文档介绍：Culture & Conflict of civilizations
Ideology & Socialism and capitalism
Morality
Lecture 8
Ⅰ. Culture & Conflict of Civilizations
Culture
Civilization
Conflict of civilizations
Culture
★ refers monly shared behavior patterns, including language, traditions, values, customs, institutions, and religious beliefs of a particular social group.
Civilization
★ posed of those elements that bind people together such mon language, religion, customs, institutions, and identification with a particular culture.
★ Samuel P. Huntington defines civilization as the “ highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest level of cultural identity people have short of that which distinguishes them from other species.”
Conflict of civilizations
★ In his article “The Clash of Civilization? “, Samuel P. Huntington outlined this new theory of international relations for the post-Cold War which suggests culture differences have supplanted ideological differences as the most important source of conflict among people and states.
Communism
★ An ideology originated in the works of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx that is essentially an economic theory. As such, it is the idea that an oppressed proletariat class of works would anize and revolt against those who owned the means of production, the bourgeoisie; a political system of government applied in Soviet Union, China, and elsewhere, wherein the state owns the means of production as a system to expedite Engels and Marx’s economic theory.
Capitalism
★ An economic system based on the private ownership of the production and distribution of goods, competition and profit incentives.
Based on private enterprise and free-market system.
★ The attempt to impose your own value system on others, including judging others by how closely they conform to your norms.
Cultural Imperialism
★ A social theory that argues it is proper that stronger people will prosper and will dominate lesser peoples.
Social Darwinism
Imperialism:
★ A ter