Era Of Cultural Globalization Research Articles

The Resilient Tradition: Exploring the Cultural Significance of Javanese Wayang Kulit in Heritage Preservation

This research delves into the profound significance of Javanese Wayang Kulit, or Wayang Kulit, in preserving and promoting Javanese cultural heritage. Wayang Kulit is not merely a traditional art form; it is a dynamic and resilient force that continues to breathe life into Javanese culture. This study explores the multifaceted dimensions through which Wayang Kulit contributes to the maintenance of Javanese cultural heritage. The research underscores the profound cultural importance of Wayang Kulit, serving as a living archive of Javanese traditions, myths, and history. It acts as a vehicle for the transmission of cultural values and ethical lessons, serving as a moral compass for the Javanese community. A significant result of this research is the adaptability and resilience of Wayang Kulit. It harmoniously coexists with contemporary themes, innovative storytelling, and cross-cultural collaborations while remaining rooted in its cultural essence. The economic significance of Wayang Kulit is undeniable, as it supports a network of local artisans, Wayang makers, musicians, and businesses, benefiting local economies and sustaining livelihoods. Additionally, it attracts cultural tourists, providing a boon to local industries. Wayang Kulit fosters community cohesion, intergenerational bonds, and a profound sense of cultural identity among the Javanese people. It is a unifying force that strengthens familial ties and brings communities together. In an era of cultural globalization, Wayang Kulit emerges as a model for cultural resilience. Its adaptability, endurance, and relevance serve as a beacon to the world, reaffirming the timeless value of cultural traditions in a changing global landscape. The research highlights the global implications of the findings, offering insights into how traditional cultural expressions can thrive in the modern world while preserving their cultural essence. Wayang Kulit is more than an art form; it is a guardian of cultural heritage, an educator, and an economic force. Its resilience and adaptability serve as a model for the world, reaffirming the timeless value of cultural traditions in an ever-changing global landscape

Parallels of cultural renaissance and dynamics of ethnic cultures of Russia in the era of cultural globalization

The objective of paper is to assess the time-compressed dynamics of the culture of the ethno-national region of Russia, to identify its regularities and to draw parallels with the stages of European and Russian cultural processes. The article identifies the quality and modernization potential of the current state of ethnic culture, which is under the pressure of assimilation of cultural globalism. The methodology is revealed by the definition of the Renaissance culture as the ability to operate with symbolic forms and the consistent transfer of the well-known properties of the European and Russian Renaissance to the modern ethnic culture of the Russian region as isomorphic processes. The paper identifies the state of regional culture as result of a double reflection of the cultural renaissance, called as the "Yakut Silver Age". The criteria for that is the presence of a creative paradigm of ethnomodernism, manifested in the field of art.

Martial Arts Tourism: Meta-Analysis of Publications from 2005–2020

A feature of modern society in the era of cultural globalization is its mobility. One of the manifestations of this social mobility is people spending free time on tourist trips. Tourism, as understood as a sociocultural phenomenon, is a special manifestation of location. In addition to the motives for undertaking trips in martial arts tourism, individual destinations, specific tourism potential and the typology of participants in tourist meetings were analyzed, and individual cases were examined. The research materials were 44 articles published in scientific journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, and EBSCOHost databases. Publications, which appeared in the sources discussed between 2005 and mid-2020s were considered. Some periodicals were present in all three of the quoted databases, therefore specific articles were taken into account only once. This study will cover a meta-analysis of martial arts tourism in journals indexed in several major scientific databases. It is related to the phenomenon of tourism of this type, which is discussed from various scientific perspectives. As a research tool, the Atlas.ti program was used (mainly in the qualitative research or analysis of qualitative data), by means of which correlations and dominant items were sought. A comparison with other publications suggests that no similar meta-analysis has so far been performed in relation to the literature devoted to the subject of “martial arts tourism”. Particularly interesting conclusions were identified: (1) there are thematic relations between the destination country, the main destination, and the destination country; (2) martial arts are treated by researchers as both primary, and secondary threads, (3) the difference between travel destinations and types events attended by people interested in martial arts, (4) the variety of event formats plays a role in popularizing the subject of these forms of physical activity, and (5) the number of publications describing specific destinations is not particularly related to specific countries as destinations.

Cultural Globalization and Disciplinary Development of Intercultural Communication in China: Challenges and Opportunities

In the era of cultural globalization, the discipline of intercultural communication in China has obtained a great opportunity of development. This paper expounds the development of Chinese intercultural communication studies from three perspectives. Firstly, the discipline of intercultural communication has enhanced the emergence and development of many other intercultural studies in a much broader scope. Secondly, intercultural communication studies in China is promoting and also developing through increased international collaboration. Lastly, cultural globalization has brought about new topics for intercultural communication studies in China.

The Unified World Order

In pursuit of a capitalist world configuration, the causal phenomenon of globalization spread its cultural values in the built international system, as evidenced by the dichotomy between the rich North and the poor South. This era of cultural globalization is predominantly characterized by social inequality, economic inequality and instability, political instability, social injustice, and environmental change. Consequently, the world is empirically infected by divergent global inequalities among nations and people, as evidenced by the numerous problems plaguing humanity. This article seeks to understand Islam from the viewpoint of technological determinism in attempt to offset these diverging global inequalities for its “sociopolitical economy”1existence, as well as the stabilization of the interconnected world. Based upon the unifying view of microIslamics, the meaning of Islam and its globalizing perspectives are deciphered on a built micro-religious platform. Finally, the world is rebuilt via the Open World Peace (OWP) paradigm, from which the fluidity of open globalization is derived as a future causal phenomenon for seamlessly bridging (or contracting) the gaps between the rich-rich, rich-poor, poor-rich and poor-poor nations and people based on common civilization fronts.

The Unified World Order

In pursuit of a capitalist world configuration, the causal phenomenon of globalization spread its cultural values in the built international system, as evidenced by the dichotomy between the rich North and the poor South. This era of cultural globalization is predominantly characterized by social inequality, economic inequality and instability, political instability, social injustice, and environmental change. Consequently, the world is empirically infected by divergent global inequalities among nations and people, as evidenced by the numerous problems plaguing humanity. This article seeks to understand Islam from the viewpoint of technological determinism in attempt to offset these diverging global inequalities for its “sociopolitical economy”1existence, as well as the stabilization of the interconnected world. Based upon the unifying view of microIslamics, the meaning of Islam and its globalizing perspectives are deciphered on a built micro-religious platform. Finally, the world is rebuilt via the Open World Peace (OWP) paradigm, from which the fluidity of open globalization is derived as a future causal phenomenon for seamlessly bridging (or contracting) the gaps between the rich-rich, rich-poor, poor-rich and poor-poor nations and people based on common civilization fronts.

Rap as a roadway: creating creolized forms of science in an era of cultural globalization

Even during an era of cultural globalization where diversity, hybridity, and heterogeneity prevail, educational institutions remain unchanged and economically and racially marginalized students continue to experience a sense of exclusion in school. Whereas the science education community often addresses such exclusion in terms of the achievement gap or the lack of materials and qualified teachers in urban schools, there are also more subtle ways in which these students remain as outsiders to the culture of science. The study highlights how the acceptance and affordance of students' cultural capital can encourage a sense of belonging with school science. Specifically, this paper contributes to the literature by sharing longitudinal findings that reveal students' skills of orality, in the form of rap practices, can be rich resources for developing creolized forms of school science, and how rap creates entryways for students to form and reform hybridized identities in which canonical science discourse and lyrics about non-science subjects can begin to emerge in integrated, fluid and seamless manners.

Collective Belonging and Mass Media Consumption: Unraveling how Technological Medium and Cultural Genre Shape the National Imaginings of Australians

Sociological literature lacks a firm evidentiary base with respect to how mass media usage works to forge patterns of collective attachment among socially diverse individuals within contemporary societies. This paper seeks to engage with this absence by examining the detailed ways in which complexities of media consumptions are linked with divergent popular visions of national belongingness and identity. Focusing in particular on variations in cultural genre and delivery technology, the study aims to help clarify extant disciplinary discussions about if and how media consumption interconnects with the substance of individual national imaginings in an era of cultural globalization. Using data from a large social survey of changing visions of national identity among contemporary Australians, the study shows that established media technologies and the consumption of lowbrow genres harden individual attachment to a traditional imagining of the nation. By contrast use of the Internet and highbrow genres foster a more inclusive vision of nation identity. In terms of sustaining these different national identity configurations, cultural genre is revealed to be of greater consequence than technological medium. Furthermore, and in a more general way, the findings suggest that notwithstanding the complexity of effects, mass media usage stands up alongside a more established concern with individual social structural background as a highly salient factor in shaping contemporary formations of national attachment.