Culture of development and the variables of globalization

Abstract

The research attempts to discuss the role of culture in the development industry, by asking a major question: To what extent do cultural factors shape the progress of development? If culture dominates this formulation, then what are the cultural elements that support development and how can the cultural elements that impede development be removed or changed? To answer this question, it was necessary for us to present and discuss a number of intellectual and theoretical views, and to try to explore the theoretical framework that links these views and explains them.
 The research also discusses the changes that occurred in the local and national cultures due to globalization. Globalization’s objective processes imposed forms of cultural meanings of a global nature. The research also taps into the questions “to what extent can we separate the local and global cultural values?” and “Does adopting universal values mean sacrificing social and cultural heritage and giving up civilizational specificity?” Or these changes resulted from globalization being imposing objective processes that created forms of cultural meanings of a global nature, and to what extent can we separate the local and global cultural values? Does adopting universal values mean sacrificing social and cultural heritage and giving up civilizational specificity? Or that the introduction of universal values means: adapting these values in a framework that serves the local and national levels and promotes society?