Social Experiences and the Concepts of Culture
... h. Culture is symbolic. Culture is based on arbitrarily assigned meanings that are shared by a society. Functions of Culture No Society can exist without culture which develops as an answer to the multifarious problems of the individual and group living. These problems center around meeting the surv ...
... h. Culture is symbolic. Culture is based on arbitrarily assigned meanings that are shared by a society. Functions of Culture No Society can exist without culture which develops as an answer to the multifarious problems of the individual and group living. These problems center around meeting the surv ...
xxvii conferenza italiana di scienze regionali
... The second issue relates to the ‘embeddedness’ degree of social capital. A widely accepted distinction which is made in literature on social capital distinguishes between a bonding and bridging component: the first is the set of connections which embed an actor within the community, the second is th ...
... The second issue relates to the ‘embeddedness’ degree of social capital. A widely accepted distinction which is made in literature on social capital distinguishes between a bonding and bridging component: the first is the set of connections which embed an actor within the community, the second is th ...
WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?
... boys naturally made into men through receipt of semen from older men, as the Sambia claim (Herdt 1987)? For anthropologists, these examples suggest that what is right or natural is not easily determined and that attempts to understand human nature and theories of human behavior cannot be based simpl ...
... boys naturally made into men through receipt of semen from older men, as the Sambia claim (Herdt 1987)? For anthropologists, these examples suggest that what is right or natural is not easily determined and that attempts to understand human nature and theories of human behavior cannot be based simpl ...
Chapter 5 Karen Horney
... – Sexual and aggressive strivings are NOT more important than the environment – Important experiences in the formation of character are NOT primarily sexual in nature – In adulthood, people are NOT doomed to repeat compulsively ways of behaving learned in childhood Do women really want to be men? – ...
... – Sexual and aggressive strivings are NOT more important than the environment – Important experiences in the formation of character are NOT primarily sexual in nature – In adulthood, people are NOT doomed to repeat compulsively ways of behaving learned in childhood Do women really want to be men? – ...
Transcultural Literary Studies: Politics, Theory, and Literary Analysis
... considerable pressure. At least for now, it seems that they have not been able to offer satisfactory alternatives for populations that suffer under the ill effects of globalization or believe so. Theories of transculturalism arose out of the concern that part of the blame can be attributed to an und ...
... considerable pressure. At least for now, it seems that they have not been able to offer satisfactory alternatives for populations that suffer under the ill effects of globalization or believe so. Theories of transculturalism arose out of the concern that part of the blame can be attributed to an und ...
FROM NATURAL WHOLES TO PARTICULAR UNIVERSALITY
... holistic, in the sense that it included our own past with the history of the Other – in other words, it dealt with mankind. Photos from the joint ethnographic and archaeological exhibits Hunting People (1963) and From Pickaxe to Plough (1965) reveal how this approach was carried through in displays. ...
... holistic, in the sense that it included our own past with the history of the Other – in other words, it dealt with mankind. Photos from the joint ethnographic and archaeological exhibits Hunting People (1963) and From Pickaxe to Plough (1965) reveal how this approach was carried through in displays. ...
In this brief introduction to this section on ethnography as method I
... placed inside. Culture became a branch of cognitive psychology. We went from “Let‟s try to look at behavior and describe it” to “let‟s try to look at ideas.” Now how you were to look at ideas was a bit of a problem – and some people said “Well, look at language.” That notion, that you look at idea s ...
... placed inside. Culture became a branch of cognitive psychology. We went from “Let‟s try to look at behavior and describe it” to “let‟s try to look at ideas.” Now how you were to look at ideas was a bit of a problem – and some people said “Well, look at language.” That notion, that you look at idea s ...
anthropology and business
... organizations are shaped by the interplay of interpersonal interactions, biophysical endowments, material situation, social factors and interior dynamism such as values and conscience. All that is culture. Culture is not a product but an ongoing, open-ended process. It is not just one more variable ...
... organizations are shaped by the interplay of interpersonal interactions, biophysical endowments, material situation, social factors and interior dynamism such as values and conscience. All that is culture. Culture is not a product but an ongoing, open-ended process. It is not just one more variable ...
National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples
... The recognition that people are increasingly "moving targets" (Breckenridge and Appadurai 1989:i) of anthropological enquiry is associated with the placing of boundaries and borderlands at the center of our analytical frameworks, as opposed to relegating them to invisible peripheries or anomalous da ...
... The recognition that people are increasingly "moving targets" (Breckenridge and Appadurai 1989:i) of anthropological enquiry is associated with the placing of boundaries and borderlands at the center of our analytical frameworks, as opposed to relegating them to invisible peripheries or anomalous da ...
Culture in Business: Using a Symbolic Approach
... organizational executives and managers is that the workplace climate is comprised of one singular, linear culture when, in fact, it is more complex than that. Organizational symbols offer a basis for multiple, overlapping cultures that can be observed according to how employees publicly relate to ...
... organizational executives and managers is that the workplace climate is comprised of one singular, linear culture when, in fact, it is more complex than that. Organizational symbols offer a basis for multiple, overlapping cultures that can be observed according to how employees publicly relate to ...
The Importance of Anthropology
... enormous variety of questions about humans. They are interested in both universals and differences in human populations. They want to discover when, where, and why humans appeared on the earth, how and why they have changed since then, and how and why modern human populations vary in their biologica ...
... enormous variety of questions about humans. They are interested in both universals and differences in human populations. They want to discover when, where, and why humans appeared on the earth, how and why they have changed since then, and how and why modern human populations vary in their biologica ...
DO ”GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS”?: SOME
... unchecked movement of peoples and cultures. Digital techniques of border control began using data from cyberspace to hinder such movement (Broeders 2007). Migration, once the paradigm expression of border crossing, seemed to threaten the very metropoles which had acclaimed its value for civil societ ...
... unchecked movement of peoples and cultures. Digital techniques of border control began using data from cyberspace to hinder such movement (Broeders 2007). Migration, once the paradigm expression of border crossing, seemed to threaten the very metropoles which had acclaimed its value for civil societ ...
The Social Condition of Knowledge
... need to trouble too much about the Other’ (PRR: 45). All this leads not merely to cognitive relativism, but to cognitive paralysis. Now, we can outline the scene. There are three main actors on the stage. First, there is Religious Fundamentalism, of which modern Islam is a conspicuous example. The a ...
... need to trouble too much about the Other’ (PRR: 45). All this leads not merely to cognitive relativism, but to cognitive paralysis. Now, we can outline the scene. There are three main actors on the stage. First, there is Religious Fundamentalism, of which modern Islam is a conspicuous example. The a ...
Clinical Paradigm Clashes: Ethnocentric and Political Barriers
... In any case, given that the relevant professional guilds involved have claimed the word psychotherapy, in this article I instead use ‘‘psychotherapeutic intervention’’ to refer to the full range of psychological and relational (as opposed to purely biomedical) methods of healing the mind or soul. My ...
... In any case, given that the relevant professional guilds involved have claimed the word psychotherapy, in this article I instead use ‘‘psychotherapeutic intervention’’ to refer to the full range of psychological and relational (as opposed to purely biomedical) methods of healing the mind or soul. My ...
Personality and Persuasion
... in which the effects of self-esteem and intelligence on the persuasion processes of message reception and yielding were explored. Previous personality approaches generally had not focused on the processes of influence, but rather on the general outcome of more or less influenceability. In contrast, ...
... in which the effects of self-esteem and intelligence on the persuasion processes of message reception and yielding were explored. Previous personality approaches generally had not focused on the processes of influence, but rather on the general outcome of more or less influenceability. In contrast, ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... savagery- gathering of food, mating promiscuous (brother/sister mating prohibited), basic unit of society small, nomadic “horde”, possessions ownded communally, bow & arrow used, descent reckoned through females barbarism- pottery invented, farming begun, incest prohibitions extended to include ...
... savagery- gathering of food, mating promiscuous (brother/sister mating prohibited), basic unit of society small, nomadic “horde”, possessions ownded communally, bow & arrow used, descent reckoned through females barbarism- pottery invented, farming begun, incest prohibitions extended to include ...
Key words
... The aim of the article is to discuss the importance of mid 19th century (1840-1865) for the development of Polish ethnology and cultural anthropology. On the basis of publications and archival materials from that time the author presents ethnological/anthropological interests and studies. Using the ...
... The aim of the article is to discuss the importance of mid 19th century (1840-1865) for the development of Polish ethnology and cultural anthropology. On the basis of publications and archival materials from that time the author presents ethnological/anthropological interests and studies. Using the ...
anthropology policy
... What is Europe and what is European? What holds Europe together and what pulls it apart? These are questions many ask as the Europe of old has been transformed by expanding borders and the influx of immigrants from other continents. This course will focus on issues of pressing interest to Europeans ...
... What is Europe and what is European? What holds Europe together and what pulls it apart? These are questions many ask as the Europe of old has been transformed by expanding borders and the influx of immigrants from other continents. This course will focus on issues of pressing interest to Europeans ...
Human Universals Revisited. New York and Oxford
... postmodernist thinkers have rejected the concept of human nature, at times linking it with reactionary right wing ideology, sexism, colonial thinking, and Social Darwinism. He discusses others who have tried to define a human nature based on “ontological factors” such as biological foundations or sp ...
... postmodernist thinkers have rejected the concept of human nature, at times linking it with reactionary right wing ideology, sexism, colonial thinking, and Social Darwinism. He discusses others who have tried to define a human nature based on “ontological factors” such as biological foundations or sp ...
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... even more case-based: usually they only experience one such case. The observations of such individual personal experience even in the single case may be very powerful. A mother may recognise more than her clinician the signs of what has happened and when it happened by observing two closely related ...
... even more case-based: usually they only experience one such case. The observations of such individual personal experience even in the single case may be very powerful. A mother may recognise more than her clinician the signs of what has happened and when it happened by observing two closely related ...
The Americanization of German Culture? - John-F.-Kennedy
... order to convince German society that the menace was real and the danger of the Americanization of German society imminent.3 Ironically, however, this attempt to objectify cultural criticism was the beginning of the end of the Americanization thesis in its simple, literalminded form. For as various ...
... order to convince German society that the menace was real and the danger of the Americanization of German society imminent.3 Ironically, however, this attempt to objectify cultural criticism was the beginning of the end of the Americanization thesis in its simple, literalminded form. For as various ...
the cultural continuum: a theory of intersystems
... scientists on both sides of the Atlantic. 2 The internal heterogeneity characteristic of Creole languages is tied to the diverse backgrounds of members of a Creole society, and so it is not surprising that Creole culture should encompass a comparable heterogeneity. The mode of expressing that hetero ...
... scientists on both sides of the Atlantic. 2 The internal heterogeneity characteristic of Creole languages is tied to the diverse backgrounds of members of a Creole society, and so it is not surprising that Creole culture should encompass a comparable heterogeneity. The mode of expressing that hetero ...
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... a. reversed from b. the same as c. similar to d. critical of answer a; page 3 ...
... a. reversed from b. the same as c. similar to d. critical of answer a; page 3 ...
6. Using artificial agents to understand
... a transformed outcome matrix, which may lead to other optimal solutions than choices on the basis of pure self-interest (Kelley and Thibaut, 1978; Kuhlman and Marshello, 1975; McClintock and Liebrand, 1988). The SVO people have is thus an important behavior determining factor in social dilemmas (Mes ...
... a transformed outcome matrix, which may lead to other optimal solutions than choices on the basis of pure self-interest (Kelley and Thibaut, 1978; Kuhlman and Marshello, 1975; McClintock and Liebrand, 1988). The SVO people have is thus an important behavior determining factor in social dilemmas (Mes ...
chapter 2 - Test Bank 1
... a pattern of behavior very rare learned through teasing their children seen in women but not in men REF: p. 30 ...
... a pattern of behavior very rare learned through teasing their children seen in women but not in men REF: p. 30 ...