Culture and Globalization
Culture
Culture and Society
Frederick F. Wherry,
Frederick F. Wherry
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Frederick F. Wherry
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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How should we define culture and globalization? How does each affect the other? And what are our shortcomings in understanding the heterogeneous outcomes for cultural production and expression in a globalizing world? This essay begins with foundational understandings among sociologists, political economists, and anthropologists regarding the facets of globalization and the way that it is shaped by and in turn shapes local cultures. The essay turns to the widely varied, disjointed attempts to explain the phenomenon and then offers suggestions for advancing studies of culture in the context of globalization.
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