Midterm

• Hegemonic Internationalism


  • One nation dominates and leads the international system
• Revolutionary Internationalism


  • Promoting global revolution to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism
• Socialist Internationalism


  • Marx's view of the world divided into classes, not nations, with the working class uniting globally
• Economic Globalism


  • Increased global trade, investment, and economic integration
• Military Globalism


  • Increased global military cooperation and integration
• Social or Cultural Globalism


  • Increased global cultural exchange and integration
• Media


  Refers to the communication channels through which we disseminate news, music, movies, education, promotional messages and other data
• Culture


  Can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation
• Globalization


  1. Entails the spread of various cultures

  2. Involves the spread of ideas

  3. Relies on media as its main conduit for the spread of global culture and ideas
• Types of media


  • Print media
  • Broadcast media
  • Digital media
• Media


  Means of conveying something, such as channel of communication
• Media


  • What media do and how they affect societies
• Marshall McLuhan: '"the medium is the message"'
• Television


  Is not a simple bearer of messages; it also shapes the social behaviour of users and reorient family behavior
• Smartphone


  Allows users to keep in touch instantly with multiple people at the same time
• New media


  May expand the reach of communication, but they also dull the user's communicative capacities
• Global media


  Promotes a restructuring of cultural and social communities
• Global media constitutes a global cultural supply in itself and serves as an independent agency for cultural and social globalization in which, cultural communities are continuously restructured and redefined
• Global media supports the creation of new communities
• Religion has the most difficult relationship with globalism
• Globalization


  Flattens out cultural differences, erodes local customs and beliefs, and spreads a secular, capitalist way of life that is at odds with religions of all sorts
• Religion


  Serves as the source of globalization's greatest resistance and as a haven for those standing in opposition to its ubiquitous yet often subtle power
• The relationship between religion and globalization is antagonistic – one of struggle and conflict
• Religion nowadays


  • It's no longer a set of beliefs that people arrive by reflection
  • Marks crucial moments
  • Provides powerful mechanisms for psychological and social tension
  • It's a symbolic system which carries our identity
• Role of Religion in Promoting World Peace