Culture in the context of Globalization: a sociological interpretation

Autores

  • Xia Guang School of Business of the Macao Polytechnic Institute

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1808-0820.cali.2007.65465

Resumo

The world today is said to be a “global village”. However, this village is, rather than a culturally homogeneous community, a world of diverse cultures. In this globalized world, how different cultures interact with each other and with globalizing forces in general is crucial to their survival and to their reinvention. This essay is intended to provide a critical examination of various existing cultural phenomena, such as ethnocentrism (in forms of religious fundamentalism and cultural imperialism) and cultural relativism (multiculturalism, post-colonialism), from a sociological perspective. It will further attempt to theorize a possible mechanism of coexistence and
symbiosis of different cultures in the context of globalization by relating the local to the global, the traditional to the posttraditional, the particular to the universal, and the cultural sphere to the social world.

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Biografia do Autor

  • Xia Guang, School of Business of the Macao Polytechnic Institute
    Associate professor in the School of Business of the
    Macao Polytechnic Institute. After graduating with a PhD from the University of Toronto (1997), Dr. Xia has worked for Concordia University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and, since 2003, the Macao Polytechnic Institute. In addition to numerous articles in both Chinese and English, he has published two books and coauthored another one. His main areas of interests include modern social theory, traditional
    Chinese culture, and psychoanalysis.

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Publicado

2007-08-27

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Culture in the context of Globalization: a sociological interpretation. (2007). Caligrama (São Paulo. Online), 3(2). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1808-0820.cali.2007.65465