InClass Exercise

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In-Class Exercise

• How would you define globalization?
• What is one specific example of processes of
  globalization?

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Aspects of Globalization

• Political
• Economic
• Cultural

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Overlapping Processes
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Barber, Jihad Vs. McWorld

• Features of McWorld
• Imperatives leading to McWorld
• Market imperative
• Resource imperative
• Information-technology imperative
• Ecological imperative
• Features of Jihad
• Fate of democracy?

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Cultural Impacts of Globalization

• Homogenization thesis
• Melting-pot model
• Cultural imperialism
• Fragmentation thesis
• Uniting of territorial communities, dividing of
  relational communities

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Hall on National Cultures

• National cultures as discourses
• Are national cultures really unifying identities?
• Implications of globalization for national
  cultures? 3 possibilities
• Erosion of national identities
• Strengthening of national and local identities
• Emergence of new hybrid identities