Abstract:
The research attempts to discuss the role of culture in the development
industry, by asking a major question: To what extent do cultural factors shape
the progress of development? If culture dominates this formulation, then what
are the cultural elements that support development and how can the cultural
elements that impede development be removed or changed? To answer this
question, it was necessary for us to present and discuss a number of intellectual
and theoretical views, and to try to explore the theoretical framework that
links these views and explains them.
The research also discusses the changes that occurred in the local and national
cultures due to globalization. Globalization’s objective processes imposed forms of cultural meanings of a global nature. The research also taps into the
questions “to what extent can we separate the local and global cultural
values?” and “Does adopting universal values mean sacrificing social and
cultural heritage and giving up civilizational specificity?” Or these changes
resulted from globalization being imposing objective processes that created
forms of cultural meanings of a global nature, and to what extent can we
separate the local and global cultural values ؟Does adopting universal values
mean sacrificing social and cultural heritage and giving up civilizational
specificity? Or that the introduction of universal values means: adapting these
values in a framework that serves the local and national levels and promotes
؟society