Old Cultures New Institutions

Author : Ann Kennard
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364310751X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Cultures, New Institutions written by Ann Kennard and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Border regions around the new eastern and south-eastern edges of the European Union have seen the re-emergence of previous cultures and ethnicities. This has caused a reappraisal of people's relationship with history. Border-related institutions established at international, regional and local levels have endeavoured to make the border regions places of cultural encounter, providing a new way forward for future generations through new kinds of cooperation.

Author : Jean-Philippe Platteau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136912096
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Institutions, and Development written by Jean-Philippe Platteau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx, which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and values affect economic growth is of critical importance, particularly because of its policy implications. Indeed, if culture is not an autonomous factor susceptible to influencing economic realities, it should not matter and public authorities can dispense with thinking about cultural interventions. On the other hand, if culture does have a real impact, the question arises as to whether it is conducive or detrimental to economic growth, political liberalization, and the emancipation of individuals among other things. Culture, Institutions, and Development addresses this debate at a concrete level by looking at five important issues: the role of tradition and its influence on development; the role of religion, with special reference to Middle Eastern countries; the role of family, kinship, and ethnic ties in the process of development; the relationship between culture and entrepreneurship; and the relationship between culture and poverty. This collection offers a nuanced view that neither denies nor exaggerates the role of cultural factors in explaining relative growth performances across countries. Instead, the contributors focus on the dynamic, two-way relationship between culture and development in a way that stresses policy stakes and the value of multidisciplinary collaboration between economists, historians and other social scientists. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers in all the social sciences, as well as to professionals working in national development agencies, international organisations, and Non-Governmental Organisations.

Author : Carey McIntosh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004430636
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics and Cultural Change in the British Enlightenment: New Words and Old written by Carey McIntosh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of English semantics during the Enlightenment. New words 1650–1800 reflect the new middle-class culture of sociability, commerce, and science. Old mostly obsolete words illuminate the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, outrageous sexism, magic, horses, bizarre food.

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Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 950 pages
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Download or read book Current History and Modern Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book The College Courant written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bin Xu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509544003
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Democracy written by Bin Xu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people’s belief that they should and can solve such issues and build a better society. Their imagination of a good society, their understanding of their engagement, and the ways they choose to act constitute the cultural aspect of civil society. Central to this cultural aspect of civil society is the “culture of democracy,” including normative values, individual interpretations, and interaction norms pertaining to features of a democratic society, such as civility, independence, and solidarity. The culture of democracy varies in different contexts and faces challenges, but it shapes civic actions, alters political and social processes, and thus is the soul of modern civil societies. The Culture of Democracy provides the first systematic survey of the cultural sociology of civil society and offers a committed global perspective. It shows that, as everyone is eager to have their voice heard, cultural sociology can serve as an “art of listening,” a thoroughly empirical approach that takes ideas, meanings, and opinions seriously, for people to contemplate significant theoretical and public issues.

Author : Stefan Berger
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030038041
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marxist Historical Cultures and Social Movements during the Cold War written by Stefan Berger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between diverse social movements and Marxist historical cultures during the second half of the twentieth century in Western Europe, with special emphasis on the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy. During the Cold War, Marxist ideas and understandings of history informed not only the traditional Communist Parties in Western Europe, but also influenced a range of new social movements that emerged in the 1970s in the wake of the 1968 student rebellions. The generation of 1968 was strongly influenced by neo-Marxist ideas that they subsequently carried into the new social movements. The volume asks how Marxist historical cultures influenced third world movements, anti-fascist movements, the peace movement and a whole host of other new social movements that signaled a new vibrancy of civil society in Western Europe from the 1970s onwards.

Author : Thomas Aidan Cockburn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316342409
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures written by Thomas Aidan Cockburn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To look upon a mummy is to come face to face with our past. This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved as with the ancient Egyptians using a variety of complex techniques, others accidentally by dry baking heat, intense cold and ice, or by tanning in peat bogs. By examining these preserved humans, we can get profound insights into the lives, health, culture and deaths of individuals and populations long gone. The first edition of this book was acclaimed as a classic. This readable new edition builds on these foundations, investigating the fantastic new findings in South America, Europe and the Far East. It will be a 'must-have' volume for anyone working in paleopathology and a fascinating read for all those interested in anthropology, archaeology, and the history of medicine.

Author : Orbis (Firm : Prague, Czech Republic)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Czechoslovakia, Old Culture and New Life written by Orbis (Firm : Prague, Czech Republic) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: