Many Globalizations Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World

by Berger, Peter L.; Huntington, Samuel P.

• ISBN13: 9780195168822
• ISBN10: 0195168828
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty. Here Berger and Huntington bring together an array of experts who paint a subtle and richly shaded portrait, showing both thepower and the unexpected consequences of this great force. The stereotypes of globalization--characterized as American imperialism on the one hand, and as an economic panacea on the other--fall apart under close scrutiny. Surveying globalization from individual countries of the five major continents, Many Globalizations shows that an emerging globalculture does indeed exist. While globalization is American in origin and content, the authors point out that it is far from a centrally directed force like classic imperialism. They examine the currents that carry this culture, from a worldwide class of young professionals to non-governmentalorganizations, and define globalization's many variations as well as sub-globalizations that bind regions together. Analytical, incisive and stimulating, Many Globalizations offers rare insight into perhaps the central issue of modern times, one that is changing the West as much as the developing world. "Provocative.... Taken together, the trenchant, well-written essays included in this collection provide indisputable evidence that an identifiable global culture is indeed emerging."--World Policy Journal "Analytical and penetrating, belongs...on the desks of anyone with an abiding interest in the forces shaping the world."--Publishers Weekly

Author Biography

Peter L. Berger is University Professor of Sociology and Theology at Boston University, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture. Samuel P. Huntington is Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University and Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is the author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Making of World Order and co-editor of Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
THE CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION
Peter L. Berger
Part One Globalization and Alternative Modernities	17	(100)
1 Managed Globalization	19	(29)
STATE POWER AND CULTURAL TRANSITION IN CHINA
Yunxiang Yan
2 Coexistence and Synthesis	48	(20)
CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION IN CONTEMPORARY TAIWAN
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
3 Aspects of Globalization in Contemporary Japan	68	(21)
Tamotsu Aoki
4 "A Tryst with Destiny"	89	(28)
THE INDIAN CASE OF CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION
Tulasi Srinivas
Part Two Globalization and Regional Subglobalization	117	(66)
5 Cultural Globalization in Germany	119	(27)
Hansfried Kellner and Hans-Georg Soeffeer
6 Rival Temptations and Passive Resistance	146	(37)
CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION IN HUNGARY
János Mátyás Kovács
Part Three Globalization on the Periphery	183	(138)
7 Globalization, Culture, and Development	185	(65)
CAN SOUTH AFRICA BE MORE THAN AN OFFSHOOT OF THE WEST?
Ann Bernstein
8 Trends toward Globalization in Chile	250	(46)
Arturo Fontaine Talavera
9 Cultural Globalization in Turkey	296	(25)
ACTORS, DISCOURSES, STRATEGIES
Ergun Özbudun and E. Fuat Keyman
Part Four The American Vortex	321	(38)
10 In the Vanguard of Globalization	323	(36)
THE WORLD OF AMERICAN GLOBALIZERS
James Davison Hunter and Joshua Yates
Index	359