Adaptation: The role of social values and stress in creativity and dissociation

This article examines the historical role of marriage and wedding rituals in Vietnam, and how they have changed during Vietnam’s transition to the market. The authors focus on how changes reflect the society’s increasing dependence on the market, how this dependence impacts consumer well-being, and the resulting implications for public policy. Changes in the meanings, function, and structure of wedding ritual consumption are examined. These changes echo shifts in the national economy, social values, social relations, and gender roles in Vietnamese society during the transition. The major findings show that Vietnamese weddings are reflections of (1) the roles of wedding rituals as both antecedents and outcomes of social changes, (2) the nation’s perception and imagination of its condition relative to “modernity,” and (3) the role of China as a threatening “other” seen as impeding Vietnam’s progress toward “modernization.”

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The Role of Culture, Values and Trauma in Shaping Abnormal Bodily Experience in Migrants

International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-47852-0_4 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 37-44

Author(s):

Massimiliano Aragona

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Social Values ◽

Traumatic Experiences ◽

Bodily Experiences ◽

Different Cultures ◽

Different Levels ◽

Somatization Disorders ◽

The Way

AbstractThe way somatization is expressed—including the actual somatoform symptoms experienced—varies in different persons and in different cultures. Traumatic experiences are intertwined with cultural and social values in shaping the resulting psychopathological phenomena, including bodily experiences. Four ideal-typical cases are presented to show the different levels involved. The effects of trauma, culture and values may be pathofacilitating (creating a social context which is necessary for the experience to take place), pathogenetic (taking a causal role in the onset of the psychopathological reaction), pathoplastic (shaping the form such a psychopathological reaction takes) or pathointerpretive (different interpretation of the same symptoms depending on the patient’s beliefs). While the roles of trauma and culture were already well recognized in previous accounts, this chapter adds an exploration of the importance of values, including cultural values, in the aetiology, presentation and management of somatization disorders. As a consequence, the therapeutic approach has to be adjusted depending on the way these factors intervene in the patient’s construction of mental distress.

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The Role of Locally Produced and Digitally Animated Cartoons in the Process of Acquisition of Social Values

Handbook of Research on Children's Consumption of Digital Media - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5733-3.ch014 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 195-208

Author(s):

Pınar Özgökbel Bilis ◽

Ali Emre Bilis

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Social Values ◽

Moral Values ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Television Channel ◽

The Social ◽

The Media ◽

The Relationship

Television channels for children contain many cartoons and programs. These productions reach the viewers via both the television and the channel's official website. TRT Çocuk, broadcasting for children as a government television channel, presents many locally produced animated cartoons to the viewers. A product of the modern and digital technology, these locally produced cartoons carry importance in terms of transfer of social values. This study focuses on locally produced animation cartoons that have an important potential especially in the transfer of national and moral values. Determination of values conveyed via cartoons that bear importance in the transformation of television into an educational tool allows the media and child relationships to become visible. This work aims to examine the relationship between media and values by defining the concept of “value.” After creating a corporate frame, the study brings to light the social values conveyed in locally produced cartoons aired on TRT Çocuk television channel via qualitative analysis method.

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Postcolonial philosophy of science

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ◽

10.4324/9780415249126-q118-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sandra G. Harding

Keyword(s):

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Social Values ◽

Laws Of Nature ◽

Modern Science ◽

European Expansion ◽

Science Projects ◽

Representations Of Nature ◽

Value Neutrality ◽

Cultural Features

Are there laws of nature that today’s modern sciences are ill-designed to discover? Does the universal use of these modern sciences require their value-neutrality, or are their social values and interests an important cause of their universality? What resources for scientific knowledge can other cultures’ science projects provide? Such questions are raised by recent postcolonial global histories that focus analyses on the role of European expansion in the advance of modern science and in the decline of other cultures’ science traditions. These accounts challenge philosophers to re-evaluate unsuspected strengths in other scientific traditions and identify modern science’s borrowings from them. They also identify European cultural features that have, for better and worse, constituted modern sciences and their representations of nature and thus seek to develop more realistic and useful accounts of the values, interests, methods, universality, objectivity and rationality of science.

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Are functional, emotional and social values interrelated? A study of traditional guesthouses in Iran

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management ◽

10.1108/ijchm-03-2020-0193 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (9) ◽

pp. 2857-2880 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh ◽

Mohmmad Iranmanesh ◽

Muslim Amin ◽

Kashif Hussain ◽

Mastura Jaafar ◽

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Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Social Values ◽

Perceived Value ◽

Social Value ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

Theoretical Contribution ◽

Emotional Value ◽

Moderating Role

Purpose This study aims to examine the interrelationships between the dimensions of perceived value, including functional, emotional and social values. The mediating role of emotional value between functional and social values and satisfaction have been hypothesized and tested. In addition, this study examines the moderating role of social value for the effect of emotional value on satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach Data for this study were collected from guests staying at two traditional guesthouses in Kashan, Iran. The authors applied partial least squares structural equation modeling to analyze 316 questionnaires completed by participants and for hypotheses testing. Findings The authors found positive and direct effects of all dimensions of perceived value on satisfaction. Moreover, the results indicated positive and significant indirect effects for functional and social values on satisfaction through emotional value. The findings demonstrated positive and strong effects of functional and social values on emotional value. The results do not support a moderating role for social value on the relationship between emotional value and satisfaction. In addition, the findings showed a strong and positive effect for satisfaction on revisit intentions. Originality/value This study makes a unique theoretical contribution to the perceived value literature by investigating the interrelationships between dimensions of perceived value. Moreover, this study explores several practical implications of these findings.

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