Introduction
Many people endeavored to comprehend the revolutionary implications of globalization as it continues to evolve in an ordinary arena of political expression across the globe. Impacts of globalization have yielded significant results. Since time in sundry, the world was made up of global systems that kept on evolving continuously in its current form. This can be attributed to the fact that the subject was organized by comprehensible and intelligible principles. Thus, this reflective treatise attempts to explicitly show how the process of globalization, which is associated with progress, has spurred the growth of fundamentalism.
Fundamental Globalization Principles
Reflectively, the prime principle featured within globalization is the interconnected holistic phenomenon within liberalism. In fact, for the process to be complete the conscientious citizenship needs to perceive the global interrelationship between inclusive models of integration; the world explored several events and issues based in global linkages. In the process, the unbecoming radical religion dogmatism often replaces the ideals of liberalism. For instance, human population who lived in the twentieth century caused an increase in mass community that was contributed by people’s interaction and movements for economic sustainability. All these implications were closely integrated and led to the rise of mass community.
Globalization and Fundamentalism
The rise in mass community happened due to increase in democratization, urbanization and industrialization. This immense transformation is an essential focus in the current society. Politics, youth culture, media, leisure and welfare are the five distinctive features that are manifested in the modern society (Marty, Appleby & Mendelsohn 1997). Actually, mass society has weakened traditional societal values; industrial revolution weakened aristocratic and religious values. Mass culture is a society that has large scale social and impersonal institutions.
Unfortunately, radicalism associated with disinterest has led to tremendous growth of religious fundamentalism based on misinformed beliefs such as ‘justified terrorism’, ‘justified wars’, and unfair economic systems (Assmann 2005). This has brought an ultimate query to prime of all historical worlds, particularly to the current globalization. Human interaction and competition has elevated visions of human society. However, this aspect is currently threatened by the sudden changes in the social systems of the society. Thus, the paradox is how people can stay together and to attain their needs equitably, without involving in overindulgence, selfishness, and myopia.
Moreover, in the course of social evolution and globalization, people and nations form a consensus that certain practices can no longer be acceptable. Examples of such practices include slavery, physical torture, and capital punishment. Much progress has been made to end such practices. The argument in cultural perspective is based on the premise that achievement of harmony is a participatory process involving individuals in the society whose actions then influence the global change (Larsson 2004). On the hand, cultural perspective is based on the foundation that societies progress because they have the capabilities just like those possessed by past societies that allowed them to learn. Therefore, cognitive perspective is a compliment to the cultural perspective. Reflectively, cognitive perspective treats all the societies as a global an unequivocal system based on collective progress.
The world was manifested with the emergence of mass society not only in terms of social interaction: mass culture, mass welfare, mass consumerism, and mass communication, but also in numerical sense of unique population increase. Alone, a man becomes vulnerable. The progress has been marked with nature verses technology that empowered human beings to ruin the world or to make life in it unbearable. For instance, the industrial revolution in Europe, though transformed human livelihood, caused detrimental effects on ecological systems. (Marty, Appleby, Garvey & Kuran 1996). The era of the First World War was a detrimental time because it was a moment of invention of nuclear weapons. The current confusion within the spheres of the society is fear of a possible destruction of the world by these weapons.
References
Assmann, J. (2005). Collective Memory and Cultural Identity. New York: Ashgate Publishing.
Larsson, P. (2004). Understanding Religious Violence: Thinking Outside the Box on Terrorism. New York: Ashgate Publishing.
Marty, M., Appleby, S., & Mendelsohn, E. (1997). Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education. Illinois: Chicago Publishing.
Marty, M., Appleby, S., Garvey, J., & Kuran, T. (1996). Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance. Chicago: Chicago Publishing.