Globalization and Police Culture

They are criticized for not being ready and capable of responding adequately. As a public establishment, all police institutions are supposed to provide an annual report and these are usually scrutinized and criticized. This is a new culture, but the general public forgets that positive results never happen overnight. There are key considerations of planning and prioritizing. Therefore, we cannot expect police institutions to deliver on an area of a crime if they are not provided with frameworks to prioritize it. The culture at different levels offers a sense of identity and value that leads to self-confidence. Specifically, the policing culture voices what the society is and the behavior they should drive towards each other. Beyond any specific organization, Clifford, (1988) proposes that culture might evolve as an occupational beliefs, especially if members are essentially taught in a similar way focusing on similar values as the general public.

Shared ideologies often stem from common origins, training background, and the mutual contact with others within a similar profession. Based on such issues, it is evident that there is a global work-related culture within policing, and at the same time, this is the one that has attracted the most attention of various researchers. But the same framework allows for the exploration of different cuisines by people around the world. This brings in quality from different pasts such as the Chinese, India, Thailand, and Mexican restaurants (Gannon, 2007). Again a culturally connected world allows societies to explore various social paths that couldn’t have been reached in the past due to geographical issues. It is easy to be in the United States and exploring the culture of Jakarta communities or even Hinduism among others.

In the past, choices were usually very limited to what the modern society could explore and learn. Moreover, it might accept ideologies from still another second source. As result the population would become reliant of foreign ways, thus stifling their own ways in factions such as science, behavior or even language. The foreign ways of life might encourage thought processes which increase poverty and instability (Said, 2012). The modern cultural imperialism is widely favored by the revolutionary technological advancement of the 21st century. Operating with control-based frameworks, it is possible to a number of organisations and communities to spread their culture around the world with a lot of ease. Cultural imperialism, which usually occurs in the form of social and political domination leads to stagnated growth and development.

This has been common in the international trade and mostly in unregulated international investments by the developed countries as well as transnational organizations. Tomlinson, (2001) adds that “An economic invasion is usually attended by cultural invasion and which political influence is the primary channel in the contemporary world. ” Other Ways to Think About Culture and Globalization De/territorialisation With the growth of interconnectedness through technological capabilities, it has been easy to access a wide range of cultures. Moreover, there is also new reapproachment of various cultures and nation states that earlier used to cohabit in space. For such important issues should be theorized to the maximum levels. The standard approach to deterritorialization is by taking it for an unproblematic given, in which it is discussed, redrawn and redistributed without cases of conceptual problematisation.

Richmond, & Valtonen, (1994) supports this by indicating that “there are always disputes over territories, but none over ‘territory” (pp. The territorial part of this discussion is that, in contrast to a community, cultural legitimacy has been overlooked for a considerable period of time. However, the territorial aspect is important in the sense that the state is, in fact, an existing place both a central space and a unified territory. All this expresses the idea that heterogeneity can only be achieved in order to establish deterritorialization and unity. Therefore, in modern social development, it is not just territorial frameworks of social life is growing. Rather, a much bigger process is involved which includes globalisations and internationalization as well as strengthening the independence of small social groups and individuals.

These factors have played a huge role in eliminating the particular territorial cultural identities that communities have known for quite a long period of time. Therefore, increased accessibility of global space is manifested through the shift from the traditional cohabitation to the interpenetration of cultural and territorial identities. Such a self-Justifying idea has provoked criticism from various scholars in both the concept as well as everyday life of the modern society. We can, therefore, conclude that it is true in Appadurai’s argument that all major social and cultural forces have precursors and their sources in the past. It is with such deep genealogies that the aspiration of globalization and modernization in various societies can be synchronized. Therefore we can support a general rupture in the period of inter-social connections over the past few decades.

However, such view of change indeed needs to be explicated much clearly and differentiated from the early concepts or cultural transformations in the wake of globalization. The gradual movement of people and ideologies exist in different forms. One major characteristic of such a phenomenon according to Appadurai is deterritorialization, where different cultural groups living apart from their original territories change their scapes, thus adapting them to the new circumstances and creating a framework for openness to globalization and retention of the original identity (Appadurai, 1990). Overall, Appadurai provides thoughts as a social movement to action in the modern world and the framework of production of alternative forms of identity beyond the traditional territories. The development of media and the internet has created an imagined world, therein developing ideas of a single global cultural economy.

The way of thinking about the world has a huge impact on self-understanding as well as self-representation, in the sense that these externalities transform imaginations into diacritics. Echoing Democritus, Crank, (2014) states that cultural diversity is fundamental to the vigor and progressive capacity of the world at large. The rich variety of human experience, and potential, are often mirrored in cultural multiplicity, which offers some a pool to spur development towards the ever-increasing social, rational and political accomplishments and forms a sense of community. It is accurate to say that globalization leads to gain of the human understanding of multiplicity. This issue has been addressed properly by many sociologists Crane, Kawashima, & Kawasaki, (2016), who specialized on the procedures of group creation and diversity.

They noted that groups usually grow in their sizes to become much more differentiated than ever before. This section offers an outline of the common description of the policing culture, how culture change has been influenced by multiple factors and how new police officers are being socialized. There are multiple forms of culture that originate within the field of policing and at the same time new cultures are emerging from one police organization to another. Culture is to collective perspective as personality is to characters or to individuals. Karpiak, & Garriott, (2018) argues that “we can the resulting behaviors can be observed buy no one really understands what might be occurring below the exterior to effect such behaviors “. Well-known culture expert Jauregui, (2013). Conclusion The paper has offered a comprehensive overview of culture, globalization and how policing has been influenced by these two phenomena.

However, there other miniature factors such as; working style, ranks, and job operations as well as police organizations. In addition, the police force culture is usually perceived as a huge obstacle to societal and organizational changes. Moreover, It has been observed as an aspect that reserves negative activities such as; harassment, police brutality and discernment. Even though the police culture constantly changes to one which is universally characterized on the undesirable issues, this kind of a stereotype might not be globally applicable. , Goldbard, A. , & Ybarra-Frausto, T. Community, culture, and globalization. New York: Rockefeller Foundation. Bradford, B. , Kawashima, N. , & Kawasaki, K. I. (Eds. Global culture: Media, arts, policy, and globalization. Social and personality psychology compass, 1(1), 84-100. Clifford, J. The predicament of culture.