2460 - Globalization

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

The concept of “culture” has been central to the social sciences and our understanding of human behavior. Nonetheless, explanations of how it operates can vary significantly since it encompasses a wide array of group commonalities, beyond human biology, that guide and organize behavior and help members make sense of the world around them. This is similarly the case regarding “world culture.” Broadly speaking, globalization studies tend to be dominated by accounts of political conflict or economic expansion, but accounts of world-cultural commonalities have gained traction since the 1990s. This session explores the current state of globalization research regarding world culture(s).

Sub Unit

• Globalization

Session Organizer

• Michael A. Elliott, Towson University

Presider

• Vaughn Schmutz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Individual Presentations

• The Dialectics of Universalism and Particularism: World Society, Religious Traditions, and Women’s Political Representation - Wade M. Cole, University of Utah

• Complex Innovations and Transnational Diffusion: Why the Nature of Innovations Matters - Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame; Isabel Jijon, Princeton University

• Exposure to Global Cultural Scripts through Media and Attitudes toward Violence against Women - Jeffrey Swindle, University of Michigan

Discussant

• Selina R. Gallo-Cruz, College of the Holy Cross