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.

아시아의 현대적 전통관현악단들: 정체성의 정치학

Abstract: Western art music, when it arrived to non-Western regions, has undergone the process of cultural globalization. When it was actively absorbed by the Asian developing countries it was incorporated with locally different methods of adaptation. For the non-Western regions, the West stood for ``superiority`` itself. just as the Western hegemony has conquered the non-West. The large-scale and formulated orchestra (which played symphonies as the peek of instrumental music) was perceived as the symbol for Westernization and modernization in the developing countries who strived to re-establish themselves modeling after Western societies. The orchestra consisting of Western instruments, through modernization, gave birth to various national communities as symbol for development, and has further exerted a great influence upon the performance of traditional music. China was the first in founding a grand scale traditional musical orchestra in the 1920s followed by Japan in the 1960s, when various modern traditional musical ensembles were created, inspiring the foundation of grand scale Korean music orchestras in Korea, DPRK, and Koreans residing in Japan. From late 1960s to mid 1980s, large-scale modern traditional orchestras were created in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. Such grand scale orchestras sometimes incorporated Western instruments. With the emergence of Western style composition, arrangement, and conductor, which did not exist in Asia before, they actively pursued Westernization and modernization of traditional music. However, even with such apparent attempts at westernization, these local orchestras began negotiating and constructing their identities, representing their national, ethnic, and local ideologies. This paper attempts to understand the modernization process of Asia by examining case studies and some of the repetitive symptoms found in the modern traditional musical orchestras that have created their new political movement in conflict with various identities found in modern Asia. This will especially reveal the ways in which modern and Western were adapted by the Asian cultures, how the process of creating its meaning has developed, and how modernization taken by traditional music in the local regions as a strategy for ``survival`` took place. Moreover, by looking at how the desire for development modeled after the west came to create a different meaning in Asia, we shall be able to understand the meaning of modernization from its political, social, cultural, and musical points of view.

Olympics Sports and Modernization of Chinese Traditional Sports Culture

Abstract: The paper discusses basic features of Chinese traditional sports culture from the perspective of main part of Confucianism,Buddhism,and Taoism,and reviews unique characters of modern Olympic through the attribute of society,sports,and culture.It is put forward that the modernization of Chinese traditional sports culture becomes active for the intervention of Olympic sports.The Chinese traditional sports culture needs "modernization" but not westernization,and modernization should not make the national spirit lost in entry of Olympics.

XIX. Yüzyılda Kurumlaşma ve Hastahaneler II

Abstract: The institutionalization movement that began in the Ottoman Empire in 1703 in the name of westernization, created new institutions that differed from the traditional Ottoman institutions. This was re-launched by the state institutions in the first years of 19th century. It could be said that these institutions wasn’t established as a whole in an organised way. It could only be realized one by one as needs arose through the passage of time gradually. This article is concerned with the royal sanitarian complexes built within the context of the 19th century institutionalization, the properties of Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Vakif Guraba Hospital and the structuring projected by Mimar Kemalettin within Istanbul Medical Faculty.

The Indian family and the diagnostician

Abstract: The article explores some of the pitfalls encountered by medical practitioners in therapeutic contact with the South African Indian Family. Despite the vicissitudes of urban life (in particular, education , industrialization and Westernization) the nuclear household comprising the traditional Indian joint family segments, does not lose the traditional close-kin network and bonding. Nevertheless, the anthropologis considers it vital for any medical practitioner administering therapy, to be aware of the socio-religio-cultural propensities of the patients, particularly when the society in question is exposed to acculturation.