SOCIOL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 51: Cultural Globalization
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Cultural interactions more generally, for instance through. Why would globalization lead to conflict? migration. With globalization, the world gets smaller, and thus interactions among cultures increase and intensify. Globalization processes, especially economic, create winners and losers and thus potential for competition and conflict. As a result, some people argue, cultural conflict ensues! Idea of cultural conflict is very common in media and politics and popular discourse. Many commentators framed the war on terror as a cultural clash between. More recently: politicians framing immigration as a cultural issue arguing that immigrants" culture clashes with national values. Sociologists tend to be very critical of arguments about cultural conflict as inevitable. Culture is usually not the underlying cause of conflict. Cultural divisions are often the consequence rather than the cause of conflict. Differences between cultures are smaller than claimed and should not be seen as fixed. Evidence indicates that cultural interaction doesn"t necessarily lead to conflict.
