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CULTURAL IMPERIALISM [1 record]

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Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Theories and Doctrines
  • Sociology of Ideologies
  • Social Organization
CONT

Cultural imperialism, in anthropology, sociology, and ethics, [is] the imposition by one usually politically or economically dominant community of various aspects of its own culture onto another nondominant community.

OBS

[Cultural] imperialism became one of the primary instruments of colonization.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
  • Sociologie des idéologies
  • Organisation sociale
CONT

L'impérialisme culturel désigne, au sens large, la répression et la destruction de cultures par des États dominants à travers des moyens économiques, politiques ou militaires.

Spanish

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