Globalization and Evolving Cultural Space and Structure

Abstract

Globalization is an epochal change that entails restructuring of human society, and this paper aims at elucidating the present and future shapes of human society and its sustainability. This issue is approached by placing globalization in historical perspective and visualizing it as an evolutionary process of human society. This theoretical approach is based on the conceptual framework with two references. One reference characterizes globalization as the unprecedented geographical expansion of human interaction. The other describes the evolution of human interaction in terms of its facility and control mechanism. These theories lead to elucidation of the inherent tendency of todayʼs globalization, which not only aggravates economic disparity within and without a society, but also enervates existing societal fabric and traditional culture that have sustained the societyʼs congruity. At the same time, the approach identifies the two-pronged effort to realize sustainable society, and it reveals the importance of cultivating communal culture that circumvent traditional societal borders.