Nov. 23, 2010 - Culture as Information: Can Information Cultures Be a Threat?

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Multiculturalism “Globalization of culture” = globalization of ideas? Is it a threat (if so, to what)? What is relationship of -ideas to individual identity -individual identity to social cohesion -social cohesion to social order -social order to governance system: has discrete output society: ? Fighting imperialism → celebrates group identity, oppresses individual identity Can we separate the political and economic “traditions” of “The West” -(which are roughly = to globalization of governance and markets) ...from the cultural inheritance of “The West”? Foundations: What is the “nation-state”? Critique: Puts identity over nationality -Bruckner's critique is liberal -Bruckner: culture causes individuals to be “imprisoned in an ethnic or racial definition...assigned, as in the colonial era, to living in their skin or beliefs” Per Wirten (Swedish philosopher): -”words and concepts are an iron cage” -”boundaries to our imaginations” Horace Kallen (American sociologist) -governance exists to protect individuals -standardization = anti-individual -critique of melting pot ideology in “Democracy Versus the Melting Pot” (The Nation) -reaction to work of Edward A. Ross (eugenics) on “assimilation” -Kallen: “assimilation” = standardization → anti-individual, anti-pluralist Kallen understood globalization of culture as an effect of global markets -need for cheap labor → -exposure to new cultures → -exposure to “foreign” ideas; -”Defenders of tradition” were Anglo-Saxon, Atlantic seaboard, merchant class Kallen coined “cultural pluralism” and “hyphenated Americans” “Americanization” [GS1: hybridization] -large concentration of Germans in Wisconsin → state govt starts to look like Germany's -German cultural traditions → governance → Wisconsin traditions Culture -artifacts (comic books) -ideas (women's rights) -ways of knowing (beliefs about who we are) Markets -commodities (movement of goods across system) -practices (different vs. homogenization) Governance -rules (formal and informal; social and political) -systems (US govt, each state govt) -hierarchies Explain globalization: -How changes in tech, business (II) -help spread new ideas (III) about people, markets, and states -over boarders and across boarders (I), and -how those new ideas (II) might change govts (I) and cultures (III) within those boarders