The sociological analysis of globalization - Курсовая работа

Technical University of Dortmund Faculty of economics and sociology Economical and industrial sociology Seminary assignment What is Globalization Seminar «The sociological analysis of globalization» SS2011 Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen Ekaterina Ershova, 146239 Dortmund, 31.12.2011 I Abbreviations e.g.- exempli gratia (for example) etc- et cetera (and so on) i.e.-. (Beck. 2007. P.28) Although the word “globalization” is a relatively new notion, the processes it describes are very old. It might be argued that during all its historical development humanity always strives for globalization. To feel, understand and perceive the world, not mentioning Universe as a whole, is innate, natural aspiration of a human being. However, what a person previously called disposition or world outlook could not be real until the new technology emerged and enabled one to perceive the world widely. A person has to be given access to information about everything in the world in order to be able to form his own world outlook.. Globalization, by definition, is international and not cosmopolitan. However, in reality, globalization is not serving internationalism but cosmopolitanism. Ideally, globalization should be a logical, natural and positive result of the development of humanity. Unfortunately, it became a tool of diffusion and infliction of postulates of certain ideology. The term globalization became almost a synonym of Americanization. As a result, globalization as a product of technological revolution became not a condition for formation of natural and true world outlook, but a condition for assertion of desired by someone ideology. What we have now is not objective reality but subjective world’s view. The reason for such outcome might be the fact that the achievements of technical science are controlled by those few who have money and power. Hence, on one side, there is a natural globalization that emerged as a logical product of development of humanity. It established as a foundation for countries to come out from isolation and form mutual understanding, influence and enrichment. The process of globalization created a world that is no longer separated by boarders and ocean. It enabled people from different corners of the Planet learn about traditions, lifestyles and events of other cultures. As a result, government can find it extremely difficult to contain flow of information within the boarders and influence events. On the other side, there is an artificial globalization, or Americanization, that aims at devastation of individual cultures, its demoralization, and infliction on its place a “psuedoculture”, which is the ideological base for American idea of uni-polarization of the world. One may wonder how the Unites States manages to have such an influential role. A strong business environment with the big market and use of English language make it easier for American conglomerates grow and sustain power. American production companies realize that people want to watch programms in their own language, therefore the cheap way to dub a movie into Hindu, for example, is adopted instead of producing a country-specific television. It is even easier to diffuse the program in those countries where English is widely used, such as Scandinavian territories. Many scientists and theorists believe that there are countries that can be considered as a moving force, or stimulus, of globalization and other countries that hold an opposite view and try to prevent globalization. However, cultural imperialists claim that it is not a very accurate classification. It will be more correct to say that there is A country (United States of America) that tries - by hiding behind the fame of globalization- to impose its ideology on the whole world.