Promoting exchange between East and West management cultures: The role of dialogue

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muayyad Jabri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mistaken Assumption ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThis paper calls on cultural studies as a resource for rethinking East and West management cultures. An analysis of East and West management cultures reveals that much of our prevailing knowledge of East and West management cultures is derived from cross-national comparisons of culture. These comparisons are predicated on assumptions of instrumental rationality and the cultural homogeneity of the self with social others, which effectively presume an ontology of the self as stable, enduring, and the same as social others. For promoting exchange between East and West management cultures, there is a need to move beyond this mistaken assumption of ontological ‘sameness’. To achieve this, the paper argues that at least two changes are required: (i) reversing the tendency to treat culture as an entity that is separate from the individual; and (ii) reversing the tendency to treat the narrative identity of the individual as stable and enduring. With a view to realising these changes, the paper proposes the notion of ‘dialogical encounter’ as a means of enabling individuals to be given a role in determining how their culture is ‘made known’ to others.

Promoting exchange between East and West management cultures: The role of dialogue

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muayyad Jabri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mistaken Assumption ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThis paper calls on cultural studies as a resource for rethinking East and West management cultures. An analysis of East and West management cultures reveals that much of our prevailing knowledge of East and West management cultures is derived from cross-national comparisons of culture. These comparisons are predicated on assumptions of instrumental rationality and the cultural homogeneity of the self with social others, which effectively presume an ontology of the self as stable, enduring, and the same as social others. For promoting exchange between East and West management cultures, there is a need to move beyond this mistaken assumption of ontological ‘sameness’. To achieve this, the paper argues that at least two changes are required: (i) reversing the tendency to treat culture as an entity that is separate from the individual; and (ii) reversing the tendency to treat the narrative identity of the individual as stable and enduring. With a view to realising these changes, the paper proposes the notion of ‘dialogical encounter’ as a means of enabling individuals to be given a role in determining how their culture is ‘made known’ to others.

Confession, conscience, and selfhood on trial

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-177
Author(s):  
Laura Kounine
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
Moral Question ◽  
Modern Self ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Over Time

This chapter deals with the role of the self and conscience in defending oneself against the charge of witchcraft. To add depth to intellectual concepts—and teleologies—of the self, we must understand how the individual self was understood, felt, and experienced. Particularly for the crime of witchcraft, the crux of the trial was premised on the moral question of what kind of person would commit such a crime. Those on trial for witchcraft in the Lutheran duchy of Württemberg invoked the idioms of ‘mind’, ‘conscience’, ‘heart’, or ‘self’ in constructing their defence. Through four case studies, ranging from 1565 to 1678, this chapter examines the different ways in which people could conceptualize their person, and shows that change over time in the ‘development’ of the modern self was not a uniform or directly linear pattern.

scholarly journals MIKHAIL VRUBEL IN SEARCH OF THE “STYLISHLY BEAUTIFUL”. THE BIOGRAPHICAL ASPECT

Articult ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Olga S. Davydova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Russian Symbolism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Independent Existence

The article is a conceptual exploration of the life and creative path of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910) in the context of the individual characteristics of his personality. The relevance of this study is determined by the need to find new conceptual angles in the field of understanding the idealistic component of M.A. Vrubel's work, i.e. in the field of his iconographic poetics. The visual myth-making of the artist, who drew on authentic spiritual prototypes, defined the leading role of Vrubel not only in Russian Symbolism and Modernism, but also in Modernism as a whole. The linking of the biographical aspect with M.A. Vrubel's poetic thinking, examined through the prism of “pure art”, i.e. in the context of the idea of the legitimacy of the independent existence of the self-contained reality of the work, can give entirely new accents of understanding the deep origins and potential meanings of the artist's work at the present stage of development of art history.

Aesthetics and Cultural Studies

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Knight
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Left ◽  
Audience Response ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
Youth Subcultures ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Second Phases ◽  
The Individual

Cultural studies in its first and second phases was an avowedly political undertaking, clearly associated with the British New Left as well as with Marxist social and political philosophies. By the 1970s and 1980s, Birmingham-style cultural studies was producing work on subjects such as ideology, language, discourse and textuality, the role of police, youth subcultures, and audience response to popular and mass cultural texts. The third phase of cultural studies, roughly from the late 1980s to the present and especially in its ‘international’ tendencies, moves away from a commitment to Marxism — especially from a commitment to Marxist political economy — and focuses increasingly on what Douglas Kellner describes as a ‘postmodern problematic’ dealing with ‘pleasure, consumption, and the individual construction of identities’.

scholarly journals Technological Determinism Goes Aloft: Notes on the Human – Machine Issue in Outer Space Exploration

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
Lika Rodin
Keyword(s):  
Space Exploration ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
National Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
Manned Space ◽  
The Individual

The future of space exploration is unimaginable without broadening the role of technology. Already, the necessity of manned space expeditions is becoming increasingly problematized. This study looks at the role of technology and human – machine relationships unfolding within national space programs through the lens of the 'soft' version of technological determinism suggested by Albert Borgmann. This theoretical tradition recognizes, without neglecting human agency, the shaping effect of technology on human organization, prosperity and actions as well as on individuals' relationships with the self and other. The commodification of technology – economic and ethical – is viewed to be the effects of technological expansion. Ethical commodification is characterized by disattachment of the individual from the natural surrounding and from the self. In the field of space exploration, ethical commodification is associated with the process of automation that developed differently in distinctive national contexts. Thus, if the history of American spaceflight is characterized by the initial struggle against automation, seen to be a means of disempowering astronauts as a professional group, the Russian space program favoured automation from the very beginning. In both contexts, however, automation eventually established itself and continues to shape contemporary perceptions on spaceflight. The accumulated experiences of man-machine interactions are useful for understanding ethical commodification as a social phenomenon. Drawing on the autobiographical narratives of Soviet / Russian cosmonauts, I specify the ways in which ethical commodification of hardware and software manifested itself in spaceflight and how it could be diverted. In conclusion, a perspective that resists alienation is suggested for the enterprise of space exploration at large.

scholarly journals Att Skapa Berättelsen Och Sig Själv

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Magdalena Żmuda-Trzebiatowska
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Collective Experience

Abstract The article’s aim is to discuss the Swedish autobiographical novel Huset vid Flon by Kjell Johansson as an example of the self-conscious narration (in Wayne C. Booth’s understanding). The grown-up narrator, who admits to being a professional writer, presents a retrospective of his childhood on Stockholm suburbs in the 1940s and 50s. He constructs his narration before the reader’s eyes, involves him/her in a dialogue, explains the employed narrative devices and plays the role of a guide through a no longer existing world. He is also an insightful and at times ironic commentator of the reality. For him organising the memories is above all a quest for his own identity. This “telling stories of oneself”, which can be viewed in a light of Paul Ricoeur’s narrative identity, is also strongly embedded in a collective experience of growing up in the Swedish welfare state.

scholarly journals The Contrasting Role of Water and Acid Within Organic Phase Amphiphile Aggregation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biswajit Sadhu ◽  
Aurora E. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Metal Ion ◽  
Water Clusters ◽  
Preferential Solvation ◽  
Water Concentration ◽  
The Self ◽  
Acid Extraction ◽  
Large Water ◽  
The Individual

The self-assembly of amphiphiles is often modified by the presence of co-solutes and significant study has examined this behavior in aqueous systems. Much less is known about the role of polar co-solutes upon amphiphile aggregation within non-polar media, however such conditions are relevant to a variety of industrial processes - not the least of which are separations systems like those found in liquid-liquid extraction (LLE). Therein, surface active amphiphiles extract water, acid, and other solutes of interest. Intriguing increases to amphiphile aggregates have been experimentally observed upon water and acid extraction, however a myriad of competitive intermolecular interactions have thus far prevented a fundamental understanding of the individual and dual role of these solutes upon amphiphile self-assembly. Toward this end, this work employs classical molecular dynamics and graph theory analyses to deconstruct the individual affects of water and nitric acid upon the self-assembly of N,N,N',N'-tetraoctyl-3-oxapentanediamide (TODGA), a prevalent amphiphile extractant used in metal ion separations. In the absence of acid, and at low water concentration, H2O is found to promote local dimer and trimer formation of TODGA, however as [H2O]org increases, the preferential solvation of water with itself causes the formation of large water clusters that serve to link large TODGA clusters on the periphery (causing extended aggregation). Addition of HNO3 to the humid solutions disrupts the water hydrogen bond network and inhibits the formation of large water clusters - thus preventing extended aggregation behavior. We rationalize the prior experimental observations as being attributed primarily to the role of water in the self-assembly of TODGA rather than co-extracted HNO3, thus providing valuable new insight into the means by which extractant aggregation can be tuned within LLE processes. In addition, this work differentiates the role of polar solutes upon amphiphile self-assembly via their individual hydrogen bonding capabilities and competitive interactions that disrupt preferred solvation environments.

scholarly journals MAIN THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE PROBLEM OF SELF-EFFICIENCY OF A SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIALIST’S INDIVIDUALITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-195
Author(s):  
Nataliya Onopriyenko-Kapustina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Psychological Training ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The article presents the results of theoretical analysis of scientific approaches to the self-efficacy problem study of the individual in general and the social services specialist, in particular. The research stated the ambiguity of the interpretation of the concept of “self-efficacy” and, at the same time, the role of self-efficacy in successful professional activity. We identified the main approaches to the study of the self-efficacy problem study of the individual and related concepts, which are: socio-cognitive psychoanalytic behavioural; personal and activity; humanistic; subjective; effective; competence; resource, acmeological approach, etc. We proposed the acmeological approach as a basis in the context of the study of the self-efficacy problems, and its development, within which self-efficacy should be considered as an essential factor in achieving professional social specialists’ “acme”. It is shown that self-efficacy should be studied because of the possibility of its development in specially organized psychological training and socio-psychological support of specialists’ self-efficacy, their beliefs, belief in their ability to implement activities, evaluation of their effectiveness and expectations for self-realization, and professional activity.

scholarly journals The Role of the Title in the Characterization of the Hero in G.I. Gazdanov’s Story "Black Swans"

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Anastasia Kukhtenkova
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Black Swans ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Style ◽  
Black Color

The article deals with the role of the heading as a symbol in the characterization of the hero of the story by Gazdanov «Black Swans". The author of the article describes the actualization of the heading and the character's characteristics by taking into account the artistic psychologism. The frequency of repetition of the heading close to the end of the text is one of the individual style features of the writer's linguopoetics ("The Flight", "The Bombay", "The Iron Lord", etc.). There is a comparison between the vocabulary and text fields of the heading associative stimulus presented in the article. The psychological autobiography of the story hero is depicted by the textual interaction of the components of the heading. The black color corresponds to the refugee implication, suicide and uniqueness of the main character. The image of swans denotes Pavlov's longing for freedom, for the search of  illusions as an attempt to get rid of courageous loneliness, as well as his desire to unravel the existential mystery. The use of the syntactic lexeme "black swans" denotes the intertextual key message of the works by Gazdanov - that is "the inner journey", which is associated with the confessional narrative and the self-analysis of the hero-narrator

scholarly journals Role of dynamic group therapy in psychiatry

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Individual Therapy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opposite Position ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Poor Relation ◽  
Extreme View

Group psychotherapy is one of the most widely practised treatment methods in psychiatry, with an extensive literature, but it has long been regarded as the poor relation to individual therapy. Nineteenth-century ideas about the primacy of the individual, taken up by psychoanalysis, continue to dominate Western culture. Mrs Thatcher's famous remark “I don't believe in society. There is no such thing, only individual people, and there are families” (Women's Own, 31 October 1987) typifies the extreme view in which the self and the individual's needs are paramount and are set above those of the group. Foulkes in the 1950s had put forward the opposite position, arguing that there is no such thing as an individual that exists apart from and outside the social (Foulkes, 1948; Foulkes & Anthony, 1957).

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