Exam 2: Culture

About fifteen years ago,the giant Walmart corporation opened a store in Germany.Ten years later,it closed the entire chain there and pulled out of the country.Its approach was to replicate-exactly- the stores found in the United States.For some corporations like McDonalds,such expansion has been successful.These efforts are all part of how globalization tends to

A global outlook that is emerging in response to increasing globalization and that involves linking cultural practices,norms,and values across great distances to even the most remote areas of the world is termed

The text tells the story of how actor Richard Gere's public kiss of an Indian movie star was seen as a serious broach of etiquette,something that he undoubtedly did not foresee at the time.Both Gere and those who criticized him can be seen as

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)described hegemony as one of two primary aspects of power.Define hegemony and provide a minimum of two concrete examples of how it serves as a form of power.What is the second aspect of power that Gramsci described,and how does it differ from hegemony? Which of the two aspects of power do you believe is likely to be more effective and why?

Franz Boas (1858-1942)rejected unilineal cultural evolution,instead suggesting that different cultures arise as the result of very different causes and will vary widely.His approach,still regarded today as a powerful counter to ethnocentrism,is referred to as