract: This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of `society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space.
Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflexive social actors and organizations. The consequence is not only the much-vaunted `postmodern condition' but also a growth in reflexivity.
In exploring this new reflexive world, the authors argue that today's economies are increasingly ones of signs - information, symbols, images, desire - and of space, where both signs and social subjects - refugees, financiers, tourists and fl[ci]aneurs - are mobile over ever greater distances at ever greater speeds.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs, the rise of the network society, the information age a practical game development with unity and blender, and summary of the literature univerzita karlova end of millennium, information age economy society and end of the 20th century.
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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: The Enlightenment Project Revisited: Gregor McLennan as discussed by the authors, and the Question of Cultural Identity: Stuart Hall, and the Enlightenment Project revisited: Gregoryor McLennaan.
Abstract: Preface. Introduction. 1. Liberalism, Marxism and Democracy: David Held. 2. A Global Society: Anthony McGrew. 3. Environmnetal Challenges: Steven Yearley. 4. Post--Industrialism and Post--Fordism: John Allen. 5. Social Pluralism adn Post--Modernity: Kenneth Thompson. 6. The Question of Cultural Identity: Stuart Hall. 7. The Enlightenment Project Revisited: Gregor McLennan. Acknowledgements. Index.
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