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The module is taught by a lecture series that runs across all three terms, and by one-to-one supervision from January onwards. The lecture series begins by introducingyou to the varying ideas about, and definitions of, research as they are found across the social sciences, arts and humanities.You'll learn about different approaches to knowledge creation, including questions of objectivity and standpoint, the idea of `action' research, and more practical questions of reliability, validity and sampling. You'll also learn about different ways of thinking about research ethics, and about decolonial approaches to research design.You'll then behelped to apply these ideas and devise your own research question and topic, which forms the substance of Milestone 1. This formatively assessed piece of work is submitted at the end of the Autumn term and enables the allocation of a personal supervisor for the rest of the academic year. In Deciphering Pocahontas, [71] Kent Ono and Derek Buescher wrote: "Euro-American culture has made a habit of appropriating, and redefining what is 'distinctive' and constitutive of Native Americans."

The final element that you need to look at is how power is distributed in your organisation. Which power structures have you implemented in your organisational chart? How do they influence the core assumptions in your corporate culture? What core beliefs do your managers hold? What about your employees? Is employee empowerment valued and promoted in your company? Do you trust your employees to carry out their duties to the best of their ability? If not, why not? In A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, Spivak argues that Western philosophy has a history of not only exclusion of the subaltern from discourse, but also does not allow them to occupy the space of a fully human subject. The term refers largely to the exercise of power in a cultural relationship in which the principles, ideas, practices, and values of a powerful, invading society are imposed upon indigenous cultures in the occupied areas. The process is often used to describe examples of when the compulsory practices of the cultural traditions of the imperial social group are implemented upon a conquered social group. The process is also present when powerful nations are able to flood the information and media space with their ideas, limiting countries and communities ability to compete and expose people to locally created content. Maxwell, Richard (2003). Herbert Schiller. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-1847-7. OCLC 52134906. the sum processes by which a society is brought into the modern [U.S.-centered] world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centres of the system. The public media are the foremost example of operating enterprises that are used in the penetrative process. For penetration on a significant scale the media themselves must be captured by the dominating/penetrating power. This occurs largely through the commercialization of broadcasting. [24]In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?", by David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy no. 107, Summer 1997, pp.38–53, which argues that cultural imperialism is a positive thing.

Mirrlees, Tanner (2015). "U.S. Empire and Communications Today: Revisiting Herbert I. Schiller". The Political Economy of Communication. 3 (2): 6. Another context is that peoples in developing nations resist to foreign media and preserve their cultural attitudes. Although he admits that outward manifestations of Western culture may be adopted, but the fundamental values and behaviours remain still. Furthermore, positive effects might occur when male-dominated cultures adopt the "liberation" of women with exposure to Western media [47] and it stimulates ample exchange of cultural exchange. [48] Criticisms of "cultural imperialism theory" [ edit ] Written influences: your organisational chart (flat or hierarchical). Who works where, who reports to whom, and who has final decision-making power? Caruso, Jennifer (2012). "Turn This Water into Wine". Australian Feminist Studies. 27 (73): 279–287. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2012.705575. S2CID 146125147.Types of recreation – This can include motorcycle riding, drinking, hiking, dancing, and so on. Dominant recreation pursuits can differ from culture to culture, but also within cultures. Sen, Ronojoy (27 October 2015). Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-53993-7. Although the Oxford English Dictionary has a 1921 reference to the "cultural imperialism of the Russians", [17] John Tomlinson, in his book on the subject, writes that the term emerged in the 1960s [18] and has been a focus of research since at least the 1970s. [19] Terms such as " media imperialism", "structural imperialism", "cultural dependency and domination", "cultural synchronization", " electronic colonialism", "ideological imperialism", and " economic imperialism" have all been used to describe the same basic notion of cultural imperialism. [20] We can consider almost everything a cultural trait. Whatever belongs to a culture and whatever is the product of the culture can be a cultural trait.