The document discusses ideas, culture, media, and religion in the context of globalization. It defines ideas and analyzes their global flow through patent statistics. It examines culture and how media has evolved through oral, written, print, electronic, and digital forms. The document also explores the outcomes of globalization on culture and the globalization of religion.
The document discusses ideas, culture, media, and religion in the context of globalization. It defines ideas and analyzes their global flow through patent statistics. It examines culture and how media has evolved through oral, written, print, electronic, and digital forms. The document also explores the outcomes of globalization on culture and the globalization of religion.
The document discusses ideas, culture, media, and religion in the context of globalization. It defines ideas and analyzes their global flow through patent statistics. It examines culture and how media has evolved through oral, written, print, electronic, and digital forms. The document also explores the outcomes of globalization on culture and the globalization of religion.
The document discusses ideas, culture, media, and religion in the context of globalization. It defines ideas and analyzes their global flow through patent statistics. It examines culture and how media has evolved through oral, written, print, electronic, and digital forms. The document also explores the outcomes of globalization on culture and the globalization of religion.
MODULE 6 A WORLD OF IDEAS Learning Outcomes: By the end of the module, you should be able to:
1. Analyze how various media drive various forms of global integration
2. Explain the dynamic between local and global cultural production 3. Explain how globalization affects religious practices and beliefs 4. Analyze the relationship between religion and global conflict and, conversely, global peace
LESSON 7 What is an Idea? An idea is a set of instruction to produce a new good, to increase quality or to reduce costs. An idea is different from a good or a service because it is nonrival. It can be used by different producers simultaneously. Therefore, an idea is not scarce in the same way that a good or service is scarce.
THE GLOBAL FLOWS OF IDEAS
• Measuring the production of ideas and their flow is not easy. Ideas are intangible. • However, use the number of patent filings as indirect evidence of new ideas. The global flow of ideas is measured by cross-country patent statistics. • A single patent does not protect an idea worldwide, a single idea can be patented in a number of countries. • Typically, patents are sought wherever inventors expect their ideas— designs for new products or production processes—to be made, used or sold. • Therefore, we can use the distribution of patent applications as a proxy for the global flow of ideas.
GLOBAL CULTURE AND MEDIA
WHAT IS CULTURE? • Culture refers to the unified style of human knowledge, beliefs, and behavior from which people learn, and the ability to communicate knowledge to the next generations. • Its development has been mainly influenced by media.
MEDIA’S FIVE STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
ORAL COMMUNICATION • Language became the most important tool for exploring the world and the different cultures. • Oral communication led to markets, trade, and cross-continental trade routes.
SCRIPT • Script allowed humans to communicate over a larger space and for a much longer duration. It allowed the permanent codification of economic, cultural, religious, and political practice.
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PRINTING PRESS • Printing Press allowed the continuous production, reproduction, and circulation of print materials.
ELECTRONIC MEDIA • Electronic media includes the telegraph, telephone, radio, film, and television. • The wide reach of these media continues to open up new perspectives in the economic, political, and cultural processes of globalization.
DIGITAL MEDIA • Digital media relies on digital codes. It can be created, modified, and stored in any digital electronic device. • Digitalized content is transmitted over the internet and computer networks.
WHAT IS MEDIA? • Media is a carrier of culture. It is a tool for the interaction of people with different cultures. • The real media is the people. • Pieterse (2004) asserts that the only outcomes of the influence of globalization on culture are cultural differentialism, cultural convergence, and cultural hybridity.
OUTCOMES OF THE INFLUENCE OF GLOBALIZATION ON CULTURE
Cultural Differentialism • Cultural differentialism views cultural difference as immutable. • As the West and non-Western civilizations interact or are brought in contact through globalization, clash of civilizations such as that of the West and Islam logically follows.
Cultural Convergence • Cultural convergence suggests that globalization engenders a growing sameness of cultures. However, the culture of powerful and progressive countries becomes culture. • Example, the K-pop culture.
Cultural Hybridity • It is the mixing and merging of cultures resulting in the creation of new cultural forms in language, food, fashion, arts, music, among others.
GLOCALIZATION The continuous accommodation and assimilation by local cultures of the cultures of the world due to globalization.
THE GLOBALIZATION OF RELIGION
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, beliefs systems, and world views that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and to moral values.
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TOOLS OF UNITING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ON RELIGIOUS BASIS
1. Books 2. Movies 3. Cell phone apps 4. Social networks 5. Charity funds 6. Special internet sites 7. Religious schools
Types of Religious Organizations
1. Cults – this term is sometimes used interchangeably with the term new religious movement (NRM). These groups are often disparaged as being secretive, highly controlling of members’ lives, and dominated by a single, charismatic leader. 2. Sects – it is a breakaway group that may be in tension with larger society. They sometimes claim to be returning to “the fundamentals” or the contest the veracity of a particular doctrine. When membership in a sect increases over time, it may grow into a denomination. 3. Denomination – is a large mainstream religious organization, but it does not claim to be official or state sponsored. 4. Ecclesia – originally referring to a political assembly of citizens in ancient Athens, Greece, now refers to a congestion. In sociology, the term is used to refer to a religious group that most all members of a society belong to.
Reflect on the learning that you gained from this lesson by completing the given chart.
What were your misconceptions about the topic What new or additional learning have you gained prior to taking up this lesson? from this lesson in terms of skills, content, and attitude? I thought… I learned that…
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REFERENCES:
BOOKS:
Aldama, P. K. (2018). The Contemporary World. First Edition, Quezon City: C & E Publishing, Inc.
Brazalote, T.C., and Leonardo, R.M. (2019). The Contemporary World. “Outcome-Based Module”, Quezon City: C & E Publishing, Inc.
Claudio, L.E., and Abinales, P. N. (2018) The Contemporary World, Quezon City: C & E Publishing, Inc.
San Juan, D.M. (2018) Journeys Through Our Contemporary World, Quezon City: Vibal Group, Inc.San Juan, D.M. (2018) Journeys Through Our Contemporary World, Quezon City: Vibal Group, Inc.
(Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture) Mark R. Mullins - Christianity Made in Japan - A Study of Indigenous Movements - University of Hawaii Press (1998) PDF
(Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture) Mark R. Mullins - Christianity Made in Japan - A Study of Indigenous Movements - University of Hawaii Press (1998) PDF
