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Cultural determinism and its ethnographic critique: The discursive shift in Italian social research
International Journal of Anthropology and EthnologyThe Japanese-American political scientist Francis Fukuyama described the Chinese as familists and Chinese society as a low-trust society. Such allegations about family values and social virtues stem from the discourse of cultural determinism, which was ...
Zhengyu Li
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The Learning Function of Evaluation: A Conceptual Framing
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we set out a conceptual overview of what we call learning in the evaluation ecosystem to depict the interplay between external influences, organizational and community factors, and learning levers (e.g. capacity building, systems thinking).
Jill Anne Chouinard, J. Bradley Cousins
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The “Solo of Deliberator”: Political Deliberation and Discourse Quality in China’s Cyberspace
Social Media + SocietyNuanced studies have scrutinized the facilitative role of digital media in fostering political deliberation and in contributing to the prospect of democratization in (semi-) authoritarian societies.
Tianru Guan, Xiaotong Chen
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ELT Educational Context, Teacher Intuition and Learner Hidden Agenda [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2009 This study, first, attempted to explore the conflict between EFL teacher intuition or concepts and learner's accounts of the distinctive features of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), and second to investigate the latter's " hidden agenda" (Nunan ...
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Should multinationals care about development? Rethinking global strategy in an unequal world
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary While multinational corporations (MNCs) can profoundly shape global development trajectories, global strategy research has largely treated development as peripheral to core strategic concerns. This Perspective paper examines the contested relationship between global strategy and development, arguing that MNCs are neither ...
Marcus M. Larsen +2 more
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Democratic Education for an Active Citizenship
Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social, 2016 Democratic education has a double meaning: educating for democracy by exercising democracy, it is –at the same time– a goal and context of education. Public education should train future citizens to actively participating in the public sphere, without ...
Antonio Bolívar
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues [PDF]
, 2009 The argument of this dissertation is that John Rawls, although primarily concerned with social and political justice, and not with virtue ethics, gives a major place and role to the moral virtues in his theory of political liberalism, as in all of his ...
Kabari, Joseph Alava
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Does one trust judgement fit all? Linking theory and empirics [PDF]
, 2010 Copyright @ 2010 The Authors. This is the accepted version of the following article: Fisher, J., Van Heerde, J. and Tucker, A. (2010), Does One Trust Judgement Fit All? Linking Theory and Empirics.
van Heerde, J +5 more
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Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a morally specific relational context and one within which many people do most of their eating.
Megan A. Dean
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THE WEST IN THE FACE OF CRISES SINCE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. RETURNING TO THE LAND AND TO LOCALITY IS ONE OF THE TRADITIONAL RESPONSES TO CRISES [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and GeositesResponses to epidemics and climate change since ancient times, as well as their interpretations, ar e recurrent in times of crisis. Confronted with what may appear to be a series of global crises - health, environmental, economic and even democratic ...
Anthony TCHEKEMIAN
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