What contemporary sociocultural anthropologist who teaches at NYU has defined the process of globalization as "an infintely varied contest of sameness and difference in a complex disjunctive disorder" or shaped by a disorganized capitalism influenced by what he terms the social imaginary?

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Lindsey Lara

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12 April, 02:50

What contemporary sociocultural anthropologist who teaches at NYU has defined the process of globalization as "an infintely varied contest of sameness and difference in a complex disjunctive disorder" or shaped by a disorganized capitalism influenced by what he terms the social imaginary?

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Jorge Baird · Answer 1

Arjun Appadurai

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Arjun Appadurai defined the process of globalization as "an infintely varied contest of sameness and difference in a complex disjunctive disorder" or shaped by a disorganized capitalism influenced by the social imaginary.

Arjun Appadurai is a Professor in New York University, He defined the process globalization as being shaped by social imaginary which is composed of five aspect of global cultural flow; ethnoscapes, technoscapes, ideoscapes, financescapes, and mediascapes.