Ten Must-read Books on Social Culture

Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of culture. Mankind has entered the stage of "cultural development", and the struggle between the state and the nation has finally risen to a cultural struggle. If the Chinese nation wants to stand among the nations of the world forever, it is the only way to uphold, develop and carry forward Chinese culture. The following are required books on social culture:

1. Oppose monolingualism-linguistic and cultural diversity

Hai Ruo, a world famous linguist.

A boycott order against single language was issued.

People are very concerned about the careful arrangement of merchants.

Travel that excludes all personality elements is enjoyment.

People are worried about safety.

Fascinated by money and economic success.

This single language is far from being a simple consequence of some crisis situation. It has been actively promoted in small groups and circles promoted by politicians, intellectuals, entrepreneurs and media celebrities. Everyone is an accomplice in an activity encouraged or directed by Atlanticism and its bridgehead-Brussels and the European Union-which aims to make some European countries, especially France, give up their sovereignty.

2. "Intelligence-Cultural Territory in the Internet Age"

Grasp the main trend of digitalization under the international geopolitical pattern

How to grasp the general trend of digital mainstream under the international geopolitical pattern?

The elements that make up Silicon Valley are unique: the communication and infiltration between research, financing and enterprise innovation; California's unique cultural diversity and linguistic diversity; Belief in enterprise innovation, preaching to enterprise culture and tolerance to failure; Some kind of resistance to work and capitalism; The wavering relationship between selflessness and greed; User profile and scalability; Active instability; A special lifestyle that not only pays attention to social life but also cultivates individuality; Stanford's secret sauce; San Francisco's anti-orthodoxy culture-all the elements above Silicon Valley, can hardly be copied elsewhere.

Silicon Valley is both a digital past and a digital future (HP and Square Payment). With its own particularity, it paradoxically proves that the digital field cannot be a completely global phenomenon. "The future of the Internet and technology is being written into real life. It depends on the network of people we know and the real land. " Developer Kyle Guble said. Sometimes, in order to have a glimmer of hope for survival on the Internet, you even have to take yourself out on Halloween and dress yourself up as a pickle in the real world.

3. The crisis of neoliberalism

A profound analysis of the global economic crisis

Will the American hegemonic model be replaced by the multipolar world model?

This crisis, which began in August 2007, will be a special milestone in the history of capitalism.

In any case, the new world order will be more multipolar than it is now. Moreover, if the United States cannot successfully realize these changes, the decline of American international hegemony will be drastic. Under the same class leadership and unlimited globalization trend, all the tasks urgently needed to slow down the relative recession of the American economy in the next few decades will not be realized. The irresistible pursuit of high income by the upper class must stop. To a large extent, this will depend on the pressure exerted by the mass class and all ethnic groups in the world, and the "national factor", that is, the national commitment to help the United States maintain its leading position in the world, will also play a vital role.

4. The decline of American drama-how does France survive?

Take American TV series as a mirror to see why it declined and how it was reborn.

Is the decline of drama a product of America or a trend of this era?

Why can drama survive in France and most European countries?

American community culture has a great influence on many minority groups around the world, so it symbolizes the liberation of blacks, Latinos, women and homosexuals. The descendants of French immigrants from North Africa listen to American rap music, German gay men absorb American gay culture, British women read American feminist books, and Spaniards listen to Latin American songs, which are generally made in Miami. Americans even know how to criticize their own culture and analyze their own imperialist systems from various angles, such as Noam Chomsky and michael moore. This often leads us to turn to … American writers to criticize America.

5. On cultural imperialism

Research on Political Economy from Multidisciplinary Perspective

Added an outstanding achievement.

How did the United States successfully realize its role in the world?

Cultural domination in most areas?

In the past 10,000 years, power centers began to appear slowly in some of these places and spread to the global scope. This power is first combined in the form of state, and then combined in the market structure. In fact, in today's era, in a big political (national) and economic (market) country, "axis institutions can unite and operate at the local, national, regional and even international levels at the expense of culture. In the past, culture was the main source of social cohesion.

6. CIA in Hollywood

The best auxiliary material for propaganda of anti-espionage law.

What impact will the image of the CIA in foreign films have on the international intelligence community?

American institutions employ entertainment liaison officers all the year round to enhance their public image in the mass media. For example, in 1930s, the FBI set up an office to improve its work in Iron Man (1935), FBI Story (1959) and FBI (65433). The Ministry of National Defense began to follow suit 1947. Now, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service all have film and television offices or official media assistants.

7. TV series-form, ideology and mode of production

The secret of the success of Hollywood series movies in the pop world

Why do TV plays need ideological planning?

"It is such a country that no matter what happens, it is keen on politics and is eager for ideas and suggestions. It is such a country that always thinks about its position in the world and the consequences of this position. "

The use value of a drama series is related to its "entertainment" quality, but these qualities will offset each other (montage norms, narrative norms, character types, and other aspects). A series stands out among its peers because of its ideological output.

8. "Great Differentiation-Neo-liberalism is coming to an end"

Reveal the fundamental reasons why the European Union, Japan and other places failed to get out of the crisis as soon as possible.

Is Utopia dead? Was it buried?

Why does the progress of socialization inevitably lead to the end of neoliberalism?

All men are born equal and enjoy equal rights. However, due to the failure to live according to this principle, women can't expect the same status as men. For some widely distributed organisms that are considered as inferior "races", it will take longer to win a complete position in the human family. These are all kinds of roads that social development has taken. They are too slow, too tortuous and too biased.

9. The rise of modernism in the age of entertainment empire.

The author has put forward the most convincing argument on the cause of this phenomenon in Harry Potter so far.

10. Archives of Imperial Authority: Empire, Culture and the Cold War

An important work that reveals the truth that forms the world literature territory today.

A book that questions and challenges the compilation framework of the history of world literature.