A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Social Functions of Housing

1972 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 750 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Belcher ◽  
Pablo B. Vazquez-Calcerrada
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Social

The social functions of shamanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Watson-Jones ◽  
Cristine H. Legare
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cultural Evolutionary

AbstractCultural evolutionary accounts of shamanism must explain the cross-cultural recurrence and variation in associated practices. We suggest that Singh's account of shamanism would be strengthened by considering the social functions of shamanism in groups. Shamanism increases social group cohesion, making it distinct from other magico-religious practices.

Analyses of the experimental learning results of teaching fiction translation among students of a linguistic university in the light of social-cultural approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
Сабина Исаева ◽  
Sabina Isaeva
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Experimental Teaching ◽  
The Social ◽  
Experimental Learning ◽  
Translational Equivalence ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
Everyday Knowledge ◽  
Different Levels

Modern workbooks on teaching fiction translation do not fully embrace the social-cultural component of educational content, despite the state standard strict demand on seeing students mainly as an object of cultural dialog. According to this, a row of competence, possessing demands of preparing students that can use foreign language as an instrument of social-cultural communication, may be insufficient for forming skills in fiction translation. Due to this fact we have worked out and tested the model of forming skills in fiction translation using social-cultural approach among students of a linguistic university. The forming of translational social-cultural competence, which the totality of social and political, cultural and historical, demographic and everyday knowledge about the country of the language during the creation of identical translation version in accordance with cross-cultural equivalence level and the way of translation of social-cultural realias, is the result of education. The author has created two diagrams to demonstrate social-cultural changes on different levels of translational equivalence: one illustrates ways of translation of social-cultural realias typical for the proper level, the other shows how different groups of realias split on different levels of cross-cultural equivalence. Suggested model of education is based on teaching students fiction translation according to these diagrams; according to this model the process of education is real- ized according to the principle from simple to complicated, i.e. from formal equivalence level to descriptive. Taking into account the statistic analyses of experimental teaching results, it demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed teaching model, we can conclude that using this model on teaching fiction translation process in linguistic university will help students to broaden their social-cultural database and embrace some skills in fiction translation.

scholarly journals Music Makes the People Come Together: Social Functions of Music Listening for Young People Across Cultures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Diana Boer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Music Preferences ◽  
Expressive Function ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Functions

<p>Music is important in most people''s lives independent of their cultural origin. Music can foster bonds between people and communicate values and identity. This thesis examined the social psychological functions of music across cultures. It investigated two social functions in detail: music preferences as expressions of personal and cultural values, and the social bonding function of shared music preferences. Furthermore, this thesis explored how these social functions relate to personal and cultural functions of music. This broader perspective offered an integration of the social functions into a holistic topography of musical functions. Six cross-cultural studies were conducted with the overarching objective to advance research on social functions of music preferences in cross-cultural contexts. Studies 1 and 2 explored the associations between music preferences and personal and cultural values drawing on Attitude-Function Theory and Expectancy-Value Theory. Study 1 revealed that preferences for global music styles (such as Rock, Pop and Classical music) were consistently associated with personal value orientations across four cultures and across two value measurements. Study 2 explored the tendency of societies to appreciate global music styles in association with their cultural values. Findings of a multicultural study and a meta-analysis confirmed that cultural values were related to societal music appreciation. Studies 1 and 2 advance our understanding of people's musical choices based on personal and cultural values. Studies 3 and 4 tested a novel model illuminating social bonding through shared music preferences. The model proposes that the value-expressive function of music preferences plays a crucial role in musical social bonding. Two studies supported the model empirically. A dyadic study among roommates in Hong Kong (Study 3) demonstrated that roommates who shared music preferences had similar value orientations, which contributed to perceived similarity between roommates leading to interpersonal attraction. The social perception experiment (Study 4) among German Metal and Hip-hop fans showed that shared music preference with a musical ingroup member was a robust vehicle for social bonding. In both studies, musical social bonding was facilitated by value similarity. Studies 5 and 6 offered holistic psychological investigations situating and relating individual, social, and cultural functions of music as perceived and used by culturally diverse samples. While the multicultural qualitative Study 5 identified a variety of personal, social and cultural functions of music, the quantitative Study 6 aimed to measure a selected number of these functions. Both studies revealed that the social bonding function of music was closely related to the value-expressive function. The social bonding function represented the centre of a holistic topography of musical functions. Its importance was independent of cultural background and socio-demographic variables in the present samples indicating universal characteristics. The findings of this thesis contribute novel perspectives to contemporary music reception research as well as cross-cultural psychology. Using an explicit cultural-comparative approach beyond previous mono-cultural social psychological research on music it advances our understanding of music in a global context. It revealed that people use music similarly across cultures for expressing values, for social bonding and for multiple other functions. This thesis underscores that music is a powerful prosocial resource.</p>

scholarly journals IDEOLOGICALLY-EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF TOURISM SPECIALISTS’ TRAINING IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING THE COURSE OF «PHILOSOPHY»

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Anatolii YAROVYI
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Education ◽  
Human Spirituality ◽  
Educational Professional

The article deals with the social functions of philosophical factors in the formation of a modern model of tourism specialist. This model is formed and considered in accordance with the basic normative educational document - the Standard of higher education in the specialty 242 "Tourism" of the field of knowledge 24 "Sphere of service" by educational and professional program (OPP). The author makes a sample of some of the general competences provided by the educational-professional program of preparation of bachelors in the specialty "Tourism" and monitors the provision of appropriate substantiation of the nature of their provision in teaching the course "Philosophy". It is also substantiated that the philosophical and cultural approach in the system of tourism education allows the whole tourism industry to reach a higher level of self-awareness and adequately reflect a deeper understanding of tourism not just as a combination of travel and entertainment, but as a powerful factor in integrating and generating human spirituality. The author monitors these positions on the example of philosophical and cultural provision of relevant competencies of tourism specialists.

scholarly journals Music Makes the People Come Together: Social Functions of Music Listening for Young People Across Cultures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Diana Boer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Music Preferences ◽  
Expressive Function ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Functions

<p>Music is important in most people''s lives independent of their cultural origin. Music can foster bonds between people and communicate values and identity. This thesis examined the social psychological functions of music across cultures. It investigated two social functions in detail: music preferences as expressions of personal and cultural values, and the social bonding function of shared music preferences. Furthermore, this thesis explored how these social functions relate to personal and cultural functions of music. This broader perspective offered an integration of the social functions into a holistic topography of musical functions. Six cross-cultural studies were conducted with the overarching objective to advance research on social functions of music preferences in cross-cultural contexts. Studies 1 and 2 explored the associations between music preferences and personal and cultural values drawing on Attitude-Function Theory and Expectancy-Value Theory. Study 1 revealed that preferences for global music styles (such as Rock, Pop and Classical music) were consistently associated with personal value orientations across four cultures and across two value measurements. Study 2 explored the tendency of societies to appreciate global music styles in association with their cultural values. Findings of a multicultural study and a meta-analysis confirmed that cultural values were related to societal music appreciation. Studies 1 and 2 advance our understanding of people's musical choices based on personal and cultural values. Studies 3 and 4 tested a novel model illuminating social bonding through shared music preferences. The model proposes that the value-expressive function of music preferences plays a crucial role in musical social bonding. Two studies supported the model empirically. A dyadic study among roommates in Hong Kong (Study 3) demonstrated that roommates who shared music preferences had similar value orientations, which contributed to perceived similarity between roommates leading to interpersonal attraction. The social perception experiment (Study 4) among German Metal and Hip-hop fans showed that shared music preference with a musical ingroup member was a robust vehicle for social bonding. In both studies, musical social bonding was facilitated by value similarity. Studies 5 and 6 offered holistic psychological investigations situating and relating individual, social, and cultural functions of music as perceived and used by culturally diverse samples. While the multicultural qualitative Study 5 identified a variety of personal, social and cultural functions of music, the quantitative Study 6 aimed to measure a selected number of these functions. Both studies revealed that the social bonding function of music was closely related to the value-expressive function. The social bonding function represented the centre of a holistic topography of musical functions. Its importance was independent of cultural background and socio-demographic variables in the present samples indicating universal characteristics. The findings of this thesis contribute novel perspectives to contemporary music reception research as well as cross-cultural psychology. Using an explicit cultural-comparative approach beyond previous mono-cultural social psychological research on music it advances our understanding of music in a global context. It revealed that people use music similarly across cultures for expressing values, for social bonding and for multiple other functions. This thesis underscores that music is a powerful prosocial resource.</p>

Illiteracy in the Ghetto

1970 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Torrey
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Grade School ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Barriers To Teaching

Examining the possible implications of dialect differences for learning to read, Dr. Torrey contends that it is cross-cultural variations in the social functions and significance of language, rather than minor structural differences, that create barriers to teaching and learning. The author calls for cultural and linguistic pluralism not only in grade school, but throughout this country's educational and occupational systems.

Speaker-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef A. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Levantine Arabic ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Social Acts

This chapter examines the social functions of speaker-oriented attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. It analyzes these datives as perspectivizers used by a speaker to instruct her hearer to view her as a form of authority in relation to him, to the content of her utterance, and to the activity they are both involved in. The nature of this authority depends on the sociocultural, situational, and co-textual context, including the speaker’s and hearer’s shared values and beliefs, their respective identities, and the social acts employed in interaction. The chapter analyzes specific instances of speaker-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts (e.g., commands, complaints) and in different types of settings (e.g., family talk, gossip). It also examines how these datives interact with facework, politeness, and rapport management.

Pro linhvistychni pokaznyky vzayemodiyi mova – kulʹtura na prykladi analizu polʹsʹko- ukrayinsʹkoho pohranychchya XV-XIXst.

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-148
Author(s):  
Halyna Маtsyuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Polish Language

The article is devoted to the formation of a linguistic interpretation of the interaction of language and culture of the Polish-Ukrainian border territories. The material for the analysis includes nomic systems of Ukrainian and Polish languages, which are considered as a cultural product of interpersonal and interethnic communication and an element of the language system, as well as invariant scientific theory created in the works of Polish onomastics (according to key theoretical concepts, tradition of analysis, and continuity in linguistic knowledge). The analysis performed in the article allows us to single out the linguistic indicators of the interaction of language and culture typical for the subject field of sociolinguistics. These are connections and concepts: language-territory, language-social strata, language-gender, language-ethnicity, social functions of the Polish language, and non-standardized spelling systems. Linguistic indicators reveal the peculiar mechanisms of the border in the historical memory and collective consciousness, marking the role of languages in these areas as a factor of space and cultural marker and bringing us closer to understanding the social relations of native speakers in the fifteenth-nineteenth centuries.

An Overview of the Social Functions of Gossip in the Hospitals

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Babaei Aghbolagh ◽  
Farzad Sattari Ardabili
Keyword(s):  
Social Functions ◽  
The Social
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