Research on writing has been classified according to its focus on four distinct yet interrelated aspects of writing: the written texts themselves, the form of written products, the composing process, and the method that people interact with their sociocultural contexts when writing (Cumming, 1998). The following are descriptions of these four research emphases. Focus on the written texts: One group of studies focuses on the texts that writers produce, for example, contrastive rhetorical analyses of how text
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study. In every community in the world, there exists a uniqueness that makes one part of the world different from the world. This can be seen in the way people live, there different landform and weather/climate differences but one key element that is common to every country is what we refer to as culture. Culture has been described by various anthropologists in different ways but with common elements that have peculiarity to every definition
There are various existing views that seek to explain the relationship between technology and cultural change within society. This essay will analyse one particular view, namely the technological determinist notion that cultural change in society is determined by technology. This essay will firstly analyse the concept of technological determinism in relation to Murphie and Potts’s discussion on culture and technology. The work of Marshall McLuhan, a technological determinist will also be looked at
industry? Was a huge improvement in the furniture industry with advancing technology. But is experiencing huge problems despite the development of the furniture industry. ‘’There is a serious problem in the industry organization, vigorously in this context it is apparent that the need for organization.’’(p:12) When dissolved in these problems will be no problem in the furniture industry. Furniture industry wide area. So that such problems are
Some analyst argues that lasting cultural rigidities will obstruct or perhaps even reverse the globalization process. Others counter that deep down everyone is truly economic man. Globalization especially in the context of “globalization of politics and world economy” has its different meanings, there’s a meaning given by Held and McGrew, a meaning given by scholars, and a meaning coming from ones interpretation, but for me globalization was and is the result of human decision which leads me to have
11. Globalization in Question? When speaking of globalization, one question that comes to mind would be if there is a possibility to reverse globalization, and if yes, how reversible is it. In this case, reversing does not refer to whether globalization can be altered to the extent of complete demobilization. Instead, it refers to whether globalization can be altered in such a way that all societies find it possible to make the best out of it, and not just a few countries. In order to analyze this
Culture is the primary asset and instrument used to set up and keep up ties of universal participation on the levels of the states and between nearby powers and non-legislative associations, between privately owned businesses and enterprises. Outside approach is based upon the nature of culture exchange, and culture has been assigned a noteworthy part in the advancement of the picture of state and society. Dynamic and expert culture attachés speak to their state abroad. The assets of the express
features that characterize a society or social group, then there must be a synthesis in the imperatives of interaction between culture and religion (Christianity) in the contemporary context in Nigeria. This paper explores the articulation of the position and functions of cultural custodian (traditional rulers) in the context of the principles and practice of religion, and culture in Nigeria. The mish-mash conflict between the demands of Christian morality and those of customary constitutes a daily problem
Society is an institution which consists of a group of people that live in the same social territory with the same dominant culture and political authority. Societies have an interaction and connection with each other over the trade, tourism, work and global issues. There are a number of society types which have different origin, culture, tradition, the way of life and history. Each society has own experience of life and the way of change and development in social and technological terms. Level
There lies great difficulty in attempting to answer the question of what is happening to culture in the era of globalisation. Even greater complications arise in the question of what a ‘global’ culture constitutes, if it truly exists at all. It may be possible to refer this as a process of the globalisation of culture—“cultural integration and cultural disintegration that transcend the state-society level and occur on a trans-national or trans-societal level” (Featherstone, 1990: 1) if we try to