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Cultural universals: So what?

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1989
The search for the elusive "cultural universal s” in a variety of academic disciplines has been motivated b y the spectre of relativism in its diverse guises.
M. Elaine Botha
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance in Europe: The Moderating Effects of Industry, Culture, and Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance for European firms, and the moderating roles of industry and country‐specific factors in this relationship. Studying a sample of 2340 companies across 18 countries, we find Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scores to ...
Veda Fatmy, Venla Haavisto, Janne Äijö
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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
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Report and Analysis on Ayatullah Jawadi Amuli’s Viewpoint about the Ethical Relativism [PDF]

اخلاق وحیانی, 2011
Ascription and moral relativism are of important issues throughout the history of philosophy. Some people impressed by the findings of cultural differences; societies; customs; And even personal tastes, with rejecting every kind of generalism and ...
Mustafa Salatin, Muhsen Jawadi
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Intercultural Philosophy in Accordance With Herders' Philosophy of Culture [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2018
Can Herder's philosophy of culture be a model for what is now called intercultural philosophy? Following the list of the components of intercultural philosophy from the standpoint of Ram and the Wimer in one case, Herder's thoughts about the plurality of
Mohammad Meshkat, Ali Asghar Mosleh
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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THE CRISIS OF THE REASON IN THE XX CENTURY AND THE DISCOURSES OF LEGITIMATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS: OVERCOMING THE DISPUTE BETWEEN UNIVERSALISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND THE AFFIRMATION OF A COSMOPOLITAN PROJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Revista Direitos Culturais, 2012
Philosophy, during the history of the western civilization, was supplanted by the techno-science relatively to the explanations of the world and by the Christianity relatively to the sense of life, under the point of view of the masses.
José Renato Gaziero Cella, Paola Bianchi Wojciechowski   +1 more
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Fluctuating futures: coming of age in the biggest social housing neighbourhood in Milan Futurs fluctuants : passage à l’âge adulte dans le plus grand quartier de logements sociaux de Milan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article – part of a six‐year ethnographic research project – aims to deconstruct and ‘decolonize’ essentialized notions of adolescence and youth, primarily through the application of the category of intersectionality. The research focuses on a series of educational initiatives implemented in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing ...
Paolo Grassi
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The Existence of Cultural Relativism and Its Approach on Different Function of Human Capabilities: A Case from Indonesia

Nurani Hukum, 2022
The universal notion of Human Rights evokes our curiosity on how the same value can be adopted by different time, space, place, and culture. In another side, Capability Approach helps us conceiving how the same human capabilities can be interpreted ...
Surya Oktaviandra
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