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The Global and the Local in Politics as they Relate to Culture
The Global and the Local in Politics as they Relate to Culture

Author(s): Maja Žitinski
Subject(s): Politics and society, History and theory of political science, Culture and social structure , Globalization
Published by: Centar za politološka istraživanja
Summary/Abstract: The challenge to determine the nature of the dichotomy between the global and the local in politics is rooted in the diversity of historical circumstances that provided some nations with faster and some with slower cultural self-development. Deprived nations typically seem falsely to presume the relativistic view that there is no such thing as truth other than what is socially accepted as “true”. Therefore, small nations typically accuse big nations for biases. Globalization of social life pertains to the power to unify values particularly at the level of whether they encourage the moral standpoint of citizenship (unify the value of freedom), or values are generated by particularistic cultural world views (unify rules of suppression). The distinction between individualist and collectivist culture reveals the way in which different nations organize and prioritize their moral judgments and distinguish trivial from elevated issues. If unification of values enhances the value of communitarian identity and transforms it into the civic spirit, moral progress in politics will be possible.

  • Page Range: 177-192
  • Page Count: 16
  • Publication Year: 2008
  • Language: English