Subjective Meaning and Culture
Subjective Meaning and Culture

Author: Lorand B. Szalay

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-01

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1040025528

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Originally published in 1978, Subjective Meaning and Culture presents a framework and a method for the comparative study of the perceptions, attitudes, and cultural frames of reference shared by groups of people. The framework is the notion of subjective meaning, and the method is that of word associations. The authors present a detailed account of some particular cross-cultural and intergroup comparisons using the word-association technique described in this volume. However, rather than emphasize comparisons they focus on the technique itself as a method in the investigation of subjective meaning and with it subjective culture. Their purpose was to introduce a research capability which offered new kinds of information and made critical aspects of subjective meaning accessible to empirical investigation. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Explaining Culture
Explaining Culture

Author: Loren Demerath

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0739175424

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This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness.

Cross-Cultural Analysis
Cross-Cultural Analysis

Author: Michael Minkov

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1412992281

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The first comprehensive and statistically significant analysis of the predictive powers of each cross-cultural model, based on nation-level variables from a range of large-scale database sources such as the World Values Survey, the Pew Research Center, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the UN Statistics Division, UNDP, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, TIMSS, OECD PISA. Tables with scores for all culture-level dimensions in all major cross-cultural analyses (involving 20 countries or more) that have been published so far in academic journals or books. The book will be an invaluable resource to masters and PhD students taking advanced courses in cross-cultural research and analysis in Management, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and related programs. It will also be a must-have reference for academics studying cross-cultural dimensions and differences across the social and behavioral sciences.

Meaning in Culture
Meaning in Culture

Author: F. Allan Hanson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780415330312

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Meaning in Culture discusses the question of whether 'culture' refers to some superorganic entity that exists in its own right, or is only convenient short-hand for the shared beliefs and behaviour of human individuals. It also investigates the problem of relativism and explores the question of whether anthropology and the other social sciences are really scientific. First published in 1975.

Simmel on Culture
Simmel on Culture

Author: Georg Simmel

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780803986527

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This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Georg Simmel's dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with his basic essays on defining culture, its changes and its crisis. These are followed by more specific explorations of culture.

Handbook of Intercultural Training
Handbook of Intercultural Training

Author: Dan Landis, Janet Bennett

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780761923329

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This handbook deals with the question of how people can best live and work with others who come from very different cultural backgrounds. Handbook of Intercultural Training provides an overview of current trends and issues in the field of intercultural training. Contributors represent a wide range of disciplines including psychology, interpersonal communication, human resource management, international management, anthropology, social work, and education. Twenty-four chapters, all new to this edition, cover an array of topics including training for specific contexts, instrumentation and methods, and training design.

The Meaning of Culture
The Meaning of Culture

Author: Kenneth Allan

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1998-08-20

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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In review of the major theoretical approaches to culture, the author argues that the structure of culture has been overemphasized and affect-meaning neglected. This approach to studying culture has as its basis, the social construction of meaning and reality, and emphasizes micro-level processes.

Matters of Culture
Matters of Culture

Author: Roger Friedland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-07-22

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780521795456

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American sociology is in the midst of a cultural turn. Where sociologists once spurned culture, today they embrace and explore it, seeking to understand the construction of social forms and the way culture matters. Problems of meaning, discourse, aesthetics, value, textuality, form and narrativity, topics traditionally within the humanists' purview, have come to the fore as sociologists increasingly emphasize the role of meanings, symbols, cultural frames and cognitive schema in their theorizations of social process and institution. Matters of Culture, first published in 2004, is an introduction to some of the best theorizing in cultural sociology, focusing in particular on questions of power, the sacred and cultural production. With a major theoretical introduction that lays out the internal structure of the field and its relation to cultural studies and contributions from leading academics Matters of Culture offers students and professors alike a representative range of the types of cultural sociological analysis available.

Understanding Culture
Understanding Culture

Author: Robert S. Wyer

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 1136642900

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This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research. This breadth is reflected in the diversity of the topics covered in the volume, which include theoretical approaches to cross-cultural research, the dimensions of national cultures and their measurement, ecological and economic foundations of culture, cognitive, perceptual and emotional manifestations of culture, and bicultural and intercultural processes. In addition to the individual chapters, the volume contains a dialog among 14 experts in the field on a number of issues of concern in cross-cultural research, including the relation of psychological studies of culture to national development and national policies, the relationship between macro structures of a society and shared cognitions, the integration of structural and process models into a coherent theory of culture, how personal experiences and cultural traditions give rise to intra-cultural variation, whether culture can be validly measured by self-reports, the new challenges that confront cultural psychology, and whether psychology should strive to eliminate culture as an explanatory variable.