German Ordnung

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahel Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Interpersonal Style ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
The Common ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Do So

This study aims to illustrate the intricate connections that exist between features of a certain language and underlying culture-specific conceptualizations. The analysis sheds new light on a German cultural core value, namely, Ordnung “order,” its relationship to other cultural themes, and the influence it exerts on German interpersonal style. To reach a better understanding of the German core value Ordnung “order” as it relates to other German cultural themes, we first provide an analysis of the common expressions alles (ist) in Ordnung “everything [is] in order” and Ordnung muss sein “there has to be order.” This will be followed by an analysis of the social descriptor term locker “loose.” We seek to illustrate the merits of a perspective in language and culture studies that is truly culture-internal and can thus facilitate cross-cultural understanding, and we do so by applying the principles of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to semantic and ethnopragmatic description.

The Two Cultures Problem

1998 ◽  
pp. 266-274
Author(s):  
Sheldon Richmond
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
The Common ◽  
Different Cultures

Many post World War II thinkers have been perplexed by the problem of how or even whether people from different cultures can understand each other. The problem arose when we started to think of culture as formative of language and thought. The common assumptions of most theorists of language are that language is fundamental to thinking and culture; and language, thought, culture or humanity is a natural product of biological evolution. Karl Popper and Michael Polanyi-seen as diametrically opposed-both independently criticize these assumptions and provide alternative theories of humanity (i.e. culture, thinking, and language) whereby cross-cultural understanding is a real problem that can be broached through engaging in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. So, though language and culture creates hurdles for achieving cross-cultural understanding, the pursuit of science transcends the limitations of culture.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF ENDOCRINE RESPONSE TO PERCEIVED DIFFERENCE IN CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTIONS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Woolford-Hunt ◽  
Marlene Murray ◽  
Tevni Guerra ◽  
Kristina Beenken-Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Endocrine Response ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Education Psychology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Do So ◽  
Cultural Interactions

We live in a world where awareness of ethnic and cultural diversity is an ever increasing reality. Business and education turn to the social sciences to inform them about how to manage and optimize cross-cultural interactions. Although much research has been done on the impact of cross-cultural interactions on a wide range of variables, one less researched area is the endocrine response to cross-cultural interactions. In this study we set out to investigate the endocrine response to cross cultural interactions and the impact of these interactions on perceived differences. To do so we measured the pre and post levels of the stress hormone cortisol of individuals communicating in dyads for 15 minutes. Results showed a significant impact of ethnic interaction on perceived differences and cortisol levels. Practical implications of these findings could have application in the areas of education, psychology, business and human relations in general. Implications for further research are discussed.

scholarly journals Ethical subjectification and search engines: ethics reconsidered

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Tobias Blanke
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ethical Critique ◽  
Do So

This article will explore the relation of search engines to the freedom they invoke in human subjects. Away from questions about the social impact of search engines and their ethical use, it shall investigate the influence of search engines on ethical subjectifications. The article will criticise the common critique that search engines should only deliver neutral and objective results to their users, where ‘neutral’ and ‘objective’ are defined as anti-subjective. On the contrary, it will argue that search engines are designed to deliver subjective results. A possible ethical critique starts therefore where they fail to do so. Due to reasons immanent to the technology, search engines are never subjective enough in their relevance decisions. Their results collide at the same time with what their users expect them to deliver. The article will show that, far from being a disadvantage, this disagreement between the users’ expectations and the search engines results is what triggers an ethical subjectification.

Understanding others requires shared concepts

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wierzbicka
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Common ◽  
Current Anthropology ◽  
Basic Prerequisite

“It is a noble task to try to understand others, and to have them understand you (…) but it is never an easy one”, says Everett (p. 327). This paper argues that a basic prerequisite for understanding others (and also for having them understand you) is to have some shared concepts on which this understanding can build. If speakers of different languages didn’t share some concepts to begin with then cross-cultural understanding would not be possible even with the best of will on all sides. Current Anthropology For example, Everett claims that Pirahã has no word for “mother”, no words for “before’ and “after”, no words for “one”, “two” and “all” and no words comparable to ‘think” and “want”. These claims are based, I believe, on faulty semantic analysis, and in particular, on a determination not to recognize polysemy under any circumstances. As I see it, at many points this stance makes nonsense of Everett’s own data and distorts the conceptual world of the Pirahã. Since he does not want to recognize the existence of any shared concepts, Everett is also not prepared to address the question of a culture-neutral metalanguage in which Pirahã and English conceptual categories could be compared. This often leads him to imposing cultural categories of English (such as “evidence”, “tolerance” and “parent”) on the conceptual world of the Pirahã. The result is a combination of exoticism and Anglocentrism which doesn’t do justice to Everett’s long and intimate engagement with the Pirahã people and their language. Sadly, it blinds him to what Franz Boas called “the psychic unity of mankind”, reflected in the common semantic features of human languages and fully compatible with the cultural shaping of their lexicons and grammars.

scholarly journals Adult-child relations in neoliberal times: insights from a dialogue across childhood and parenting culture studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Rosen ◽  
Charlotte Faircloth
Keyword(s):  
Adult Child ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Childhood Parenting ◽  
Do So

In this introductory article for the special issue ‘Childhood, Parenting Culture and Adult-Child Relations in Global Perspectives’, we provide an overview of our fields of study (childhood studies and parenting culture studies) by placing them in dialogue. We do so as a basis for drawing out themes emerging from the special issue, in order to explore potential synergies and open broader debates. We begin by tracing moves towards more relational approaches in the social sciences indicating their epistemological and methodological implications. Relational thinking provides a basis for countering antagonistic positionings of children and adults, allowing for circulations of childhood and parenting cultures to be interrogated in relation to new and enduring forms of inequity and changing state-family-capital relations. We suggest that this complicates existing conceptualisations of neoliberalisation while drawing attention to the need for further interrogation of the transnational nature of adult-child relations.

scholarly journals Culorile Noului Val Românesc. Simbolism și semnificații psihologice / The Colors of the Romanian New Wave. Symbolism and psychological significance

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-145
Author(s):  
Sorin Octav Candel
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychological Significance ◽  
The Common ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Do So

Recent Romanian films continue to be appreciated by critics and to receive important international awards. This, along with a series of common techniques and themes, led to the emergence of the term "New Romanian Wave", a term assumed by some critics and directors and rejected by others. In this article, I aim to check if the use of colors is a technique that characterizes the films reunited under this umbrella term. In order to do so, I analyzed five films from different years but overall accepted as part of the New Wave. These are Marilena from P7, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, Best intentions, Child’s Pose and Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter. I was interested in discovering the symbols associated with each color, while also emphasizing their psychological meaning. Another goal was to check if and how the chromatic aspects were related to the social reality presented in each movie. Finally, I presented the common features of the films and the differences between them.

This Is the Time

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-171
Author(s):  
Yael Tamir
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Public Morality ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Economic Balance ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So

This chapter argues that national sentiments should be used to induce a readiness to rebuild a cross-class coalition, giving individuals worthwhile reasons to work together to promote the common good, securing a more just distribution of risks and opportunities. The chapter then presents four reasons why this is the right time to do so. It also describes how state-directed actions must be taken in order to allow millennials to conduct a productive and satisfying life. By narrating the states' new task to reestablish a cross-class coalition that will promote a fairer distribution of risks and opportunities, the chapter acknowledges that some risks and opportunities are unifying — promoting social cohesiveness and undermining class tensions — while others are divisive — pulling the different classes in different directions and exacerbating social conflict. Ultimately, the chapter explicates shifting the social and economic balance in ways that will allow a more even distribution of risks and opportunities. It analyzes how such moves are likely to make a difference in the basic perceptions of public morality.

Cross-cultural Translatability: Challenges and Prospects

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang Longxi
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Different Cultures

In our quest of a new paradigm for cultural or cross-cultural understanding, we must first take a look at the very concept of a paradigm, as Thomas Kuhn expounded in his celebrated book,The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and the related concepts of incommensurability and untranslatability. Kuhn’s concepts have a significant influence on social sciences and the humanities, and they put an overemphasis on the difference and the impossibility of communication among different groups and cultures. Such a tendency has led to the fragmentization of the social fabric and the resurgence of a most tenacious tribalism. This essay launches a critique of such concepts and argues for the possibility and validity of cross-cultural understanding, and proposes world literature as an opportunity to embrace cross-cultural translatability as the first step towards a new paradigm in the study of different cultures in our globalized world today.

EXPRESS: Enabling and Cultivating Wiser Consumption: The Roles of Marketing and Public Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 074391562097540
Author(s):  
Lucie K. Ozanne ◽  
Jason Stornelli ◽  
Michael Luchs ◽  
David Mick ◽  
Julia Bayuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Do So

Contemporary consumers, societies, and ecologies face many challenges to well-being. Consumer researchers have responded with new attention to what engenders happiness and flourishing, particularly as a function of consuming more wisely. Consumer wisdom has been conceptualized as the pursuit of well-being through the application of six interrelated dimensions: Responsibility, Purpose, Flexibility, Perspective, Reasoning, and Sustainability (Luchs, Mick, and Haws 2020). However, up to now, the roles of marketing management and government policies with respect to enabling and supporting consumer wisdom have not been thoroughly and systematically considered. To do so, we adopt an integrative approach based on a range of theoretical and empirical insights from both wisdom research in the social sciences and in consumer research. We weave those insights into the stages of an expanded version of the circular economy model of the value cycle, within which we also include the traditional four Ps of the marketing mix. This approach allows us to identify how marketing practices and public policies can enable and support consumer wisdom, resulting in advancements to well-being and the common good as well as restorations to the missions and reputations of business and government.

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