The great outlines of modern progress and the journey are still there. The grand narrative of modernity is working and there are still landscapes of power and repression to be examined. Culture Analysis on the World Scene Cultures are changing. On the global scene there are many contradictory processes of homogenization and heterogenization working at the same time and through different means. Analyzing culture might be described as an investigation of meaning and form.
Cultures have a certain communicative and identity shaping side.
Sometimes it will grow to a weapon of controlling the other. The conceived reality of regional cultures and the interplay between them emerges from the division of rich and poor in world economy, regions reflect the establishment of a global division of labor. A general trait but also the most problematic one for the human sciences is that cultural fragmentarization is the outcome of modernistic attempts to order and come to terms with contradictions, ambiguities and the social complexity of living on the world scene.