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Culture and the meanings of cancer
Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 1995This article proposes that the nurse understand culture ideationally in terms of models of reality. A distinction is made between cultural and individual models, and between lay persons' models of sickness and practitioners' models. These are described and discussed in relation to the meanings of cancer.
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Cultural Meanings of Childbirth
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 1995In no known culture in the world is childbearing treated with indifference. Cultural beliefs about and values associated with childbearing touch all aspects of social life in any given culture. Such beliefs and values lend perspective to the meaning of childbirth to the childbearing woman.
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Cultural Meaning of Cancer Suffering
Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 2011It is not possible to understand the cancer experience independent from the specific culture. The history, culture, related values, and traditions shape the experience of Turkish cancer patients. This article aims to review the current Turkish literature on the psychological and psychosocial effects of cancer and its related burden.
Sedat, Ozkan, Mine, Ozkan, Zeynep, Armay
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The Effects of Culture on the Meaning of Loneliness
Social Indicators Research, 2001The present study examined the influence of cultural background on the experience of loneliness. Three hundred and seventy five participants from North America and 375 from Croatia volunteered to answer an 82 item questionnaire which examined the quality of their loneliness experiences.
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2014
In hundred-years time, Angela Doyle will be dead and mostly forgotten. She will be a name among all the other names in the graveyard in Greyrock. To die is to enter into meaninglessness. For the moment, however, her life is full of meaning. We can imagine her busy in and around her home, on the phone, organizing meetings, driving down to the village ...
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In hundred-years time, Angela Doyle will be dead and mostly forgotten. She will be a name among all the other names in the graveyard in Greyrock. To die is to enter into meaninglessness. For the moment, however, her life is full of meaning. We can imagine her busy in and around her home, on the phone, organizing meetings, driving down to the village ...
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1998
Building upon the insights of postmodernism, this book argues for an approach to studying culture that has as its basis the social construction of meaning and reality and emphasizes micro-level processes and emotion. In general, postmodernism privileges the structure of culture and posits that due to identifiable social dynamics, the structure of ...
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Building upon the insights of postmodernism, this book argues for an approach to studying culture that has as its basis the social construction of meaning and reality and emphasizes micro-level processes and emotion. In general, postmodernism privileges the structure of culture and posits that due to identifiable social dynamics, the structure of ...
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Philosophy of Science, 1938
Few words appear more frequently in the literature of contemporary social science than “culture.” Not only does it occur frequently, but with such a multitude of meanings that a single definition of the term becomes almost impossible. Even a cursory examination of social scientific writing discloses that its signification varies with the contexts in ...
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Few words appear more frequently in the literature of contemporary social science than “culture.” Not only does it occur frequently, but with such a multitude of meanings that a single definition of the term becomes almost impossible. Even a cursory examination of social scientific writing discloses that its signification varies with the contexts in ...
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The Cultural Meaning of Suicide: What Does That Mean?
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2012Scholars sometimes stress that it is important to know the individual meaning of suicide and the cultural meaning of suicide, but the meaning of these terms remains unclear. The present article discusses this problem and suggests that the individual meaning of suicide is best based on the motives for suicide, while the cultural meaning of suicide is ...
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2012
“Culture” is on everyone’s lips these days, but it is too difficult to define. Please refer to the following expressions in some important literature.
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“Culture” is on everyone’s lips these days, but it is too difficult to define. Please refer to the following expressions in some important literature.
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Video as a means of cultural familiarization
System, 1987Abstract The literature on the LT use of video warns against the entertainment associations of the medium in learners' minds and generally recommends an intensive and highly purposeful exploitation of input material. This article will argue that the use of longer input sequences with only loosely defined learning aims can create positive conditions ...
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