Westernization

About: Westernization is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1154 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15791 citations. The topic is also known as: occidentalization.

The impact of globalization on india

Abstract: Globalization had made the whole world into a single common place. It is the process which expands and accelerates the movement of people, ideas and exchange of commodities across vast distance (Economic, Political and Cultural Integration). Globalization affects people with respect to their way of life, culture, values, taste, fashion and preferences. India has a rich cultural background and its culture is famous throughout the world. Our deep rooted traditions and customs have loosened up due to the emergence of globalization. Through globalization, the interchange of world views and ideas has resulted in a major transformation of the lifestyle and living standard of people. Indian culture is not an exception to this transformation process. Globalization has not only inculcated westernization and modernization in India, but conversely the Indian culture has also witnessed its impact worldwide. There has been both positive and negative impact of globalization on social and cultural values in India. The socio-cultural environment of a nation plays an important role in molding the future generations. This paper highlights the impact of globalization on India’s Social aspects, Trade, Financial sector and the Socio-cultural changes that have been witnessed post globalization in the Indian society. Throughout this paper, there is an underlying focus on both positive and negative impact of globalization on Indian economy.

Failed modern girls in early-twentieth-century China

Abstract: Both Zhang Henshui, the king of social romantic fiction of Republican China, and Wang Dulu, produced fascinating stories about lower-class young urban women who are embroiled in the city?s modernization/Westernization. Although in their telling, these girls? upward movement to the middle-class Modern Girl status often ends in frustration and defeat, this chapter contends that it makes less sense to dismiss them as old-style women or as remnants of the old society than to see them as what they are: failed Modern Girls. The story of the failed Modern Girl is significant for the anxieties about new class formations that may have been articulated for many an ordinary reader of the early twentieth century. The failed Modern Girl?s failure is attributable at least in part to the self-adjusting modalities of patriarchy. They intimate that the Modern Girl is constantly an unfinished and/or undone project in a world of evolving gender subordination. Keywords: early twentieth century China; failed Modern Girls; gender subordination; Westernization

Political Economy of Production and Reproduction

Abstract: In post-colonial India, the process of political democratization and radically altered legal enactments, especially relating to marriage and inheritance, have changed the dynamics of power relations. The essays included in this volume are selected with a view to achieve an understanding of contemporary north India, along with all its social, familial, and legal contradictions. Spanning the mid nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the author presents a special case study of Haryana. This elucidates how the richest regions in the area continue to be regressive instead of moving towards the modern egalitarian statehood. The in-depth analysis, however, is broadly applicable to the whole of northern India in sharing socio-cultural concerns. The new, greatly liberalized, political economy of the post-Green revolution; globalization marked by conspicuous consumption; and the quasi-urbanization that rural north India has undergone; have all had their fall-out on rural society. These have led to new class formations, westernization, and changes in the notions of social status and power relations. They have, in turn, impacted familial, inter-generation, and gender relations.