Culture And Difference

Author : Sam Goldstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038777579X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development written by Sam Goldstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work breaks new ground as an electronic resource. Utterly comprehensive, it serves as a repository of knowledge in the field as well as a frequently updated conduit of new material long before it finds its way into standard textbooks.

Author : Pauline Uchmanowicz
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780321115812
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Considering Cultural Difference written by Pauline Uchmanowicz and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the "Longman Topics" reader series, Considering Cultural Difference features multiethnic writing from contemporary U.S. authors centered around issues of ritual, representation, and rights. This brief collection of readings examines cultural identity and difference with respect to race, class, gender, and nationality. Thought-provoking selections ask students to think about timely and relevant issues: integration in schools; affirmative action in the workplace, women in sports; living in a multilingual society. Three main sites of cultural difference are addressed: Ritual, Representation, and Rights, each divided into two chapters of five or six essays apiece. Brief apparatus helps students write more thoughtfully in response to the selections. "Longman Topics" are brief, attractive readers on a single complex, but compelling, topic. Featuring about 30 full-length selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.

Author : Natalie Alvarez
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053752
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immersions in Cultural Difference written by Natalie Alvarez and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How immersive simulations--from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp--attempt to foster understanding across cultures

Author : Kamala Visweswaran
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391635
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Un/common Cultures written by Kamala Visweswaran and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism—the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive—produces a view of “uncommon cultures” defined by relations of conflict rather than forms of collaboration. The essays in Un/common Cultures straddle the line between an analysis of how racism works to form the idea of “uncommon cultures” and a reaffirmation of the possibilities of “common cultures,” those that enact new forms of solidarity in seeking common cause. Such “cultures in common” or “cultures of the common” also produce new intellectual formations that demand different analytic frames for understanding their emergence. By tracking the emergence and circulation of the culture concept in American anthropology and Indian and French sociology, Visweswaran offers an alternative to strictly disciplinary histories. She uses critical race theory to locate the intersection between ethnic/diaspora studies and area studies as a generative site for addressing the formation of culturalist discourses. In so doing, she interprets the work of social scientists and intellectuals such as Elsie Clews Parsons, Alice Fletcher, Franz Boas, Louis Dumont, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, W. E. B. Du Bois, and B. R. Ambedkar.

Author : Thomas P. Kasulis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824825591
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimacy or Integrity written by Thomas P. Kasulis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-03-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can I know something? How can I convince someone of the rightness of my position? How does reality function? What is artistic creativity? What is the role of the state? It is well known that people from various cultures give dissimilar answers to such philosophical questions. After three decades in the cross-cultural study of ideas and values, Thomas Kasulis found that culture influences not only the answers to these questions, but often how one arrives at the answers. In generalizing cultural difference, Kasulis identifies two kinds of orientation: intimacy and integrity. Both determine how we think about relations among people and among things, and each is reasonable, effective, and consistent. Yet the two are so incompatible in their basic assumptions that they cannot successfully engage each other. Cultural difference extends beyond nations. Cultural identities crystallize in relation to religion, occupation, race, gender, class. Rather than attempt to transcend cultural difference, Kasulis urges a deeper awareness of its roots by moving beyond mere cultural relativism toward a cultural bi-orientationality that will allow us to adapt ourselves to different cultural contexts as the situation demands. Wonderfully clear and unburdened by jargon, Intimacy or Integrity is accessible to readers from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds. By analyzing the synergy between thought and culture, it increases our understanding of cultural difference and guides us in developing strategies for dealing with orientations different from our own.

Author : Winfried Siemerling
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587292224
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Difference & the Literary Text written by Winfried Siemerling and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erin Meyer
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610396715
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture Map (INTL ED) written by Erin Meyer and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.

Author : Antonia Darder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031339007X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Difference written by Antonia Darder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-12-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant policies and practices of advanced capitalism and postmodern culture. Darder's introduction sets the tone by describing the formation of Warriors for Gringostroika and The New Mestizas. In the words of Anzaldua, those who cross over, pass over . . . the confines of the `normal.' Critical essays follow by Mexicanas, poets, activists, and educators of all colors and persuasions. The collection coming out of the good work of the Southern California University system relates to all locales and spectrums of the human condition and will no doubt inspire excellent creativity of knowing and remembering among all who chance to read any part thereof.

Author : Fredrik Barth
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478607955
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Groups and Boundaries written by Fredrik Barth and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1998-03-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in Norway, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked the transition to a new era of ethnic studies. Today this much-cited classic is regarded as the seminal volume from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries opens with Barths invaluable thirty-page essay that introduces students to important theoretical issues in the analysis of ethnic groups. Following is a collection of seven essaysthe results of a symposium involving a small group of Scandinavian social anthropologistsintended to illustrate the application of Barths analytical viewpoints to different sides of the problems of polyethnic organization in various ethnographic areas, including Norway, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Laos.

Author : Jonathan Rutherford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity written by Jonathan Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses the issues and concerns raised by the emphasis on society not as a series of homogeneous interlocking blocks, but as a plethora of different, sometimes overlapping and often conflicting communities. Reflecting, for example, on the experience of the GLC's attempt to create a new "majority of minorities" and on the clash of values and beliefs over "The Satanic Verses," these pieces explore both the opportunities and problems presented by the growing diversity of communities, cultures and identities in contemporary society. Topics covered include: consumerism and the impact of green politics; racism and psychoanalysis; ethics and values; AIDS and citizenship; and feminism and age