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e-Folklore in the Age of Globalization by Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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Globalization is a concept that has been described as "the process of increasing interconnectedness between societies such that events in one part of the world more and more have effects on peoples and societies far away" (Baylis/Smith 1997, 7). It is a concept in modern scholarship that evokes wide political and economic discussion and disagreement (e.g. Giddens 1999 versus Appadurai 1997). Whilst the triumphant advance of market relations is seen as inevitable (Gilpin 2001), much critique concentrates on the alleged cultural hegemony of the Western world (Huntington 1999). Generally, globalization may be perceived as a spread of Western liberal practice to the rest of the world, disregarding deep cultural differences between Western and non-Western societies. Since the 1970s globalization, in practice, includes the development of regional, transnational and transcontinental structures accompanied by the spread of liberal values, ways of life, technology and ideas (such as democracy, civil liberties and human rights), free market economy, consumerism, and global communication technology. Internet cafés and MacDonald's outlets in Jakarta, Warsaw and any other place of some importan
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- Author
- Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG; Walter de Gruyter GmbH (ISSN 1316-0464)
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)