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cultural imperialism |
the influence of a particular culture on a wide range of other cultures. |
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globality |
primarily refers to a social condition, potentially the end-point of globalization, whereby individual and collective consciousness is focused increasingly at the global level and away from the national level. |
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vagabonds |
those that move throughout the globe because they find their environs (surroundings) unbearable, inhospitable for any number of reasons. |
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cultural convergence |
this paradigm is based on the idea of globalization leading to increasing sameness throughout the world. |
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irrationality of rationality |
the paradoxical reality that rationality seems often to lead to its exact opposite-irrationality. |
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cultural hybridization |
this paradigm emphasizes the mixing of cultures as a result of globalization & the production, out of the integration of the global & the local, of new & unique hybrid cultures that are not reducible to either the local or the global culture. |
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hybridization |
a perspective on globalization that emphasizes the increasing diversity associated with globalization. |
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globalization |
the interpenetration of the global & the local resulting in unique outcomes in different geographic areas. |
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imperialism |
the control & exploitation, especially economically, of a number of areas throughout the world by a nation(s) at the center. |
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tourists |
those on the move throughout the globe because they want to be. |
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McDonaldization |
the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more & more sectors of American society, as well as the rest of the world; in the latter sense, a form of cultural imperialism. |
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calculability |
an emphasis on quantity, often to the detriment of quality; a dimension of McDonaldization. |
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control |
domination of technologies over employees & customers; a dimension of McDonaldization. |
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efficiency |
the effort to discover the best possible means to whatever end is desired; a dimension of McDonaldization. |
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predictability |
things (products, settings, employee, customer behavior, etc.) are pretty much the same from one geographic setting to another & from one time to another; a dimension of McDonaldization. |
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neo-liberalism |
a theory that combines the political commitment to individual liberty with neoclassical economics devoted to the free market & opposed to state intervention in that market. |
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transnational capitalist class & 4 fractions |
not made up of capitalists in the traditional Marxian sense of the term; its members do not necessarily own the means of production. Includes four "fractions" |
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4 fractions of transnational capitalist class |
corporate - made up of executives of transnational corporations & their local affiliates.
state - composed of globalizing state & interstate bureaucrats & politicians. technical - made up of globalizing professionals. consumerist - encompassing merchants & media executives. |
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empire |
a decentered, postmodern Marxian perspective on globalization & the exertion of power around the world based based on new juridicial power such as the constitution of order, norms, ethical truths, & a common notion of what is right. it can, in the name of what is "right", intervene anywhere in the world in order to deal with what it considers humanitarian problems, to guarantee accords, & to impose peace on those who may not want it or even see it as peace. |
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multitude |
a collection of people throughout the world that sustains empire in carious ways, including, but not restricted to, its labor (it is the real productive force in empire), but it also has the power, at least potentially, to overthrow empire. |