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Globalization as a Generator of Cultural and Economic Hegemony: a Postmodern Perspective

2009· article· en· W1869210298 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
H.M. Ashraf Ali

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VenueCanadian social science · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobalization and Cultural Identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGlobalizationPolitical economyCultural globalizationPoliticsHegemonyEconomic globalizationMainstreamModernization theoryDevelopment economicsPolitical scienceSociologyEconomicsLaw

Abstract

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‘Globalization’-a term that entered popular discourse in the late 1980s has certainly been become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of the new millennium. The nature and impact of globalization has been the subject matter of profound debates and concerns in economic, political, cultural studies and academic circles since the mid-1990s. However, mainstream economic thought promises that globalization would lift the poor above poverty, dissolve dictatorship, protect the environment, integrate cultures, and reverse the growing gap between rich and poor countries of the world. But in reality, globalization has brought about the devastating destruction of the traditions, the continued subordination of poorer nations and regions by richer countries of the west, environmental degradation, and posed a serious threat to indigenous and non-western cultures and economies. The globalization has resulted in the penetration and expansion of western food, film, clothing, music, sports, media, technologies and other forms of popular culture into all parts of the world. However, this paper argues that through the globalization processes, like colonization, modernization, the west is exploiting and exerting dominance over the others countries’ economies, cultures, and traditional way of life with its capitalistic economic system and powerful communication media and information technologies. The west makes space of development by identifying, defining certain problem and prescribes remedy for the “Third World’ countries. Through the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and these institutions’ legal authority, the West along with its most advanced technologies and professional and institutional knowledge controls all major political and economic affairs of the globe. The paper argues this issue from postmodern perspective, especially from Michael Foucault’s power/knowledge and the regime of ‘truth’ conceptions. In fact, those who advocate globalization today inherit from Enlightenment orientation. The Enlightenment offered a universal application of reason to human affairs and it embedded in a philosophy of history with a meta-narrative concerning the continued onward march of society due to the results of science and technology. And in this connection, globalization resurrects an imagined totality of human culture. Postmodernism, on the other hand, rejects any such overarching “meta narrative” and scheme of totalitarian human society that would pretend to erase the irreducible differences of human experiences. Keywords: Globalization, Hegemony, Global Culture, Capitalistic Economy, Western Domination, Communication Media, Information Technologies, Transnational, IMF, World Bank, Consumer Culture, Modernization, Postmodernism, Power/Knowledge Resume: ‘Globalisation’-un terme qui est entre dans le discourse populaire a la fin des annees 1980s, est certainement devenu un des plus grands mots a la mode dans ce nouveau millenaire. La nature et les impacts de la globalisation ont ete fait l’objet des debats approfondis concernant le domaine economique, politique, recherche culturelle et cercles academiques depuis les mi-1990s. Pourtant, le courant dominant de la pensee economique promet que la globalisation rendront les pauvre plus pauvres, dissoudre la dictature, proteger l’ environnement, integrer des cultures, et reverser le fosse accru entre les pays riches et pauvres dans le monde. Mais en realite, la globalisation a apporte une destruction desastre des traditions, la subordination continue des nations and regions pauvres par des pays riches occidentaux, la degradation environnementale et a pose une menace grave aux cultures et economies indigenes et non-occidentales. La globalisation a resulte de la penetration et l’expansion de la nourriture occidentale, des films, des habits, de la musique, des sports, des medias, des technologies et d’autres formes de cultures populaires dans tous les coins de la planete.Pouratnt, ce document fait des arguments qu’a travers le processus de globalisation, comme la colonisation, la modernisation, l’occident est exploite et il exerce une dominance sur l’economie, les cultures, la modalite traditionnelle de vie des autres pays avec le systeme economique capitaliste et la puissance de la communication par media ainsi que les technologies d’information. L’occident explore l’espace de developpement en identifiant, definissant certains problemes et remedes prescrits pour les pays du “Tiers monde’. Par l’ONU, l’ IMF, la banque mondiale et l’ autorite des institutions legales, l’occident avec ses technologies les plus avancee et professionnelles ainsi que ses savoir-faires institutionels controle toutes les affaires majeurs de la politique et de l’economie du monde. Ce document presente cette issue de la perspective postmoderns, surtout de la puissance/ connaissance de Michael Foucault et le regime des conceptions de la ‘verite’. En fait, ceux qui sont pour la globalisation aujourd’hui herite de l’orientation du Siecle des lumieres. Le Siecle des lumieres donne une application universelle de raisons pour les affaires humaines et il enfonce dans une philosophie d’histoire avec une meta-narrative concernant l’avancement continu de la societe du aux resultats de science et de technologie. Et sur ce point, la globalisation fait la renaissance d’une totalite imaginee de culture humaine. Le postmodernisme, d’autre part, rejette toutes les“meta-narrative” et des intrigues de la societe totalitaire humaine qui pretend d’un effacement de differences irreductibles des experiences humaines. Mots-cles: Globalisation, Hegemonie, Culture Globale, Economie Capitaliste, Domination occidentale, Communication par Media, Technologies d’Information, Transnational, IMF, banque mondiale, Consommation Culturelle, Modernisation, Postmodernisme, Puissance/connaissance

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.050

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.067
Scholarly communication0.0130.013
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.295 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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