We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
The object of the article is the transformations of ideological and Weltanschauungs attitudes linked with the Eurocentric problem in Western philosophy. The author explicates the processes of hyperbolization of European culture and of hiperbolization of the Western scientific methodology in respect to different cultural researches. The article utilizes diverse interdisciplinary and comparativistic strategies which are applied in an analysis of complicated theoretical variations of the Eurocentric problem.
More...
This paper seeks to compare the influence of dimensions of cultural values of self-enhancement, self-transcendence, conservation, and openness to change on career goal among Gen-X and Gen-Y employees in selected Malaysian industrial companies. This study used the Social Cognitive Career Theory as its underlying theoretical framework. A total of 264 personnel from oil and gas, information, communication and technology (ICT), as well as banking and insurance companies participated in the study of whom 48 and 216 are Gen-X and Gen-Y employees, respectively. The multiple linear regression analysis found self-enhancement and conservation predicted significantly the career goal of Gen-X; while self-enhancement, self-transcendence, conservation predicted significantly the career goal of Gen-Y, with the explanatory power of the former (33%) being greater than the latter(28%). Recommendations for human resource management and future research are discussed.
More...
The task of the author of this article is to have a certain territory on the outskirts of Moscow – Sparrow Hills (Vorobyovy Gory, in the years of 1935–1991 Lenin Hills), which in terms of appearance, function, cultural and formed around the site of the mythological shell, differs significantly from the stereotypical assumptions about the totalitarian Soviet culture, also known as the Culture Two (V. Paperny). Already in the nineteenth century created some evidence to create in these hills a sanctuary of reason and civic virtue (which was to become the reincarnation of Temple of Christ the Savior). These mythic poetics have been perpetuated and reinforced by the famous oath of Alexander Herzen and Nicholas Ogarev (1827). In Soviet Russia, the Lenin Institute of Library Sciences, the visionary project by Ivan Leonidov, was planned to be built on the Lenin Hills, next to the Temples of Reason. Finally, a monumental building of Moscow State University, one of the symbols of Culture Two, was built. The space around him included numerous scientific institutions as well as Studio “Mosfilm”, the Palace of Pioneers, theater, circus, stadium and botanical garden. All this gave the hills the Leninist character of the elite. Symbolizing the ideals of the Enlightenment knowledge and progress, this heterotopy was the island of relative order, nobility and dignity in the Soviet sea of troubles, rudeness and humiliation.
More...
Suspected cancer-causing substance in Czech booze is also found in baby food and coffee.
More...
It is important today to prepare pre-service teachers to integrate social media tools into their lessons and to teach them how to use social media as a learning environment for educational context. Based on this, an undergraduate course was designed to fulfil this need. Hence, the purpose of this study is to investigate the behaviours and perceptions of 27 pre-service teachers enrolled to a 14-week social-media enriched blended course. Facebook was used to support an out-of-class teaching and learning process. During the course, students developed educational content and were informed on how to use social media as a learning environment in an educational context. After implementation, they were asked to respond to an open-ended questionnaire related to the 14-week course process and social media usage in lessons. According to the findings, preservice teachers stated that the use of social media tools, in addition to face-to-face learning, can enhance the dissemination of announcements, communication between students and instructor, the sharing of instructional activities, discussions, and the use and creation of multimedia tools and applications 24x7, by extending the limits of normal class hours. Most also stated that they would use Facebook for material and announcement sharing once they were in-service teachers. In addition to Facebook, they emphasised that they would also use Prezi, Glogster, Mind Meister and Edmodo for their lessons and that they had learnt new concepts and social media tools during the course. They also suggested increasing the number of course hours and reducing course content per course session.
More...
Our study investigates an essential problem related to university teaching, namely continuous adaptation to the labour market standards and requirements, which at the curriculum level involves a correlation between learning objectives and competency profile requested and expected in the professional world. With respect to foreign language teaching for professional purposes, this correlation implies, among other things, the integration of intercultural dimension in the contents taught in order to provide the student with necessary skills and enabling him/her able to efficiently (inter)act in today’s multicultural labour market, and finally meet the needs of contemporary world. In this context, our research firstly offers a theoretical approach to the concepts of culture and interculturel, which are envisaged as landmarks in today’s foreign language teaching philosophy and which specify, through their specific objectives to be achieved, new standards that foreign language teaching must comply with. Our study also offers a theoretical framework to the particularities of foreign language teaching for professional purposes. This enables us to reformulate the initial objectives associated to foreign language for professional purposes by integrating the objectives related to the development of intercultural competence. Finally, this study also proposes a concrete course content of medical French based on the course already delivered to the students studying medicine in Dunarea de Jos University of Galati. The course has been remodelled so as to meet the objectives of intercultural competence. In doing so, we firstly analysed the topics included in the course content with respect to aspects related to culture or intercultural communication, and afterwards we provided a list of cultural- and intercultural communicationoriented topics that could be articulated around the already proposed content of a French course for medicine. This proposal is also accompanied by a series of methodological recommendations that should be taken into consideration prior to designing a course for medical French.
More...
In the area of Barcău Upper Valley, the first social actions begin before Christmas. First of all, the place where the rehearsals will take place is searched for and established: a house, a school, another building. The learning of the carols is done early, several times a week, by the lads of village getting together. A decisive role is taken by the mentors. The preferred way of transmitting carols is by word of mouth. Buying drinks proves to be an indispensable step that can take the form of a mini-ceremony, because its quality is top priority. The musicians are hired either from the village or from other places. Often, special attention is paid to the clothing to be worn in the Christmas Eve and their characteristic ornaments.
More...
Asta Õim, Katre Õim. Lähtekohti eesti fraseoloogia käsitlemiseks. Tallinn: EKSA, 2019. 383 pp. An overview of the book by Pille Eslon.
More...
The article elaborates on the public narratives of an Estonian cultural agent that testify to its rhetorical acculturation to the moral appeal of market-resilience and market rationalism. The cultural aspect of globalization is addressed by scrutinizing media messages that introduce Baltic art audiences to the contemporary global artworld. For that purpose, a discursive study of the press releases of the Art Museum of Estonia from 2006 to 2017 has been conducted. Depictions of the global artworld as a site of cultural anomie, belligerent rivalry and permanent societal crisis have been discussed as a neoliberal cultural fantasy that fosters and encourages aspiring contemporary artists to adapt to the opportunistic, competitive and survivalist role model of the entrepreneur of the self, as argued by Michel Foucault.
More...
The utilization of the street as an alternative and independent medium for transmission of radical political ideas is a form of civil disobedience manifested thus to a certain extent in a work of propaganda and is an example of creative idealism. In this case graffiti can be regarded as a non-violent protest that was theoretically described by Henry David Thoreau in the treatise on “The Duty of Civil disobedience”, a work that has become an essential part of anthologies of political and social philosophy. To a certain degree, in its visual format, graffiti is a continuation of the “samizdat” tradition dating back to the Soviet era, both in the sense of a socially critical message and in the use of an alternative medium. Proposing a new, tactical usage of technology critically directed against technocracy of contemporary society youth of the city is trying to occupy it’s public space by specific type of aesthetization and, in the same time, is delivering clear message. The goal of this paper is the reading and interpretation of messages of the images and texts in stencil – graffiti in Riga in the context of interplay between counter cultures, different minor social groups and their ideologies. The method used is social semiotic analysis. The results show that the criticism of technocratic capitalism, consu¬merism and the oppression of life and the nature are most important issues taken up by the authors of stencils.
More...
The article conceptualizes the audience of art organization, introduces the main art organization audience’s groups and analyzes the concept of relationship marketing in the context of art organizations. Relationship marketing tools are identified as an important instrumentality in order to develop and maintain networks between interested parties (various audience groups). The art industry is perceived as a medium for the implementation of relationship marketing. The theoretical platform model that is developed by art industry organizations is revealed as a universal and widely applicable tool among the biennials of contemporary art. The analysis of academic discourse presents the key groups of relationship marketing as well as dimensions which allows to evaluate the success of maintained networks. Following the features of public sector institutions a noticeable aspect in building relationships is the pursuit of economical benefit. Despite the economical benefits, interested audience groups of art organization are seeking of social benefits. At this point, the main relationship marketing dimensions – trust, commitment, satisfaction – are considered as a valuable measurement of the created platform network that reveals quality. It is concluded that arts organizations use appropriate relationship marketing tools to identify, establish, and main¬tain long-term relationships with their audience, for which the arts organizations provide additional organizational resources related to communication. The article presents an empirical study of the marketing relations of the biennial from research conducted in 2019 about the development of the biennial of contemporary art as an art platform where relationship marketing, as well as the main art organization audience groups, were presented. Case studies of the biennials of the contemporary art biennales Kaunas Biennial and EVA International were carried out. A qualitative study was chosen in order to empirically test the functioning of the theoretical model of the biennial as an art platform in terms of relationship marketing. Research data were collected using a qualitative (structured-standardized interview) research method. Following the analysis of the scientific literature and the empirical research data, guidelines for the development of an art organizations in terms of audience development were created.
More...
This article investigates the rise of the peasantry as new readers and Lithuanian intellectuals’ reactions to this phenomenon as they took the initiative in directing the peasants’ cultivation as readers. These intellectuals were concerned with the development of the peasants and sought to form their reading habits, influence the readers’ choices as to reading material, and so on. This article goes on to analyze how Žemaitė’s status as a peasant writer was established during her early reception, and how the evaluation of her work depended on the imagined addressee. By analyzing the reviews and broader studies of Žemaitė’s published works in the Lithuanian press from 1895 to 1915, this article aims to show that the formation of the common people as a potential and especially important national reading public was an integral part of her canonization process. Yet another important aim of this research is to reveal how the reception of Žemaitė’s works brought ordinary village peasant onto the horizon of modern Lithuanian culture, and how this became the foundation of one of the new literary styles in Lithuania, namely realism. In this way, by canonizing Žemaitė’s works, the life of village folk became not only visible and recognizable to the Lithuanian reading public, but also came to be regarded as a credible topic for realistic prose.
More...
Historical re-enactments have gradually become an indispensable element of public ceremonies and rituals commemorating the late 19th century national struggles for political independence in Bulgaria. Customarily accounted for as phenomena of popular culture or as manifestations of “banal nationalism”, historical re-enactments appear still rather understudied in Bulgaria, especially in terms of their performative aspects and affective power. The paper attempts to outline a research agenda for an anthropological study of the historical re-enactments of the “heroic times”, inspired by the theoretical insights of the recent performative and affective turns in the social sciences and humanities. The lines of inquiry, outlined in this paper, focussed on the viewpoint of the re-enactors, include: personal motivation, collective cause, and emotions aroused by the experience; attitude towards the public; spectacularity, theatricality and performance; scenographic and dramaturgical aspects; authenticity and historical accuracy concerns. The analysis is based on comments in specialized online forums for historical re-enactments in Bulgaria.
More...
Cultural understanding is a basis for competence-oriented general education. Teachers are responsible for applied content and methods that are used to purposefully lead school students to that result. The aim of this study is to identify actual goals for the development of teacher education curriculum, professional development, and teaching aids by investigating in-service teachers’ challenges in the successful promotion of students’ cultural understanding in general schools. The readiness of teachers to promote the cultural understanding of primary school students was explored in a mixed-methods study. The findings indicated aspects that teachers consider relevant as well as the main problems and gaps between theoretical principles recognised as essential by educational policy, and teachers’ beliefs and practices.
More...
This study provides a critical introduction into and overview of the state of research on subcultures in both the international and Czech and Slovak contexts. At the same time, it presents a seldom-used historical source – fanzines – specific in their formation out of resistance to modern institutions, which excludes them from the scope of activity of standard archival practices. Therefore, fanzines have the potential to provide information, which may not be captured in standard sources, and thus contribute to the writing of the “history from below“. As alternative media, fanzines offer, in the first place, an insight into the opinions of their creators and reflect events within certain communities, scenes, or subcultures. But at the same time, they serve as a relevant testimony to the societal, political, and cultural life and institutions of the time.
More...
By refering to the examples of different cultural traditions, Arūnas Sverdiolas in his study Constitution and Preservation described the mechanisms that are involved in the creation of culture – constitution and preservation. The goal of this article is to show how these mechanisms operated in the reality of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The article analyzes the roles that the Lithuanian political society gave to legislation, upbringing, historical narratives, heroic and occasional poetry while constituting and preserving itself.
More...
Review of: Jaroslav Ira - Marcel Thomas, Local Lives, Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in the Divided Germany, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-19-885614-6 Pp. 320 + 31 illustrations
More...
This article discusses a particular model of socialism. Particular not in the sense of authenticity or as a sui generis case because the ideology on which it is founded is clearly expressed, but for the original forms that come to life and that are being defined through the aplication of this ideology in practice. The article is based on field study, done in kibbutz Baram in 2007, one of the few that has survived from the wave of privatization and capitalist transition. This made the kibbutz a good case study for observing the process of transformation and understanding the causes of this transformation, "photographing" at the same time, what remained of their utopia. This article describes, problematizes and discusses the socio-political and economic structure of this utopian community.
More...
The family is one of the important institutions that has survived from the past to the present. In this paper I will try to present the structure and features of the Turkish family starting from the pre-Islamic, Islamic-Ottoman period until the modern period. The solid family structure and the order played an extremely important role in the mobility of the Turkish nation in a very wide geography that shaped history. To this end, I will provide brief information about the Turkish family, its importance to society, marriage ceremonies, communication between family members and other relatives, as well as some traditions specific to the Turkish family. The social structure of the family, the basic dynamics and the main driving force of society differ from society to society, from culture to culture as we will see also in the Turkish family. The ancient Turks, whose life and culture was nomadic, therefore, the structure and life of the family were modelled according to the conditions of nomadic life. Family members had to fight together against difficult living conditions. In this situation, children, girls and boys, have been involved in adult roles since an early age. In the old Turkish family, the man is a person with important functions and duties and the woman is the foundation of human society. The Turkish family in Romania can be presented from two perspectives: the Ottoman Turkish family and the modern Turkish family. By presenting the two components we will notice that the impact of modernism or rather of post-modernism is making its mark more and more, leading to the loss of traditional values that are intertwined with the spiritual crisis.
More...