Knowledge Across Cultures

Author : Hilda Briks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016321619

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Knowledge Across Cultures by Hilda Briks Pdf

Author : David Easton,Corinne S. Schelling
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012158593

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Divided Knowledge by David Easton,Corinne S. Schelling Pdf

Divided Knowledge presents nine of the keynote papers prepared for the historic Beijing Symposium sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In this collection the disciplines of sociology, political science, philosophy, literary theory and history are included as well as the interdisciplinary fields of public policy, area studies and business management. The articles, as well as addressing the need for renewed scholarship in areas (political science and sociology) previously forbidden in China, represent the predominant themes of the Symposium: the fragmentations of fields of knowledge in the West and consequent efforts to integrate them for application to soci

Author : John Hooker
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804748071

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Working Across Cultures by John Hooker Pdf

A guide to adapting and thriving within unfamiliar cultural settings challenges the notion that professional life interacts with culture only at the etiquette level, distinguishing between rule-based and relationship-based cultures while considering the roles of such factors as competition, security, and lifestyle. (Social Science)

Author : Radosveta Dimitrova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319683638

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Well-Being of Youth and Emerging Adults across Cultures by Radosveta Dimitrova Pdf

The current volume presents new empirical data on well-being of youth and emerging adults from a global international perspective. Its outstanding features are the focus on vast geographical regions (e.g., Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America), and on strengths and resources for optimal well-being. The international and multidisciplinary contributions address the complexities of young people’s life in a variety of cultural settings to explore how key developmental processes such as identity, religiosity and optimism, social networks, and social interaction in families and society at large promote optimal and successful adaptation. The volume draws on core theoretical models of human development to highlight the applicability of these frameworks to culturally diverse youth and emerging adults as well as universalities and cultural specifics in optimal outcomes. With its innovative and cutting-edge approaches to cultural, theoretical and methodological issues, the book offers up-to-date evidence and insights for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the fields of cross-cultural psychology, developmental science, human development, sociology, and social work.

Author : Myint Swe Khine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781402065965

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Knowing, Knowledge and Beliefs by Myint Swe Khine Pdf

Bringing together prominent educators and researchers, this book focuses on conceptual and methodological issues relevant to the nature of knowledge and learning. It offers a state-of-the-art theoretical understanding of epistemological beliefs from both educational and psychological perspectives. Readers discover recent advances in conceptualization and epistemological studies across diverse cultures. This is an unbeatable resource for academics and researchers alike.

Author : E. Doyle McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134921232

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Knowledge as Culture by E. Doyle McCarthy Pdf

Drawing on the Marxist, French structuralist and American pragmatist traditions, this is a lively and accessible introduction to the sociology of knowledge.

Author : Martin J. Gannon
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761913386

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Working Across Cultures by Martin J. Gannon Pdf

The 71 exercises in this book can help you provide students and trainees with the practical experience and knowledge needed to succeed in real-world situations. Drawing from over 15 years of cross-cultural training experience, the author has assembled a diverse number of engaging exercises that can be quickly implemented with minimal effort. Self-administered questionnaires, case studies, culture-focused interviews, and pro and con debates are just a few of the wide range of activities you can use to enrich the classroom.

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401701495

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Nature Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Author : Maureen Guirdham,Oliver Guirdham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137526373

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Communicating Across Cultures at Work by Maureen Guirdham,Oliver Guirdham Pdf

This revised and updated fourth edition of this core textbook builds on the text's established success. It provides the basis of knowledge, understanding and practice for developing skilled work communication in an intercultural world. Using many illustrations and international examples, the book analyses culture, cultural diversity and cultural similarities and differences in how we interact at work and in the psychological factors that influence our communication. It shows how to overcome impediments to intercultural communication and interact effectively with different others, whether face-to-face or by email, chat, text, phone or video. It describes cultural differences in negotiating, cooperation, coordination, knowledge sharing, working in groups and leadership, and demonstrates how to perform these activities skilfully in an intercultural setting. This textbook is the ideal companion for students taking undergraduate modules in cross-cultural management or managing diversity on international business or business administration degrees, in addition to MBA courses and specialist postgraduate modules on international and comparative management. New to this Edition: - New and improved pedagogical features, including end of Part exercises, activities and role plays - Topic-by-topic coverage of computer-mediated communication, explaining how it is affected by culture and in turn affects intercultural communication - Discussion of new developments in the field such as the increasing emphasis on language and discourses - Focus on new types of research such as country-by-country studies and reports of realities on the ground

Author : Heather Bowe,Kylie Martin,Howard Manns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107685147

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Communication Across Cultures by Heather Bowe,Kylie Martin,Howard Manns Pdf

Communication Across Cultures remains an excellent resource for students of linguistics and related disciplines, including anthropology, sociology and education. It is also a valuable resource for professionals concerned with language and intercultural communication in this global era.

Author : Dagmar Schäfer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004218444

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Cultures of Knowledge by Dagmar Schäfer Pdf

Identifying four spheres of knowledge culture in the history of technology in China, this book offers an introduction to the transmission of knowledge and detailed contextual descriptions of individual technologies in China such as porcelain, silk, and agriculture.

Author : David Pauleen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313090554

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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Knowledge Management by David Pauleen Pdf

Knowledge, as intellectual capital in organizations, is one of the most valuable resources in the global economy; yet knowledge management research has been largely contained both within organizational boundaries and from the perspective of the West (in particular the United States). Here, the views of a diverse range of well-known academic researchers, industry leaders, and public policy experts have been brought together to show how knowledge and knowledge management perspectives vary across different cultures, in different contexts, using different processes for different purposes.

Author : Anna Robinson-Pant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:871573209

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Researching Ethically Across Cultures by Anna Robinson-Pant Pdf

Author : Daniela Bleichmar,Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812204964

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Collecting Across Cultures by Daniela Bleichmar,Peter C. Mancall Pdf

In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from faraway places. Objects traveled various routes—personal, imperial, missionary, or trade—and moved not only across space but also across cultures. Histories of the early modern global culture of collecting have focused for the most part on European Wunderkammern, or "cabinets of curiosities." But the passion for acquiring unfamiliar items rippled across many lands. The court in Java marveled at, collected, and displayed myriad goods brought through its halls. African princes traded captured members of other African groups so they could get the newest kinds of cloth produced in Europe. Native Americans sought colored glass beads made in Europe, often trading them to other indigenous groups. Items changed hands and crossed cultural boundaries frequently, often gaining new and valuable meanings in the process. An object that might have seemed mundane in some cultures could become a target of veneration in another. The fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures represent work by an international group of historians, art historians, and historians of science. Each author explores a specific aspect of the cross-cultural history of collecting and display from the dawn of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. As the essays attest, an examination of early modern collecting in cross-cultural contexts sheds light on the creative and complicated ways in which objects in collections served to create knowledge—some factual, some fictional—about distant peoples in an increasingly transnational world.

Author : Stella Ting-Toomey,Tenzin Dorjee
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781462536474

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Communicating Across Cultures, Second Edition by Stella Ting-Toomey,Tenzin Dorjee Pdf

"Description: This highly regarded text--now revised and expanded with 50% new material--helps students and professionals mindfully build their knowledge and competencies for effective intercultural communication on any setting. The authors' comprehensive, updated theoretical framework (integrative identity negotiation theory) reveals how both verbal and nonverbal communication are affected by multilayered facets of identity. Written in a candid, conversational style, the book is rich with engaging examples illustrating cultural conflicts and misunderstandings that arise in workplace, educational, interpersonal, and community contexts. Readers learn how to transform polarized conversations into successful intercultural engagements by combining culture-specific knowledge with mindful listening and communication skills. Key Words: intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication, human communication, communication skills, cultural competence, ethnic relations, ethnic studies, multicultural counseling, international business relations, cultural diversity, cross-cultural psychology, ethnography, mindful communication, mindfulness, intergroup communication, integrative identity negotiation theory, acculturation, adjustment, immigration, immigrants, listening skills, textbooks, texts, college classes, college courses, college students, undergraduates, graduates, foreign students, refugees, social psychology, sociolingustics, international competence"--