Can Different Cultures Think The Same Thoughts

Author : Kenneth Dorter
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268103569

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Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts? by Kenneth Dorter Pdf

Kenneth Dorter’s Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts? is a study of fundamental issues in metaphysics and ethics across major philosophical traditions of the world, including the way in which metaphysics can be a foundation for ethics, as well as the importance of metaphysics on its own terms. Dorter examines such questions through a detailed comparison of selected major thinkers and classic works in three global philosophical traditions, those of India, China, and the West. In each chapter Dorter juxtaposes and compares two or more philosophers or classic works from different traditions, from Spinoza and Shankara, to Confucius and Plato, to Marcus Aurelius and the Bhagavad Gita. In doing so he explores different perspectives and reveals limitations and assumptions that might otherwise be obscure. The goal of Dorter’s cross-cultural approach is to consider how far works from different cultures can be understood as holding comparable philosophical views. Although Dorter reveals commonalities across the different traditions, he makes no claim that there is such a thing as a universal philosophy. Clearly there are fundamental disagreements among the philosophers and works studied. Yet in each of the case studies of a particular chapter, we can discover a shared, or at least analogous, way of looking at issues across different cultures. All those interested in metaphysics, ethics, Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy will find much of interest in this book.

Author : Kim Malone Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781760553029

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Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott Pdf

Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism, delivered to produce better results and help employees develop their skills and boundaries of success. Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Kim Scott Malone has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give actionable lessons to the reader, Radical Candor shows how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people both love their work, their colleagues and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.

Author : Donald M. Topping,Doris C. Crowell,Victor N. Kobayashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136563478

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Thinking Across Cultures by Donald M. Topping,Doris C. Crowell,Victor N. Kobayashi Pdf

This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives. The participants were asked to consider and assess the question of whether people from different cultures think differently. Moreover, they were asked to consider whether the same approaches to teaching and development of thinking will work in all cultures as well as they do in Western, literate societies.

Author : Tyson Yunkaporta
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062975638

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Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta Pdf

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently? In this thoughtful, culturally rich, mind-expanding book, he provides answers. Yunkaporta’s writing process begins with images. Honoring indigenous traditions, he makes carvings of what he wants to say, channeling his thoughts through symbols and diagrams rather than words. He yarns with people, looking for ways to connect images and stories with place and relationship to create a coherent world view, and he uses sand talk, the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to convey knowledge. In Sand Talk, he provides a new model for our everyday lives. Rich in ideas and inspiration, it explains how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It’s about how we learn and how we remember. It’s about talking to everyone and listening carefully. It’s about finding different ways to look at things. Most of all it’s about a very special way of thinking, of learning to see from a native perspective, one that is spiritually and physically tied to the earth around us, and how it can save our world. Sand Talk include 22 black-and-white illustrations that add depth to the text.

Author : David R. Olson,Nancy Torrance
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521566444

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Modes of Thought by David R. Olson,Nancy Torrance Pdf

Modes of Thought addresses a topic of broad interest to the cognitive sciences. Its central focus is on the apparent contrast between the widely assumed 'psychological unity of mankind' and the facts of cognitive pluralism, the diverse ways in which people think and the developmental, cultural, technological and institutional factors which contribute to that diversity. Whether described in terms of modes of thought, cognitive styles, or sensibilities, the diversity of patterns of rationality to be found between cultures, in different historical periods, between individuals at different stages of development remains a central problem for a cultural psychology. Modes of Thought brings together anthropologists, historians, psychologists and educational theorists who manage to recognise the universality in thinking and yet acknowledge the cultural, historical and developmental contexts in which differences arise.

Author : Owen Flanagan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691220994

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How to Do Things with Emotions by Owen Flanagan Pdf

An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shame The world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem frenzied, aimless, and cruel. At the same time, we witness political leaders and others who lack any sense of shame, even as they display carelessness with the truth and the common good. In How to Do Things with Emotions, Owen Flanagan explains that emotions are things we do, and he reminds us that those like anger and shame involve cultural norms and scripts. The ways we do these emotions offer no guarantee of emotionally or ethically balanced lives—but still we can control and change how such emotions are done. Flanagan makes a passionate case for tuning down anger and tuning up shame, and he observes how cultures around the world can show us how to perform these emotions better. Through comparative insights from anthropology, psychology, and cross-cultural philosophy, Flanagan reveals an incredible range in the expression of anger and shame across societies. He establishes that certain types of anger—such as those that lead to revenge or passing hurt on to others—are more destructive than we imagine. Certain forms of shame, on the other hand, can protect positive values, including courage, kindness, and honesty. Flanagan proposes that we should embrace shame as a uniquely socializing emotion, one that can promote moral progress where undisciplined anger cannot. How to Do Things with Emotions celebrates the plasticity of our emotional responses—and our freedom to recalibrate them in the pursuit of more fulfilling lives.

Author : Richard Nisbett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439106679

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The Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett Pdf

A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture. Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. But what if everyone is wrong? The Geography of Thought documents Richard Nisbett's groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology and shows that people actually think about—and even see—the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China. As a result, East Asian thought is “holistic”—drawn to the perceptual field as a whole and to relations among objects and events within that field. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to categories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior. From feng shui to metaphysics, from comparative linguistics to economic history, a gulf separates the children of Aristotle from the descendants of Confucius. At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that will span it.

Author : Donald M. Topping,Doris C. Crowell,Victor N. Kobayashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136563409

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Thinking Across Cultures by Donald M. Topping,Doris C. Crowell,Victor N. Kobayashi Pdf

This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives. The participants were asked to consider and assess the question of whether people from different cultures think differently. Moreover, they were asked to consider whether the same approaches to teaching and development of thinking will work in all cultures as well as they do in Western, literate societies.

Author : Youbin Zhao,Wei Lin,Zhiqing Zhang
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781631818615

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBALIZATION: CHALLENGES FOR TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS by Youbin Zhao,Wei Lin,Zhiqing Zhang Pdf

This two-volume book contains the refereed proceedings of The Second International Conference on Globalization: Challenges for Translators and Interpreters organized by the School of Translation Studies, Jinan University (China) on its Zhuhai campus, October 27-29, 2016. The interrelation between translation and globalization is essential reading for not only scholars and educators, but also anyone with an interest in translation and interpreting studies, or a concern for the future of our world’s languages and cultures. The past decade or so, in particular, has witnessed remarkable progress concerning research on issues related to this topic. Given this dynamic, The Second International Conference on Globalization: Challenges for Translators and Interpreters organized by the School of Translation Studies, Jinan University (China) organized by the School of Translation Studies, Jinan University (China), was held at the Zhuhai campus of Jinan University on October 27-29, 2016. This conference attracts a large number of translators, interpreters and researchers, providing a rare opportunity for academic exchange in this field. The 135 full papers accepted for the proceedings of The Second International Conference on Globalization: Challenges for Translators and Interpreters organized by the School of Translation Studies, Jinan University (China) were selected from 350 submissions. For each paper, the authors were shepherded by an experienced researcher. Generally, all of the submitted papers went through a rigorous peer-review process.

Author : Gustav Jahoda,Ioan Lewis
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317534396

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Acquiring Culture (Psychology Revivals) by Gustav Jahoda,Ioan Lewis Pdf

Until the 70s and 80s anthropologists studying different cultures had mainly confined themselves to the behaviour and idea systems of adults. Psychologists, on the other hand, working mainly in Europe and America, had studied child development in their own settings and simply assumed the universality of their findings. Thus both disciplines had largely ignored a crucial problem area: the way in which children from birth onwards learn to become competent members of their culture. This process, which has been called ‘the quintessential human adaptation’, constitutes the theme of this volume, originally published in 1988. It derives from a workshop held at the London School of Economics which brought together fieldworkers who in their studies had paid more than usual attention to children in their cultures. Their experience and foci of interest were varied but this very diversity serves to illuminate different facets of the acquisition of culture by children, ranging in age from pre-verbal infants to adolescents. Evolutionarily primed for culture-learning, children are responsive to a rich web of influences from subtle and indirect as in their music and dance to direct teaching in the family guided by culture-specific ideas about child psychology. Some of the salient things they learn relate to gender, status and power, critical for the functioning of all societies. The introductory essay provides the necessary historical background of the development of child study in both anthropology and psychology and outlined how future research in the ethnography of childhood should proceed. The book concludes with an annotated bibliography providing a guide to the literature from 1970 onwards.

Author : Dr. Yongqiang LIU _永_
Publisher : 清華大學出版社
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9787302422594

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A Paradigm for Business Communication across Cultures: Theoretical Highlights for Practice by Dr. Yongqiang LIU _永_ Pdf

�Today’s global citizens operate business and management endeavors on a global scale. Globalization generates an increasing demand for effective communication in diverse cultural contexts and challenges the relevance of culture in operating businesses in the global village. Communication differences are apparent in many scenarios. Expatriates of international organizations operating abroad adopt their native cultural values to motivate employees of foreign cultures with an entirely different perspective. They use one culture’s motives to move people from other cultures. In global marketing communication, the communicators use values systems of their native culture to develop advertising for other cultures. They use categorizations of one culture to describe others. Such divergence in attitudes, perspectives and priorities of suppliers, and customers with different cultural backgrounds have led to many project failures in international organizations. An in-depth understanding of cultural backgrounds and the potential impact on communication of the people one is interacting with can increase the probability of business success among investors, managers, entrepreneurs and employees operating in diverse cultures. However, effective cross cultural business communication needs to recognize and adopt an interdisciplinary perspective in understanding the cultural forces (Leung, K. et al., 2005). Therefore, we need a multidisciplinary paradigm to carry on effective and successful business communication in our contemporary global village. 本_构建有效的跨文化商__通理_模型，__企_商__略、宏_社_文化、__文化在构建企__通_略中的作用与影_，研究_言与文化在信息__与解__程中的作用，以及_通中的有效_言策略和模糊_言策略。同_，本__合理_模型，提出了有效的跨文化___通_略、_告_通_略和_判_通_略，并提供了提高_通效率与效果的技能和方法。

Author : Richard E. Nisbett,Lee Ross
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015015414181

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Human Inference by Richard E. Nisbett,Lee Ross Pdf

Author : Farzad Sharifian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317743170

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture by Farzad Sharifian Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language and culture, and addresses key issues of language and culturally based linguistic research from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks. This Handbook features thirty-three newly commissioned chapters which cover key areas such as cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics offer insights into the historical development, contemporary theory, research, and practice of each topic, and explore the potential future directions of the field show readers how language and culture research can be of practical benefit to applied areas of research and practice, such as intercultural communication and second language teaching and learning. Written by a group of prominent scholars from around the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture provides a vital resource for scholars and students working in this area.

Author : Richard East
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780557116898

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How to Attract Your Hearts Desire by Richard East Pdf

The Secrets to Attracting Your Hearts Desire Can you imagine, attracting all the desires of your heart? Can you imagine, being able to change your circumstances. Bringing every delight and incentive your heart truly desires, into your life. What we are taught to believe about reality, conflicts with this idea. And yet everyone has this ability within themselves to change their life. You have already seen results in your life without even knowing what you were doing. Think about it! You have accomplished things in your life that you truly believed you were capable of doing; the things you focus on and have no doubts about, actually come to pass. Our lives are shaped by the things we spend the most time thinking about.

Author : Joshua N. Hook,Donald D. Davis,Jesse Owen,Cirleen DeBlaere
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1433827778

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Cultural Humility by Joshua N. Hook,Donald D. Davis,Jesse Owen,Cirleen DeBlaere Pdf

This book offers a clear, easily adaptable model for understanding and working with cultural differences in therapy.