Universal Civilization
The terms of civilization universal civilization and world are linked to perceptions of the effects of globalization. They mean the sharing across global manners, values , practices, beliefs , and even guidance.
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Description: The diverse content of the concept of universal civilization
Civilization considered as a universal feature of the modern world
Some believe that globalization makes us see the emergence of what Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul has called a "universal civilization." Vaclav Havel wrote, "we now live in a single global civilization."
According to the holders of this view, mutations that globalization leads us to think differently about issues of culture or civilization. They advance the idea that the development of information technologies and knowledge and technology in general, trade development, migration and tourism, are the foundation of the world civilization.
S. This idea Naipaul and Fouad Ajami as his most ardent supporters.
Impact, shapes and characteristics
Cultural aspects
The extension of communications, and parallel market economy, the world is accompanied by a diffusion of norms , practices, social and values. Change cultural causes of the phenomena of acculturation or hybridization cultural suggest a trend towards unification cultural or civilizational emerges.
Forms
According to the approaches, the universal civilization is considered:
in content:
- or homogenizing,
- instead be an opening on the diversity of cultures allowing everyone to no longer be confined to its own community identity.
in their ranking
- is putting on an equal footing most civilizations by opening the choices and allowing complementarities,
- is ensuring the domination of one over most others. Some argue that the concept is essentially in its current phase, domination culture of civilization west. It is currently a fruit of Westernization as globalization more generally.
Symbols
The pizza , which has become a staple around the world (well before the famous hamburger) may appear as the most typical symbol of universal civilization.
Characteristic of universal civilization considered as a simple objective
Universal civilization could result in a particular institutional globalization
Controversy about the reality and / or feasibility
Expressions of universal civilization, or even global civilization, are subject to debate.
Controversies about the reality
The non-partisan or detractors of this concept see it as assumptions. To Samuel Phillips Huntington , the world is ever more multipolar and multicivilizational. It would be impossible to speak of an emerging global civilization
In the same vein, Paul Valadier writing about the appearance culture : "It is not clear that globalization means the leveling of culture Controversies about the feasibility
Critics go further, this time at the feasibility. By focusing on a strict definition of what a civilization they consider this vision as a kind of utopia. For them, talking world civilization would mean pray the same God (having the same religion ) and speak the same way (have the same language ). However, the current statistical data are far from supporting this probability.
It seems that this thesis makes a confusion between civilization and culture , by systematically rejecting the concept of multicultural civilization.
See also
Bibliography
- Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations, Paris, td. Odile Jacob, 1997, Paperback edition 2000.
- Claude Levi-Strauss , Race and History, Paris, Unesco, 1952
- Jacques Ellul , La Technique, or the challenge of the century Paris, Economica, 1990.
Internal Links
- Another approach, also subject to controversy: the clash of civilizations
- Culture
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