Hereunder you may watch a rather educational slideshow presentation on the the topic : Socio - Cultural Aspects of Global Development in the context of Global Development Policy. The PPT was mad from me and two other students.

In the following paragraphs you may find some notes, comments, statements and facts made in relation with this presentation:

What is culture anyway?

Impossible to define.. In fact, most of the important work written on culture and society does not come from those directly studying ‘culture’. The main argument is whether it is the medium within which other developments take place OR the residual category for all aspects of society which are not already accounted for. Further reference to Foster (6 characteristics of culture) 

- Socio-cultural systems are sensible, integrated wholes

- All systems are dynamic

- Every culture has a value system

- Cultural forms, and individual behaviour, come from ingrained premises

- Common culture makes social life possible

Africanization?!

Colonization - Decolonization - Modernization - Globalization

Negritude

Positive emphasis on Africanness is a feature of francophone, pan-Africanism

Transnational Media Impact

-many parts of the DW only get selective and sporatic attention

-favour natural disasters

-1984 famine in Ethiopia and the impact of the BBC coverage

-Somalia’s experience: US intervention was unhelpful, became self-reliant and vulnerable to Islamic fundamentalist control

Propostion

"Repercussions of gender stratification and institutionalized sexism.

Inconsistency due to colonization is damaging.

Instability separates developed from developing countries."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5M66OFg4mY