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

Ecology 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, Robin Rieprich, Michael Pröpper   +2 more
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An analysis of culture as a tourism commodity [PDF]

, 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
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Antecknat: Det mångfacetterade kulturbegreppet

Kulturella Perspektiv, 2012
In 1982, ethnologists Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren rhetorically asked whether the concept of culture could mean anything, and whether it would not be wiser to just stick to one definition of it. Some thirty years later, it has become quite clear that the
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
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Methods of Analysis of Strategic Cultures

Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2023
The aim of the article is to reveal the intention of “strategic culture”, which has a significant cognitive potential for studying the political course of the main players in the modern world.
V. K. Belozerov
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Perspectives on safety culture [PDF]

, 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, Brown, Burrell, Checkland, Cooke, Cooke, Cooper, Cox, Coyle, Deal, Dedobbeleer, Douglas, Eldridge, Furnham, Glendon, Glendon, Gorman, Gouldner, Graves, Gross, Hofstede, Hofstede, House, James, Koys, Locatelli, Lundberg, N.A Stanton, Reason, Rousseau, Schein, Schein, Smircich, Stanton, Tucker, Turner, Vetere, Waring, Waring, Waring, Williams, Williamson, Zohar   +42 more
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“Ghost on the coast”: Persistent hallucinations through the prism of cultural concepts of distress

Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2021
There is minimal literature and case reports on cultural concepts of distress, especially on ghost sickness. The aim of this article is to educate clinicians to culture-bound syndromes/cultural concepts of distress when assessing people from culturally ...
Hesitha Abeysundera, Hemant Khanna
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Between history and system. Heinrich Rickert’s concept of culture [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2022
The paper reconstructs the concept of culture that emerges from Heinrich Rickert’s neo-Kantianism, uncovering its major historical-problematic, methodological, and philosophical implications.
Morrone Giovanni
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Wigs, disguises and child's play : solidarity in teacher education [PDF]

, 2013
It is generally acknowledged that much contemporary education takes place within a dominant audit culture, in which accountability becomes a powerful driver of educational practices.
Aloni M., Apple M. W., Apple M. W., Ball S., Bateson G., Camus A., Carr D., Davis A., Davis A., DCSF, de Certeau M., Dewey J., DfE, Donne J., Dunne J., Estola E., Fielding M., Freire P., Fromberg D. P., Fromberg D. P., Hansen D. T., Heilbronn R., Heilbronn R., Huebner D., Jenkinson S., Kitchner K. S., Korthagen F., Levinas E., Lum G., Lum G., Margonis F., McCune L., OED, Papastephanou M., Parsons F., Peters R. S., Plowden B., Ruth Heilbronn, Stern S., Stobart G., Teddlie C., Thompson M., Van Manen M., Wiedmaier D.   +43 more
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The Efficiency of Physical Therapy for Women with Degenerative Diseases of the Cervical and Thoracic Spine Based on the BodyArt Fitness Method

Physical Education Theory and Methodology
Objectives. This study aimed to scientifically substantiate, develop and evaluate the effectiveness of including the BodyArt fitness method in the rehabilitation plan of female patients with cervicothoracic osteochondrosis in the phase of periodic ...
Sviatoslava Pashkevych, Yuliya Kalmykova, Nataliya Golod, Sergey Kalmykov, Olena Bismak, Daria Okun, Maria Sokol   +6 more
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Culture as Deficit: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Concept of Culture in Contemporary Social Work Discourse

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 2005
This paper is a critical discourse analysis of the usage of the concept of "culture" in social work discourse. The paper argues that "culture" is inscribed as a marker for difference which has largely replaced the categories of race and ethnicity as the ...
Yoosun Park
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