GS101 Lecture Notes - Aboriginal Title, Western Settlement, Indian Act
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Week 9, lecture 1 (week 8 lecture 2 cancelled) The cultural: the symbolic construction, articulation, and dissemination of meaning (steger, 71). Meaning and identity: the reciprocal functions of sharing and not-sharing cultural norms: Culture and globalization: cultural globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe (steger, 71) how does culture flow: migration, tourism, education, cuisine, art, media (television, film, internet) Optimistic hyper globalizers: fukuyama and the end of history they think this is a good thing, that the world is moving to a world with better values than today: two basic drivers of human history. Desire for well-being, and technological means to satisfy. Technological advance necessarily adopted broadly and transforms economic organization towards capitalism. Desire for recognition (draws from hegel) all humans have desire to be recognized by other humans as equal. History as the coherent and directional transformation of human societies .
