Charles Taylor and Culture

Some conceptual refreshing from my introductory IR course:

• The cultural world contains three elements - traditional culture (world of beliefs and practice, cultural identities, ethnicity, race/religion), popular culture (global consumer culture - westernization/cultural imperialism), and global political culture (spread of western ideals and norms of political and economic behavior)


• Culture and national identity - what is national identity like in Second Life


• Charles Taylor
  
• Individualism over communal values
• Dominance of institution reasoning
• Technology and instrumental thinking limits our choices and marginalizes alternatives