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Cultures as networks of cultural traits: A unifying framework for measuring culture and cultural distances [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Making use of the information from the World Value Survey (WVS), and operationalizing a definition of national culture that encompasses both the relevance of specific cultural traits and the interdependence among them, this paper proposes a methodology to reveal the latent structure of national culture and to measure cultural distance between countries
Luca De Benedictis, Roberto Rondinelli, Veronica Vinciotti   +2 more
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Culture [PDF]

Current Biology, 2020
If you are not sure what 'culture' means, you are not alone. In 1952, anthropologists Kroeber and Kluckhohn identified 164 definitions of culture and there has been growth rather than rationalisation in the ensuing 70 years. In everyday English, culture is the knowledge and behaviour that characterises a particular group of people.
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The cultural evolution of cultural evolution [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020
What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved culturally. We present an evolutionary account that shows this hypothesis to be coherent, plausible, and worthy of further investigation. It has the following steps: (0) in
Jonathan Birch, Cecilia Heyes
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Culture

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2010
AbstractThis article summarizes the definitions, means, and research of adapting psychotherapy to clients' cultural backgrounds. We begin by reviewing the prevailing definitions of cultural adaptation and providing a clinical example. We present an original meta‐analysis of 65 experimental and quasi‐experimental studies involving 8,620 participants ...
Smith, Timothy B., Domenech-Rodriguez, Melanie M., Bernal, Guillermo   +2 more
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Bulgarian sport policy 1945-1989: A strategic relation perspective [PDF]

, 2009
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have stimulated discussions about the success of different sport systems and the Chinese model in particular. Revisiting explanations of sport in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War seems ...
Bankov P., Bankov P., BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party), BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party), BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party), BOC (Bulgarian Olympic Committee), Brinton A., BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), BSFS (Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sport), Girginov V., Girginov V., Gruneau R., Haralampiev D., Henry I., Jessop B., Levinson C., Manolova M., Nassis P., Offe C., Riordan J., Riordan J., Stoichev A., Toshkova V., Vassev A., Vassil Girginov, Velev G., Weiss L.   +39 more
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Cultural Bias and Cultural Alignment of Large Language Models [PDF]

PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 9, September 2024, pgae346, 2023
Culture fundamentally shapes people's reasoning, behavior, and communication. As people increasingly use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to expedite and automate personal and professional tasks, cultural values embedded in AI models may bias people's authentic expression and contribute to the dominance of certain cultures.
arxiv   +1 more source

Postsecular instruments of acculturation : Czesław Miłosz's works from the second American Stay [PDF]

, 2017
The article raises the question about the ways in which religious tradition can become an ally in the process of acculturation while serving the modern subject both as a springboard for innovative, creative work and as a tool of self-improvement. Czesław
Jarzyńska, Karina
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Confronting “Culture” in Medicineʼs “Culture of No Culture” [PDF]

Academic Medicine, 2003
The author presents reflections from medical anthropology on the institutional culture of medicine and medical education, which sees itself as a "culture of no culture" and which systematically tends to foster static and essentialist conceptions of "culture" as applied to patients.
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Mystified Consciousness: Rethinking the Rise of the Far Right with Marx and Lacan [PDF]

, 2018
Why did the white working classes in the United States and elsewhere turn to the far right instead of uniting with the raced and gendered working class to overthrow capitalism? In this paper, I bring core concepts coined by Karl Marx in conversation with
Leeb, Claudia
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Culture and Motherhood: Findings from a Qualitative Study of East Asian Mothers in Britain’ [PDF]

, 2012
This article focuses on the possible impacts of Confucianism on the experiences of middle-class East Asian women with dependent children in Britain. By using the concept of ‘intersectionality’, it aims to understand the ways in which mothering identity ...
Lim, Hyun
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