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Cultural robotics : The culture of robotics and robotics in culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Copyright 2013 Samani et al.; licensee InTech. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
Bern Bruxelles Frankfurt am Main   +21 more
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Bourdieuian approaches to the geography of entrepreneurial cultures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Culture has emerged as an important concept within the entrepreneurship literature to help explain differences in the nature of the entrepreneurship process observed between regions, industries and socio-cultural groups.
Spigel, Ben
core   +2 more sources

Precedent names as a way to semiotize culture in modern German fictional discourse

open access: yesВестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2023
The article analyzes the functioning of precedent proper names through the lens of cognitive linguistics, using the novel Olga by Bernhardt Schlink as a source.
Yu. A. Blinova
doaj   +1 more source

Simmel's concept of culture [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Journal of Sociology: Current Issues, 2016
Culture is a Latin-origin word and derived from ‘cultura’. The word ‘cultura’ in Latin was then used for the meanings of to sow and get crops, produce. Before Turkish fell under the influence of Western languages, the word with Arab-origin ‘Hars’ was used instead of culture.
Eser Kececi, Gokce Kececi
openaire   +1 more source

The concept of school organizational culture in (post)pandemic environment [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
In the context of sociological interest, the fundamental goal of our research was to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organizational culture within elementary schools.
Relja Renata   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumption caught in the cash nexus. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
During the last thirty years, ‘consumption’ has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern ...
Appadurai, A.   +60 more
core   +1 more source

Culture, Nature, and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Northern Namibia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
Defining culture as shared knowledge, values, and practices, we introduce an anthropological concept of culture to the ecosystem-service debate. In doing so, we shift the focus from an analysis of culture as a residual category including recreational and
Michael Schnegg   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An analysis of culture as a tourism commodity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The notion of culture has been the object of multidisciplinary studies attempting, with difficulty, to define this polyhedral social concept expressed in symbolic representations.
Maccarrone-Eaglen, A
core   +1 more source

Cultural geography III: The concept of ‘culture’ [PDF]

open access: yesProgress in Human Geography, 2019
In my third report I argue that three versions of the concept of culture coexist in cultural geography in the wake of an interest in life and living: culture as assembled effect, culture as mediated experience, and culture as forms-of-life. All three break with one of the versions of culture in the ‘new’ cultural geography – culture as ‘signifying ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Perspectives on safety culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Overviewing selected elements from the literature, this paper locates the notion of safety culture within its parent concept of organisational culture. A distinction is drawn between functionalist and interpretive perspectives on organisational culture ...
A.I Glendon   +42 more
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