Cultural Theories Of Globalization

Cultural Globalization: Theories and Methods

The idea of experience regarding globalization is important, according to various scholars, as globalization only truly matters if people can feel that it has something to do with their lives. People have to sense that they are actually experiencing globalization in order to care about it and find it important enough – which is why I would like to argue that certain of the pieces in the "experiencing globalization" section of the course literature represent the most fundamental and significant ideas in terms of understanding globalization processes. I will first address Lechner’s ‘waves of globalization’ and Levitt’s idea of ‘transnational villagers,’ and afterwards I shall discuss Appadurai’s ‘experience

However, globalization is real to almost everyone, as it transforms the sense of time and space – which is now globally standardized, - envelops people in new situations, poses challenges and raises identity problems for both societies and individuals. In order to demonstrate why I believe that experiencing globalization is the most important aspect to understanding globalization and to explain my argument, I shall start by addressing Lechner’s concept of ‘waves of globalization.’ First of all, the Dutch-American sociologist states that during the first wave in Worthy Park, Central Jamaica, the British were eventually forced to borrow necessary capital from back home due to some difficulties. The labour shortage was solved by bringing slaves into the country, with some 600,000 entering Jamaica altogether in the 1700s – allowing sugar production to be shifted into high gear and resulting in Worthy Park becoming part of the transatlantic

The billboards advertising airlines are highly relevant to nearly two-thirds of the families living in the neighbourhood as they have relatives in the greater Boston area. The people who have migrated to the United States still maintain strong and frequent contacts with those that stayed in Miraflores, which makes it seem like that their village life takes place in two settings. For example, food, fashion, home decorating styles, forms of speech and appliances attest to these strong connections – brought to those living in Miraflores by those that have moved to Boston, letting them experience globalization to a greater extent while they stayed in the Dominican Republic. At the same time, the Mirafloreños that have moved to the US have sort of re-created their premigration lives to the extent their new physical and cultural environment allows – which also shows how transnational communities can affect both the material and behavioural lives of people in multiple