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2. Cross-cultural psychology as a social science: Comments on Faucheux's paper.
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Taft, Ronald
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CULTURE ,RESEARCH ,SOCIAL psychology ,FEAR ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The article presents comments of the author on the article "Cross-Cultural Research in Experimental Social Psychology," by researcher Faucheux Claude. He discusses cross-cultural psychology as a social science and states that every human being perceives, imagines, fears, learns, evaluates, communicates, responds and strives. The scientific study of these phenomena and the attempt to explain them is the domain of psychology, which employs for that purpose distal and proximal antecedent variables and mediating processes. The culture is actually embedded in each of the other distal antecedents. This confirms that the human being and his environment constitute an interacting system and makes it impossible to isolate cross-cultural and social psychology from related disciplines.
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- 1976
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3. Research reported in the AJA: Who does it and where do they do it?
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Howe, Anna and Jeon, Yun‐Hee
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ELDER care ,AGING ,HEALTH facilities ,MEDICAL research ,SERIAL publications ,SOCIAL sciences ,SURVEYS ,OCCUPATIONAL roles - Abstract
Objective: To review research published in the AJA in terms of authors' positions and disciplinary backgrounds, and the settings in which research was done. Methods: Eighty two papers by 373 authors, in Vol. 35 No 1, March 2016, to Vol 37 No 2, June 2018, were reviewed. Results: Different clusters of authorship were found for research using surveys or database analyses, research in hospitals and aged care settings. Two out of three authors held academic positions, and professional practitioners in hospitals were much more likely to have academic affiliations than in aged care settings. Differing research cultures are seen to contribute to these outcomes. Conclusions: Editorial policies have been central to maintaining publication standards. The Journal's publication partners could take a number of actions to advance recognition of professionals in different roles as authors and to expand the range of research published, especially nursing and social science research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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4. Positivism and Interpretation in Sociology: Lessons for Sociologists from the History of Stress Research.
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Abbott, Andrew
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POSITIVISM ,SOCIOLOGY ,ANXIETY ,METHODOLOGY ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
This paper examines the relation between positivistic and interpretive sociology, using the stress research literature as a case study. Analyzing the cultural history of the stress concept, it uncovers four central themes: anxiety, performance, adjustment, and mentalism, Examining the self-criticismc made by scientific students of stress, it focuses on the problems of temporal order, confounding, and interaction. Comparison of the cultural and scientific literatures shows that while some of the positivists' complaints derive from general methodological choices, others come from inescapable aspects of the culture's general idea of stress. Considering the past development of stress research, the paper argues that positivism and interpretation have not been Cartesian opposites but interpenetrating fractals. It then speculates about what this relation implies for future positivistic studies, both in the stress literature and more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1990
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5. The Ethnic Patterning of Health: New Directions for Theory and Research.
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Smaje, Chris
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STUDY & teaching of ethnicity ,GROUP identity ,RACE ,HEALTH ,SOCIAL sciences ,ETHNOCENTRISM - Abstract
This paper argues that analysis of the ethnic patterning of health has failed adequately to examine the social meaning of ethnicity, while too often becoming enmeshed in unhelpful dualities which counterpose material to cultural explanations, multiculturalism to anti-racism, and sociology to epidemiology. Against the background of anthropological, objectivist and postmodern theories in the broader sociology of 'race' and ethnicity, the paper develops a concept of ethnicity for the purposes of health research. This is used to evaluate biological, migration-based, material, cultural and racism-based explanations for the ethnic patterning of health. It is argued that these types of explanation are best understood within an interactive framework. The methodological implications of this for future research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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6. Nations, National Cultures, and Natural Languages: A Contribution to the Sociology of Nations.
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Pickel, Andreas
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CULTURE ,LANGUAGE & languages ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL impact ,SOCIAL sciences ,CULTURAL pluralism - Abstract
This paper seeks to contribute to the sociology of nations, a literature that is only starting to carve out its place in the social sciences. The paper offers a reconceptualization of 'nations' as 'national cultures', employing an evolutionary perspective and a systemic framework in which 'nations' are understood as cultural systems of a special kind. National cultures are intimately tied to natural languages, and the acquisition of a national culture occurs as part and parcel of the acquisition of a natural language. Acquiring a natural language is a prerequisite for learning other cultural systems (artefactual languages as well as other natural languages). National cultures function as metacultures. They are also the reference cultures for modern states and their citizens, a political dimension of nations that is of paramount importance, though it will only be touched on in this paper. National cultures should be considered as the most fundamental type of cultural system today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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7. Concepts of bounded agency in education, work, and the personal lives of young adults.
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Evans, Karen
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YOUNG adults ,EDUCATION ,UNEMPLOYMENT ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Copyright of International Journal of Psychology is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2007
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8. Telling cultures: ‘cultural’ issues for staff reporting concerns about colleagues in the UK National Health Service.
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Ehrich, Kathryn
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MEDICAL errors ,PHYSICIANS ,ORGANIZATIONAL structure ,PATIENT safety ,HEALTH policy ,SOCIAL sciences ,GOVERNMENT policy ,CORRUPTION - Abstract
Recent UK health policy initiatives promote a ‘no blame culture’ and learning from adverse events to enhance patient safety in the NHS. Similar initiatives exist in the USA and Australia. Changing the ‘blame culture’ in the NHS has been advocated in policy documents and inquiry reports for over a decade. Some key concepts that are used in the policy discourse –‘blame’; mistakes, errors and misdemeanours; and ‘culture’– are examined and considered in the light of pertinent social science literature to question some of the assumptions concerning these terms in the policy discourse, and to suggest some alternative questions and perspectives. The Three Inquiries, a recent series of statutory inquiries held in the UK, are used as a case study to explore some of the intra- and inter-professional difficulties of reporting errors and misconduct by medical practitioners. The paper offers an interpretive social science perspective as an alternative to more policy oriented and managerial approaches to patient safety issues, focusing on deeper structural aspects of organisational phenomena implicated in the ability or otherwise of medical and other healthcare staff to report mistakes and misconduct as one aspect of patient safety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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9. A Dynamic, Multi-Level Model of Culture: From the Micro Level of the Individual to the Macro Level of a Global Culture.
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Erez, Miriam and Gati, Efrat
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CULTURE ,HISTORICAL sociology ,CIVILIZATION ,GLOBALIZATION ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,APPLIED psychology ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Copyright of Applied Psychology: An International Review is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2004
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10. Speaking Together, Thinking Together? Exploring Metaphor and Cognition in a Shipyard Union Dispute.
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Ignatow, Gabriel
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SOCIAL perception ,LABOR disputes ,INDUSTRIAL relations ,SOCIAL participation ,SOCIAL groups ,SOCIOLOGICAL research ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Social scientists recognize that discourses are structured by historical and social processes, but only rarely make the case that discourses have internal coherence due to processes of individual and social cognition. Where social scientists have argued for internal structuring, however, they have disagreed over how language and cognition interact for (1) individuals, (2) dyads, and (3) social groups. Using semantic sequence and metaphor analysis, I analyze transcripts of a series of meetings of Scottish shipyard workers in order to investigate cognitive schemas structuring the workers' discourse. Results show how individuals' schemas shaped their participation in their group's discourse. Possible future uses of the analytic method developed in this paper are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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11. Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: Explorations at the Edges of Culture and Consciousness.
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Gammeltoft, Tine M. and Segal, Lotte Buch
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PSYCHOANALYSIS ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,SUBJECTIVITY ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
An essay on how psychoanalysis stimulate anthropological thinking is presented. Topics covered include the similarities between psychoanalysis and anthropology; skepticism towards efforts to forge engagements between psychoanalysis and anthropology; and an overview of papers on how psychoanalytic tools were used to gain insights on subjectivity, society and culture.
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- 2016
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12. Nonlinear Thermodynamics and Social Science Modeling: Fad Cycles, Cultural Development and Identificational Slips.
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Khalil, Elias L.
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THERMODYNAMICS ,PHYSICAL & theoretical chemistry ,SOCIAL sciences ,MODELS & modelmaking ,SOCIAL development ,CULTURE - Abstract
The paper argues that the application of nonlinear dynamics borrowed from thermodynamics for the study of the evolution of institutions amounts to an identificational slip While the paper welcomes the importation of techniques from the natural sciences, the thermodynamic feedback is simply an inappropriate technique for the study of evolutionary change Thermodynamic feedback is only appropriate for the study of social dynamics like mob behavior, stock market gyrations, and fad cycles. One should rather appeal to the evolution of species--as recorded by change of gene frequency and phenotypic traits--as the appropriate metaphor for the study of evolution of culture--as manifested by change of rules and principles and their consequent order [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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13. Who Now Debates Functionalism? From System, Change and Conflict to "Culture, Choice, and Praxis".
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Demerath III, N.J.
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FUNCTIONALISM (Social sciences) ,ETHNOLOGY -- Philosophy ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIAL systems ,FILIBUSTERS (Political science) ,PARLIAMENTARY practice - Abstract
This paper makes a strategic return to an earlier sociological era as a way of charting where we have been and where we are heading. Specifically, it returns to the debate over functionalism as represented in a volume edited by the author and Richard Peterson in 1967 entitled System, Change and Conflict. The paper argues that little of that controversy remains, but that several key issues have taken on new forms and serve as the foci of new disputes. A comparable volume today would require a quite different title, perhaps "Culture, Choice, and Praxis." The paper briefly reviews the three new movements referred to and the issues surrounding them. It concludes with remarks on the changing role of theory itself within sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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14. POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND INEQUALITY: A CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS.
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DRYZEK, JOHN
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EQUALITY ,SOCIAL sciences ,ECONOMIC development ,CULTURE ,POLITICAL science ,SOCIAL classes - Abstract
This paper investigates the determinants of social inequality in a quantitative cross-sectional analysis of developed Western nations. The underlying dimensions of these determinants are classified as political and economic development on the one hand and cultural homogeneity coupled with class politics on the other. It is found that the homogeneity-class politics dimension explains a considerable proportion of the cross-national variation in social equality, but that the development dimension has little discernable impact upon degree of equality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1978
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15. Buddhism and the Definition of Religion: One More Time.
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Herbrechtsmeier, William
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BUDDHISM ,RELIGION ,UPAYA (Buddhism) ,CULTURE ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
This paper argues that the belief in and reverence for superhuman beings cannot be understood as the chief distinguishing characteristic of religious phenomena. The consideration of Buddhism has always been central to the discussion of what religion is, and this paper focuses on the limitations of the human-superhuman dichotomy as it might be used to apply to Buddhist traditions. The argument makes three points: a) There are important sects of Buddhism that do not rely on reverence for superhuman beings, and the concept "superhuman" is difficult (if not impossible) to use in cross-cultural studies because of cultural variations in what it means to be human; b) the insistence that "philosophies" should be systematically distinguished from "religions" is arbitrary and culturally biased; and c) Buddhist doctrines that assert that reality is ultimately "nondual" provide the conceptual context for understanding superhuman beings in Mahayana, and this conceptuality is not consonant with superhuman definitions of religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1993
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16. Two reports on the Eleventh World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, August 1986: Sessions of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Urban and Regional Development.
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Panjwani, Narendra
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,SOCIOLOGY ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,METHODOLOGY - Abstract
This article presents two reports on the Eleventh World Congress of Sociology, that was organized in New Delhi in August 1986. If there is any unity across cultures among sociologists or others working in this field, it is provided neither by shared theories or concepts, nor by a common choice of topic studied, except in a very loose sense. Rather the international research community in our field is sustained through the sharing of a general perspective on society, a methodology and a more or less common Marxist-leftist political attitude. Political attitude is at least as important as the other two features, and is perhaps the key to a characterization of the events at the Delhi conference. The attitude of socio-political concern and engagement seems to be most productive in research terms when it is a counter-strategy, working in opposition to the dominant economic-political tendencies of a given society. This position was largely absent from the first world research reported. On the other hand, the moment it either becomes part of the political power structure or finds itself paralleling the efforts of the dominating parts it formerly saw as opponents, it faces a crisis. Such positions characterized the first and second world research presented.
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- 1987
17. The Logic of Multi-Local Living Arrangements: Methodological Challenges And the Potential of Qualitative Approaches.
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Schier, Michaela, Schlinzig, Tino, and Montanari, Giulia
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SOCIAL networks ,EVERYDAY life ,RESIDENTIAL areas ,SOCIAL sciences ,CULTURE ,RESIDENTIAL mobility - Abstract
ABSTRACT Although historically by no means an unknown phenomenon, the social and cultural sciences are rediscovering multi-local living and residence. Research on residential multi-locality focuses especially on practices of multiple local daily life management, appropriations and their contextualisation, attachment, exchange, mobility and interactions between social relationships at different locations. Aside from quantitative approaches, research attempts to open up empirically observable dynamics and new qualities of multi-local life at a deep level. The consideration of the development of multi-local living arrangements in contemporary societies raises conceptual as well as methodological questions, and demands new and revised methods for investigating the phenomenon. After a phenomenological outline of residential multi-locality, the paper formulates requirements to be met by research designs, then outlines, with reference to a study of multi-locality of the family, how the subject may be treated in the framework of qualitative methodology and indicates potentials and limitations of the suggested approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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18. The Roles of Evolution in the Social Sciences: Is Biology Ballistic?
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Franks, Bradley
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SOCIAL sciences ,EVOLUTIONARY theories ,SOCIAL constructionism ,SOCIAL psychology ,CULTURE - Abstract
This paper discusses some widespread but often not fully articulated views concerning the possible roles of biology and evolution in the social sciences. Such views cluster around a set of intuitions that suggest that evolution's role is 'ballistic': it constitutes a starting point for mind that has been, and is, superseded by the role of culture and social construction. An implication is that evolved and the socially constructed aspects of mind are separable and independent, with the latter being the primary driver of mind. I outline four variants of the ballistic view. I then show how current findings and arguments in evolutionary thinking as related to mind contradict those ballistic views. The contrary view-that evolutionary and social factors are interdependent in the generation of social psychological capacities-is proposed as a consequence. This view is able to respect some insights of theories that make ballistic assumptions, whilst avoiding those assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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19. Impression of Liusanjie: Effect of mood on experience and satisfaction.
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Huang, Yanling, Scott, Noel, Ding, Peiyi, and Cheng, Daopin
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CULTURE ,SOCIAL history ,SOCIAL sciences ,PERFORMANCES ,PERFORMING arts - Abstract
This paper examines the effect of mood on satisfaction derived from experiencing an iconic and immersive cultural performance in Guilin, China called Impression of Liusanjie using structural equation modeling. Mood, together with visitor expectations and performance evaluations, was found to be significantly related to satisfaction and future intentions to recommend the show to others. Satisfaction was more strongly related to experiential evaluation of the performance than with attribute evaluation. The results indicate that understanding the mood and experiential outcomes for visitors at a performance is important increasing satisfaction and word-of-mouth recommendations. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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20. The changing meaning of disaster.
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Furedi, Frank
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DISASTERS ,CURIOSITIES & wonders ,ACCIDENTS ,CULTURE ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Adverse events such as disasters are interpreted through a system of meaning provided by culture. Historically, research into society's response to disasters provides numerous examples of community resilience in face of adversity. However, since the 1980s, numerous researchers have challenged the previous optimistic accounts and argue that such incidents result in long-term damage to the community. It is claimed that community response to a disaster episode is far more likely to be defined by its vulnerability than its resilience. This new vulnerability paradigm of disaster response is underpinned by the belief that contemporary technologically driven disasters have a peculiarly destructive outcome. This paper explores the changing conceptualisation of adversity. It suggests that the shift from the expectation of resilience to that of vulnerability is best understood as an outcome of a changing cultural conceptualisation of adversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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21. The Cognitive Origins of Bourdieu'sHabitus.
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Lizardo, Omar
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HABITUS (Sociology) ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIOLOGY ,CULTURE - Abstract
This paper aims to balance the conceptual reception of Bourdieu's sociology in the United States through a conceptual re-examination of the concept of Habitus. I retrace the intellectual lineage of the Habitus idea, showing it to have roots in Claude Levi-Strauss structural anthropology and in the developmental psychology of Jean Piaget, especially the latter's generalization of the idea of operations from mathematics to the study of practical, bodily-mediated cognition. One important payoff of this exercise is that the common misinterpretation of the Habitus as an objectivist and reductionist element in Bourdieu's thought is dispelled. The Habitus is shown to be instead a useful and flexible way to concep-tualize agency and the ability to transform social structure. Thus ultimately one of Bourdieu's major contributions to social theory consists of his development of a new radical form of cognitive sociology, along with an innovative variety of multilevel sociological explanation in which the interplay of different structural orders is highlighted. In keeping with the usual view, the goal of sociology is to uncover the most deeply buried structures of the different social worlds that make up the social universe, as well as the "mechanisms" that tend to ensure their reproduction or transformation. Merging with psychology, though with a kind of psychology undoubtedly quite different from the most widely accepted image of this science, such an exploration of the cognitive structures that agents bring to bear in their practical knowledge of the social worlds thus structured. Indeed there exists a correspondence between social structures and mental structures, between the objective divisions of the social world . . . and the principles of vision and division that agents apply to them (Bourdieu, 1996b[1989], p. 1). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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22. Consumption and its discontents: addiction, identity and the problems of freedom.
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Reith, Gerda
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SOCIAL psychology ,COMPULSIVE behavior ,CULTURE ,HISTORY of sociology ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The focus of this paper is on the notion of ‘addictive consumption’, conceived as a set of discourses that are embedded within wider socio-historical processes of governance and control. It examines the discursive convergences and conflicts between practices of consumption and notions of addiction, which it notes are consistently represented in terms of the oppositional categories of self-control vs. compulsion and freedom vs. determinism. These interrelations are explored with reference to the development of notions of addiction, and their relation to shifting configurations of identity, subjectivity and governance. Finally, it suggests that the notion of ‘addiction’ has particular valence in advanced liberal societies, where an unprecedented emphasis on the values of freedom, autonomy and choice not only encourage the conditions for its proliferation into ever wider areas of social life, but also reveal deep tensions within the ideology of consumerism itself.
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- 2004
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23. Renovating the Landscape and Packaging the Penguin: Culture and Nature on Summerland Peninsula, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
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Head, L.M.
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LANDSCAPES ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Changes in settler impacts on Summerland Peninsula, Phillip Island are examined, with an emphasis on the recent program of environmental restoration associated with the Penguin Parade, one of Victoria's largest tourist attractions. Management strategies construct nature around an ideal of human absence, expressed in, for example, removal of residents and residential buildings; representations of the Aboriginal presence as both prehistoric and part of nature; and formalised rather than experiential environmental education. Paradoxically this encourages intensified tourism and its associated impacts, such that the economics of environmental preservation are dependent on its commodification. This paper draws on two traditions of cultural geography, with components undertaken more than 20 years apart. I argue that a combination of Sauerian and deconstructive approaches can be productively applied to many current environmental issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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24. Social Scientists' Contributions to Environmental Management.
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Freudenburg, William R.
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ENVIRONMENTAL management ,ECOLOGICAL engineering ,CIVILIZATION ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
To understand the role of social science in environmental management, we must explore the institutional settings within which such contributions take place. In the United States, much of this work is done in the context of environmental and social impact assessments, and is shaped by the legal requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969. The issues of technological risk and waste management are likely to provide increasingly important contexts for social science input in the future. This article discusses the concepts of "socioeconomic impact assessment," and of managing and "mitigating" impacts. it then examines the role actually played by social and behavioral scientists in the NEPA context—a role that has been quite paradoxical. Drawing from waste management experiences, the closing sections of the paper provide a brief analysis of some of the reasons behind this paradox and discuss implications for future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1989
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25. Meta-Power, Social Organization and the Shaping of Social Action.
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Hall, Peter M.
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SOCIAL action ,SOCIAL interaction ,SOCIAL structure ,SOCIAL history ,SPACETIME ,METAPHYSICS ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,CULTURE - Abstract
Interactionist analyses of social organization stimulate examination of how social situations and collective activity are shaped. Meta-power, the creation and control of distal situations, and organization as a structuration of meta-power are used as tools for exploring the shaping of situations Five meta-power processes are presented: strategic agency, rules and conventions, structuring situations. Culture construction, and empowering delegates. These processes illustrate how situations are created or altered. This paper offers a view of social organization that emphasizes relations among situations, linkages between consequences and conditions, and networks of collective activity across space and time. The conclusion calls for additional research to make more explicit the nature of social organization and its social conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1997
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26. Totem poles and tricycle races: the certainties and uncertainties of Native village life, Coastal Alaska 1878-1930.
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Dombrowski, Kirk
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ETHNIC groups ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,CULTURE - Abstract
Anthropological and ethnohistorical accounts of the Northwest Coast and Southeast Alaska have underemphasized the early and thorough industrialization of the area. This paper describes the transformation of Native fan. lies and community forms by small scale salmon-canning firms m the late 19th and early 20th century, beginning with the building of the first salmon cannery in Klawock, Alaska, in 1878. Attention to the unmaking of past forms of obligation and expectation leads to an understanding of the volatility of specifically local histories in Native villages. Totem poles and tricycle races are both locations of ambiguous cultural production that are tied to these histories in overlapping and complex ways, and as such, they serve as metaphors for the larger processes at work in these towns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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27. Socio-cultural aspects of prompting student reflection in Web-based inquiry learning environments.
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Furberg, A.
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SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *CULTURE , *STUDENTS , *LEARNING , *EDUCATION - Abstract
This paper reports on a qualitative study of students' engagement with a Web-based inquiry environment aimed at prompting student reflection in processes of scientific inquiry. In order to demonstrate how prompts become structuring resources for students' scientific inquiry, detailed analyses of students' interaction processes are conducted. The students' written responses to the reflection prompts indicated a widespread use of a ‘copy and paste’ strategy. The analyses of student interaction deepen this finding and show that instead of participating in reflection activities, the students make use of these ‘copy and paste’ strategies in order to come up with ‘correct’ answers to the prompts. Further, the analyses indicate that the students' employment of these strategies can be seen as a response to what can be termed the institutional practices of schooling embedded within the design of the prompts. These findings are discussed and explored in accordance with findings from previous studies on prompting students' reflection in Web-based inquiry environments. The study demonstrates the value of a socio-cultural perspective for gaining a deeper understanding of students' engagement with Web-based learning environments. Such a perspective can give valuable insight into how to (re)design prompts, and how prompts can be productive parts of students' learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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28. What's Done Here--Explaining Behavior in Terms of Customs and Norms.
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Jones, Todd
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CULTURE , *SOCIAL sciences , *MANNERS & customs , *BEHAVIORISM (Psychology) , *INTERPERSONAL communication , *HUMAN beings - Abstract
Terms like "norm," "custom," "convention," "tradition," and "culture" are used throughout social science, and throughout everyday conversation to describe certain types of behaviors. Yet it is not very clear what people mean by them. In this paper, I try to make clearer what is meant by these terms and what makes the behavior they describe possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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29. Culture and social policy: a developing field of study.
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van Oorschot, Wim
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SOCIAL policy ,PUBLIC welfare ,CULTURE ,CULTURAL relativism ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
This article takes the increased interest in the relation between culture and social policy as a starting point, and discusses how this increasing attention can be understood as the result of contextual factors such as economic, social and academic trends. It discusses these matters and at the same time reviews briefly some of the main findings of studies that contain a cultural perspective in analysing social policy. A second issue concerns the specific character of cultural perspectives in such analyses. Thus far, most studies in the field have been guided by a notion of culture as consisting of the values, norms and beliefs of welfare state actors. Recently, this notion has been questioned by advocates of the so-called ‘cultural turn’, who suggest that a radical change in the cultural analysis of social policy is required. The article concludes with a discussion of their claims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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30. The Strange Respectability of the Situationist City in the Society of the Spectacle.
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Swyngedouw, Erik
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URBAN life ,CITY dwellers ,CULTURE ,CAPITALISM ,COALITIONS ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The article focuses on the strange respectability of the Situationist City. The paper engages with the present reinvention of the Situationist Movement and argues that the rediscovery of the "Situationist City" celebrates an intellectualized, aestheticized and depoliticized version that is particularly oblivious to the political and revolutionary theories and programmatic emancipatory urban agenda that underpinned the Situationist Movement. The Situationist city has indeed become strangely respectable. It has become part of the commercialized cultural trail and spectacularized capitalist that economist Guy Debord dissected. For Debord, the pivot of capitalist economy and culture is a commodity. Central to the Debord's politics is a condemnation of contemplation and of non participation which, for him entail not only total abduction but are central to the perpetuation of the spectacle. Examples of the spectacular recapture and revalorization of urban space as a part of a political strategy of social transformation are the successive occupations of the central streets of the cities like Seattle, London etc. by an eclectic coalition of anti-capitalist activists.
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- 2002
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31. The professionalization of Carl G. Jung's analytical psychology clubs.
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Samuels, Andrew
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JUNGIAN psychology , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SOCIETIES , *SOCIAL sciences , *CULTURE - Abstract
This paper addresses (1) the history of a cluster of unusual institutions — analytical psychology clubs — which started in 1961 and by 1934 had become established in many of the countries in the world in which there was interest in the analytical psychology of Carl G. Jung; (2) the conflicts involved in trying to unite the relatively informal earlier ‘Jung Clubs’ with the more formal societies being established by the increasing numbers of professionally trained analysts; and (3) the wider cultural and social issues included in the professionalization of analytical psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1994
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32. NEWS AND NOTES.
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DEMOGRAPHY ,PSYCHOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,CULTURE ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,RESEARCH - Abstract
Presents several issues related to behavioral sciences. Request the applications for postdoctoral research fellowships; Emphasis on the methodological problems in historical demography, anthropology, and other disciplines; Accounts on the philosophies of technology in different cultural and social contexts; Features of the "Realism and the Human Sciences 1991 Conference."
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- 1991
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33. Not whether but how: a comment on Nettle's ‘Beyond nature versus culture’.
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Runciman, W.G.
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EVOLUTIONARY psychology , *ETHNOLOGY , *ECOLOGISTS , *CULTURE , *SOCIAL sciences , *LIFE sciences - Abstract
The author comments on David Nettle's paper "Beyond Nature Versus Culture." The author talks about how evolutionary psychology and dual-inheritance theory can be put to use in the explanation of the data in the ethnographic record. The author cites a dispute between behavioural ecologists and memeticists about how far adaptive cultural mutations can be biologically maladaptive, and vice versa. The author states that social selection need to be addressed as part of the collaboration between the social and biological sciences that Nettle recommends.
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34. Social Informatics Research: Schools of Thought, Methodological Basis, and Thematic Conceptualization.
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Smutny, Zdenek and Vehovar, Vasja
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COMPUTER science ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,CULTURE ,INFORMATION science ,RESEARCH ,SOCIAL case work ,SOCIAL change ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Research activities related to social informatics (SI) are expanding, even as community fragmentation, topical dispersion, and methodological diversity continue to increase. Specifically, the different understandings of SI in regional communities have strong impacts, and each has a different history, methodological grounding, and often a different thematic focus. The aim of this article is to connect three selected perspectives on SI—intellectual (regional schools of thought), methodological, and thematic—and introduce a comparative framework for understanding SI that includes all known approaches. Thus, the article draws from a thematic and methodological grounding of research across schools of thought, along with definitions that rely on the extension and intension of the notion of SI. The article is built on a paralogy of views and pluralism typical of postmodern science. Because SI is forced to continually reform its research focus, due to the rapid development of information and communication technology, social changes and ideologies that surround computerization and informatization, the presented perspective maintains a high degree of flexibility, without the need to constantly redefine the boundaries, as is typical in modern science. This approach may support further developments in promoting and understanding SI worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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35. Parental values in the UK.
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Baker, William and Barg, Katherin
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SOCIAL groups ,FAMILIES ,SOCIAL sciences ,RELIGIOUSNESS ,PARENTING ,EDUCATIONAL equalization - Abstract
This article investigates the extent to which parental values differ between social groups in the UK at the start of the twenty‐first century. The study of parental values is an important area of sociological enquiry that can inform scholarship from across the social sciences concerned with educational inequality and cultural variability in family life. We draw on data from the Millennium Cohort Study to show how parent's social class, religion, religiosity, race and ethnicity, and education are related to the qualities they would like their children to have. Our rank‐ordered regression models show that parents in service class occupations place significantly more importance on 'thinking for self' than 'obey parents' compared to those in routine manual occupations. We also show that although class matters, the relationship between education and parental values is particularly strong. Parenting values also differ by parental racial and ethnic background and by levels of religiosity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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36. Cultures, Identities, and Dress: A Renewed Sociological Interest.
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Miller, Kimberly A. and Hunt, Scott A.
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SOCIAL sciences , *ETHNOLOGY , *SOCIOLOGY , *CULTURE , *PSYCHOLOGY , *CLOTHING & dress , *SOCIAL groups - Abstract
The article presents information on culture identity and dress. The sociology of dress is a vibrant field, exploring intriguing theoretical, methodological, and empirical domains. During the mid-twentieth century, clothing scholars began investigating the sociological and psychological implications of dress and appearance. In 1989, a group met to discuss the direction of the analysis of dress. The published papers from that meeting considered a wide range of topics, including identity, social psychology, cultural anthropology and sociology, semiotics, affect and cognition, social construction of gender, literary analysis, as well as qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Recent textbooks in the area continue to thaw from sociology and other fields to refine theories of dress and human behavior. Related to the misperception that dress only applies to the psychology of the self is the notion that dress is trivial both substantively and theoretically. Perhaps sociologists' neglect of dress might also be linked to a misperception that it is nonrational behavior similar to other actions that do not lend themselves to systematic analysis. Again these articles provide a contrasting view. In organizational and institutional settings, such as greedy organizations, total institutions, and mass media, dress and all it symbolizes are debated and discussed in ways that can be studied scientifically. Further, all of the articles have identified patterns in how dress is used in identity embracing and distancing that can be incorporated into broader theoretical frameworks.
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37. Epistemology, culture, justice and power: non-bioscientific knowledge for medical training.
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Kuper, Ayelet, Veinot, Paula, Leavitt, Jennifer, Levitt, Sarah, Li, Amanda, Goguen, Jeannette, Schreiber, Martin, Richardson, Lisa, and Whitehead, Cynthia R.
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MEDICAL school curriculum ,PHYSICIAN training ,CURRICULUM frameworks ,YOUNG adults ,ADULTS ,HIGHER education ,PROFESSIONAL education ,SOCIAL sciences ,HUMANITIES ,POWER (Social sciences) ,CULTURE ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,INTELLECT ,INTERVIEWING ,MATHEMATICAL models ,RESEARCH methodology ,STUDY & teaching of medicine ,STATISTICAL sampling ,SOCIAL justice ,QUALITATIVE research ,THEORY ,JUDGMENT sampling ,THEMATIC analysis ,COLLEGE teacher attitudes ,SELF-consciousness (Awareness) - Abstract
Context While medical curricula were traditionally almost entirely comprised of bioscientific knowledge, widely accepted competency frameworks now make clear that physicians must be competent in far more than biomedical knowledge and technical skills. For example, of the influential CanMEDS roles, six are conceptually based in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). Educators frequently express uncertainty about what to teach in this area. This study concretely identifies the knowledge beyond bioscience needed to support the training of physicians competent in the six non-Medical Expert CanMEDS roles. Methods We interviewed 58 non-clinician university faculty members with doctorates in over 20 SSH disciplines. We abstracted our transcripts (meaning condensation, direct quotations) resulting in approximately 300 pages of data which we coded using top-down (by CanMEDS role) and bottom-up (thematically) approaches and analysed within a critical constructivist framework. Participants and clinicians with SSH PhDs member-checked and refined our results. Results Twelve interrelated themes were evident in the data. An understanding of epistemology, including the constructed nature of social knowledge, was seen as the foundational theme without which the others could not be taught or understood. Our findings highlighted three anchoring themes ( Justice, Power, Culture), all of which link to eight more specific themes concerning future physicians' relationships to the world and the self. All 12 themes were cross-cutting, in that each related to all six non-Medical Expert CanMEDS roles. The data also provided many concrete examples of potential curricular content. Conclusions There is a definable body of SSH knowledge that forms the academic underpinning for important physician competencies and is outside the experience of most medical educators. Curricular change incorporating such content is necessary if we are to strengthen the non-Medical Expert physician competencies. Our findings, particularly our cross-cutting themes, also provide a pedagogically useful mechanism for holistically teaching the underpinnings of physician competence. We are now implementing our findings into medical curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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38. MULTILAYERED SOCIOCULTURAL PHENOMENA: ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING AND ECONOMIC STATUS.
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Shintaro, Fukushima
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SOCIOCULTURAL factors ,SUBJECTIVE well-being (Psychology) ,ECONOMIC status ,SOCIAL sciences ,JAPANESE social conditions ,HUMANITIES ,HEISEI Period, Japan, 1989-2019 - Abstract
In this article, incoherent results of the associations between subjective well-being and economic status at multiple social levels are shown. Although individual-level positive associations are shown within developed countries, national-level associations disappear among developed countries. Group/area-level associations, meanwhile, do exist within Japanese societies. From these inconsistent phenomena, a sociocultural unit is proposed, within which well-being of people is collectively shared based on mutual reciprocity. The simple addition of social scientific results themselves cannot reconstruct the whole range of phenomena. Humanities could be considered as the glue, which adds sociocultural meanings to the generalized scientific results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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39. (De)colonizing Culture in Community Psychology: Reflections from Critical Social Science.
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Reyes Cruz, Mariolga and Sonn, Christopher C.
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COMMUNITY psychology ,CRITICAL theory ,ETHNOLOGY ,DECOLONIZATION ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Since its inception, community psychology has been interested in cultural matters relating to issues of diversity and marginalization. However, the field has tended to understand culture as static social markers or as the background for understanding group differences. In this article the authors contend that culture is inseparable from who we are and what we do as social beings. Moreover, culture is continually shaped by socio-historical and political processes intertwined within the globalized history of power. The authors propose a decolonizing standpoint grounded in critical social science to disrupt understandings of cultural matters that marginalize others. This standpoint would move the field toward deeper critical thinking, reflexivity and emancipatory action. The authors present their work to illustrate how they integrate a decolonizing standpoint to community psychology research and teaching. They conclude that community psychology must aim towards intercultural work engaging its political nature from a place of ontological/epistemological/methodological parity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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40. Latinos beyond the Binary.
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Alcoff, Linda Martín
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LIBERALISM ,HISPANIC Americans ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The article discusses the picture that Latinos in the U.S. are being represented. It provides details on the binary of threat that exists not only in the Anglo cultural imaginary but on the policies and practices of the neoliberal state as well. It relates that such threat is a product of rapid cultural shifts and the growth towards social progress.
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- 2009
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41. 1 Gender, Households, and Society: An Introduction.
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Brumfiel, Elizabeth M. and Robin, Cynthia
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GENDER , *HOUSEHOLDS , *ARCHAEOLOGY , *CULTURE , *SOCIETIES , *ETHNOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
A critical strength of the discipline of archaeology is that its access to the material record of human history extends well beyond the written record and includes societies and cultures unaffected by Western colonialism and capitalist penetration. Bringing to light the social relations of earlier time periods, archaeology plays a critical role in documenting the full range of human variation, a role that cannot be filled by ethnography, history, or ethnohistory with their shorter temporal spans. By questioning essentialist notions of binary gender systems, gender research in archaeology can lead to a reevaluation of long-standing disciplinary assumptions about the nature of household organization, subsistence and craft production, ritual performance, and the structure of ancient states. The materiality of gender relations and gender identities in the archaeological record allows archaeologists to conduct historical comparisons of ancient, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic time periods to document changes as well as continuities in human social conditions. In so doing, archaeologists are able to expose ancient social scenarios that are distinctive from contemporary arrangements and thus widen the scope of the social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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42. Anthropology of anthropology?
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SANGREN, P. STEVEN
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SOCIAL sciences ,ANTHROPOLOGICAL education ,REFLEXIVITY ,INSIGHT ,THEORY of knowledge ,HUMAN behavior ,CULTURE ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL institutions - Abstract
The article focuses on anthropological reflexivity, which means applying anthropology's methods and insights to the study of anthropology. It states that anthropological reflexivity addresses the areas associated with the production of anthropological knowledge. To study about anthropology, it is important to have expertise in analyzing and comprehending other cultures since it deals with the study of human nature and human realities affected by cultural and social circumstances. It added that anthropological reflexivity is to understand and justify the position of anthropology in the institutional context.
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- 2007
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43. A European in Asia.
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Hofstede, Geert
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SOCIAL sciences ,EUROPEANS ,ETHNIC groups ,SOCIAL psychology - Abstract
How culture-proof are the social sciences? Travelling in another continent, one meets culture's influences not only in the objects of social science research, but at least as much in the minds of the researchers. Researchers' problem definitions and choices of issues to be addressed and questions to be asked limit what they will find; they are a potential source of ethnocentric bias. A case example of the discovery of such a bias was the emergence of a fifth dimension of national cultures supplementing Hofstede's four, through Bond's Chinese Value Survey. In the area of personality research, a number of newer and older findings by Asian and European researchers suggest the need for expanding the ‘Big Five’ model of personality traits with a sixth factor, Dependence on Others, in order to make the model culturally universal. In general, researchers recognize primarily those aspects of culture for which their own culture differs most from others. For escaping from the cultural constraints in our own research we therefore need to trade ideas with colleagues from other parts of the world. In this respect, Asian researchers have an important role to play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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44. A creolising South Africa? Mixing, hybridity, and creolisation: (re)imagining the South African experience.
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Martin, Denis-Constant
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CULTURAL fusion ,CULTURAL relations ,CULTURE ,ETHNICITY ,RACISM ,SEGREGATION ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The present state of South Africa's society is the outcome of protracted processes of contacts and mixing, in the course of which people coming from different cultural areas blended and produced an original culture. More than three centuries of racism and apartheid have bequeathed representations in which South Africa is construed as an addition of different people, each with its own culture and language. Such representations do not take into account the interactions between them that produced what is today a mix that is impossible to disentangle. This article attempts to look at theories of métissage and creolisation that have been devised to analyse societies in South America and the West Indies and check whether they could contribute to producing a better understanding of the history of South Africa. Édouard Glissant's theories of métissage and creolisation, because they stress processes and relations, because they consider that creolisation is a continuous process, could be relevant to South Africa. However, the example of Brazil shows that re-imagining the past does not suffice to pacify memories of violence and segregation; it remains ineffective if it is not accompanied by economic and social policies aiming at redressing the inequalities inherited from this very past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. Two cultures and tragedy of the commons.
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Lovett, Jon C., Quinn, Claire H., Ockwell, David G., and Gregorowski, Robbie
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INTELLECTUAL life ,LAND management ,INTELLECTUALS ,SCIENTISTS ,POLICY sciences ,PUBLIC lands ,SOCIAL sciences ,CULTURE - Abstract
The article comments on two groups comprising the intellectual life of the whole western society, namely, literary intellectuals and scientists, using the case of land management in Africa. Criticisms of the research agenda incurred by the British Department for International Development are described. Land tenure reforms underway in African are examined. The importance for African ecologists to be interdisciplinary is underscored. Ways to avoid policy pitfalls associated with the two cultures divide are discussed.
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46. Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence Through the Use of Portfolios.
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Coleman, Hardin L. K., Morris, Dianne, and Norton, Romana A.
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COUNSELING ,APPLIED psychology ,CULTURE ,PSYCHOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,MULTICULTURALISM ,SOCIAL policy ,EMPLOYEE training ,OCCUPATIONAL training - Abstract
Copyright of Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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47. Engaging, Colonial Nostalgia.
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Bissell, William Cunningham
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NOSTALGIA ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,COLONIZATION ,CULTURE ,ETHNOLOGY ,COLONIES - Abstract
Focuses on colonial nostalgia as a distinctively anthropological problem. Attempt to sketch some of colonial nostalgia's crucial dimensions as a social phenomenon to suggests how people might more productively engage with it in ethnographic terms; Nostalgia in both popular and academic contexts; Argument that nostalgia is shaped by specific cultural concerns and struggles and that it can only be understood in particular historical and spatial contexts.
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- 2005
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48. Asset and Liability? The Importance of Context in the Occupational Experiences of Upwardly Mobile White Adults.
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Stuber, Jenny
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OCCUPATIONAL mobility ,SOCIAL mobility ,SOCIOLOGY ,WORK environment ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
In-depth interview data reveal that workplace context and the social characteristics of clients and coworkers play an important role in shaping how upwardly mobile individuals experience class at work. While respondents did discuss their working-class backgrounds as a liability, as might be expected, they also described ways in which they experience their backgrounds as an occupational asset. These findings challenge the notion of a linear relationship between class and culture, suggesting instead a complex, fluid relationship between class, culture, and occupation, where the “class” of a job does not necessarily determine the class culture needed for that job. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. Culture, essentialism, and agency: are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups?
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Kashima, Yoshihisa, Kashima, Emiko, Chiu, Chi-Yue, Farsides, Thomas, Gelfand, Michele, Hong, Ying-Yi, Kim, Uichol, Strack, Fritz, Werth, Lioba, Yuki, Masaki, and Yzerbyt, Vincent
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SOCIAL groups ,CULTURE ,INDIVIDUALISM ,COLLECTIVISM (Social psychology) ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Are human individuals universally seen to be more real entities (or more entitative, to use Campbell's, 1958, term) than social groups? Although the individual may be seen to be more entitative than social groups in the West, it is unclear whether this is the case in other cultures, especially in East Asia. Two aspects of perceived entitativity are distinguished: psychological essentialism (belief in the presence of essence-like unchangeable properties) and agency (perception that a social entity is an agent), and examined for four social targets (individual, family, friendship group, and society) in three English-speaking cultures (Australia, UK, and USA), three East Asian cultures (Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea), and two continental European cultures (Belgium and Germany). In all cultures, the individual person was seen to possess essence-like unchangeable characteristics more than social groups (i.e. essentialized). As for agency, the individual person was seen to be more agentic than groups in Western cultures, but both individuals and groups were conferred an equal level of agency in East Asia. Individuals may be universally more essentialized than friendship groups and societies, but not always seen to be more agentic, than social groups. Implications of the results for conceptions of individualism and collectivism are discussed. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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50. Defining, Measuring, and Comparing Organisational Cultures.
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Van Den Berg, Peter T. and Wilderom, Celeste P.M.
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CULTURE ,HISTORICAL sociology ,COMMUNITIES ,SOCIOLOGY ,APPLIED psychology ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Copyright of Applied Psychology: An International Review is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2004
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