Del 41 i serien Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Liberal Bourgeois Protestantism

The Metaphysics of Globalization

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Sociological theory regarding the contemporary (1970s to the present) phenomenon of globalization focuses either on convergence or hybridization.The former, convergence, highlights the ever-increasing homogenization of cultures and societies around the globe via socioeconomic rational forces. From this perspective globalization is tantamount to Westernization or Americanization of other cultures and societies via neoliberal economic, market, subjugation. The latter, hybridization, emphasizes heterogeneity, the mixture of cultural forms out of the integration of society via globalizing processes stemming from improvements in information technology, communications, mass media, etc. In this latter form, cultures and societies are not homogenized, but are cultural forms that are syncretized with liberal democratic Western capitalist rational organization. In this work, Mocombe synthesizes the two positions by suggesting that globalization under American hegemony are the same process, convergence, and that the only alternative to this thesis of convergence is Samuel P. Huntington’s (1996) differential hypothesis in which a clash of civilization are the result of eight intransigent cultural frameworks—Sinic, Japan, Hindu, Islamic, Orthodox, Western Europe, North America, and Africa—that dominate the globe. Refutating Huntington’s thesis, Mocombe suggests there are really only two opposing counter-hegemonic forces to the convergence towards Westernization or Americanization: the earth itself and Islamic Fundamentalist movements.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-06-07
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt424 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Critical Social Sciences
Antal sidor182
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004216761

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Paul C. Mocombe is the President/CEO of The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. A social theorist interested in the application of social theory to contemporary issues such as race, class, and capitalism (globalization), he is the author of over 30 academic journal articles and books including, Oppositional Culture Theory, The Liberal Black Protestant Heterosexual Bourgeois Male: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Barack Obama, The Soul-less Souls of Black Folk: A Sociological Reconsideration of Black Consciousness as Du Boisian Double Consciousness, A Labor Approach to the Development of the Self or Modern Personality: The Case of Public Education, and Education in Globalization.

Acknowledgement1. IntroductionThe Globalizing or Westernizing Framework Sociological Theorizing of the Global Framework Focus of the AnalysisPART I: GLOBALIZATION, BOURGEOIS PROTESTANTISM AND AFRICANS IN AMERICA2. GlobalizationCapitalist HegemonyProtestant Turn3. Liberal Bourgeois ProtestantismThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismHybridization4. The Historical Constitution of African American Consciousness in GlobalizationThe Hybridization of Black AmericaAfrican Americans and the Protest EthicA Color-Caste SystemPART II: HYBRID IDENTITIES IN GLOBALIZATION5. The Historical Constitution of Grenadian Consciousness in GlobalizationResistance and Social ChangeGrenada in the Global Economy6. W.E.B. Du BoisOriginsDouble ConsciousnessClass Rational Social Structures7. Barack Hussein ObamaOriginsRace and Racial IdentityProtestantism of Obama 8. The “Others” in a World EconomyThe Other in the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismHybrid Globalization under American HegemonyGlobalization and ModernityPost-Colonial Hybrid9. Conclusion: What is to be done?References Index