Geoculture world system, access to Balkan and Albania

• Author: Ilirjan Çukaj
• Position: Metropolitan University of Tirana
• Pages: 209-215

ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 1

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Geoculture world system, access to Balkan and Albania

Ilirjan Çukaj

Metropolitan University of Tirana

Abstract

If culture as a term covers a broad range of relations and social behavior, mutually implicated in

inuential and economic cycles of the global system, then it becomes wordy geoculture. Geoculture

system is used as a term by Wallerstein (2004) who had treated it as a concept largely unused and

under a theory of geoculture which plays an important role in the present world system. e theses

that is presented in this article is that the global trajectory in the Balkan region is increasing from

culture and that, it is imperative to establish a strategic culture direction and management, which,

in turn, should be formed not only as a principal need, but also as an obligation of social state

institutions to nd the viable solutions of the global market policy, economy and culture. And in

response to the challenging question the culture of integration becomes imperative now facing

nationalism. Albania will have to manage perceptions, fears and realities arising from the above

mentioned phenomenon, to establish a balance between the “inside” and “outside” views. In this

sense main challenge of Albania is the management of cultural globalization to get the most of

opportunities despite the risk of losing ground globally.

Keyword s: Geoculture system, globalization, economy, Balkan.

Introduction

Culture consists of values. e denition of “culture” is thought as a value of “high elements

of the human mind, art, science, literature, music”. So, culture means developing a high

degree of intelligence in certain areas such as art, science (Worsley, e ird World,

1967) etc. Braudel in his book “e grammar of Civilizations”, analyses: “e Dictionary of

humanities doesn’t allow cut denitions. Not that everything in this dictionary is uncertain

or has become such, but most of the terms, not only is not dened once for all, but move

from one author to another and do not stop changing before our eyes”. Williams who

wrote “e Sociology of Culture” (Dervishi, 2000, 25-31) wrote that: “Cultural values are

general concepts that dene if a culture is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful

or ugly. Culture is related to society but the links between them are very narrow and also

dier from each other”. Every culture contains unique patterns of behavior that seem

foreign to people with dierent cultural backgrounds. Values and norms of conduct vary

widely from culture to culture. Every culture contains unique patterns of behavior that

may seem foreign to people who have dierent cultural backgrounds.” (Giddens, 2007,

49). Culture is a way of life inherited, shared and cultivated, owned by individuals for the

purpose of being members in a social group. In this sense, culture expresses more than

“having” something. It expresses that we “are” s omething. It is an internal condition of the

mind and soul, not an amount of circumstances. It’s a completely dierent distinction: a

spiritual issue. Without this “subject”, there would not be the spirit, and “we were not even