Globalization as a Generator of Cultural and Economic Hegemony: A Postmodern Perspective/GLOBALISATION COMME UN GÉNÉRATEUR DE L'HÉGÉMONIE CULTURELLE ET ECONOMIQUE: UNE PERSPECTIVE POSTMODERNE
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: '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 I' 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. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".