The Youth and the Culture of Globalization
The Youth and the Culture of Globalization
Prof. Adib Akeil Faculty of Letters-Department of Sociology
A-The Methodology of the Study : 1-The Problem of the Study : The word "Globalization" has been widely used in the last ten years of the last century especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union .Globalization as a phenomena, however, is not new for it dates back to five centuries ago .Globalization appeared clearly in a period a little more than ten years and was based in the USA after the collapse of the socialist bloc .It was the globalization of Post-Modernism NeoLiberalism and the emergence of the industrial society .Thus globalization moved in rapid leaps skipping time phases especially after the Information and communication revolution, the arm race, the unipolar hegemony over third-world countries and countries of the previous socialist bloc . Globalization was introduced at the beginning as a modernizing aspect that brings about changes in the scientific, cultural and political fields that aims at linking economic and technological advancement and associating things to to establish a new global civilization that is in the interests of the global centre that produces technology and leads the phenomena of the flow of commodities, services, construction and other things prevailing in western countries, especially America , to other countries and third world countries in particular. And we believe that globalization especially cultural globalization has different impacts .Because at first glance, the concept of globalization calls for the unification of ideas, values and ways of thinking among different peoples of the world as a means providing a broad area of mutual understanding and bringing people closer and securing world peace and these are all goals worth respect and appreciation .This triggered more inquiries about globalization; its nature, facts, illusions, advantages, disadvantages and how to deal with it. Thus, we see that globalization,
Prof. Adib Akeil Faculty of Letters-Department of Sociology
A-The Methodology of the Study : 1-The Problem of the Study : The word "Globalization" has been widely used in the last ten years of the last century especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union .Globalization as a phenomena, however, is not new for it dates back to five centuries ago .Globalization appeared clearly in a period a little more than ten years and was based in the USA after the collapse of the socialist bloc .It was the globalization of Post-Modernism NeoLiberalism and the emergence of the industrial society .Thus globalization moved in rapid leaps skipping time phases especially after the Information and communication revolution, the arm race, the unipolar hegemony over third-world countries and countries of the previous socialist bloc . Globalization was introduced at the beginning as a modernizing aspect that brings about changes in the scientific, cultural and political fields that aims at linking economic and technological advancement and associating things to to establish a new global civilization that is in the interests of the global centre that produces technology and leads the phenomena of the flow of commodities, services, construction and other things prevailing in western countries, especially America , to other countries and third world countries in particular. And we believe that globalization especially cultural globalization has different impacts .Because at first glance, the concept of globalization calls for the unification of ideas, values and ways of thinking among different peoples of the world as a means providing a broad area of mutual understanding and bringing people closer and securing world peace and these are all goals worth respect and appreciation .This triggered more inquiries about globalization; its nature, facts, illusions, advantages, disadvantages and how to deal with it. Thus, we see that globalization,
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