scholarly journals Supporting the social triad. A commentary on “Keeping culture in mind: A systematic review and initial conceptualization of mentalizing from a cross‐cultural perspective”

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Fonagy ◽  
Chloe Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
The Social

The social and personal functions of music in cross-cultural perspective

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

Music's uses and contexts are so many and so various that the task of cataloguing its functions is daunting: how can we make sense of this diversity? These functions appear to range from the individual (music can affect the way we feel and the way we manage our lives) to the social (it can facilitate the coordination of large numbers of people and help to forge a sense of group identity). This article argues that musical behaviour covers a vast middle ground in which relationships between self and other or between the individual and the collective are played out. It surveys some of the extant literature on music's functions – referring to literature from ethnomusicology, anthropology, musicology, psychology, and sociology, and discussing a wide variety of musical contexts from around the world – and develops an argument emphasizing music's role in the management of relationships between self and other.

Ren and Causal Efficacy: Confucians and Whitehead on the Social Role of Symbolism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyo-Dong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Causal Efficacy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
The Subject

Confucians in East Asia have always dreamed of holding human communities together and constructing well-functioning polities in and through the binding and harmonizing power of rituals. Underlying their trust in the power of rituals is the notion that rituals constitute symbolic articulation and enchancement of our affective responses to the conditions of embodied relationality and historicity in which we always already find ourselves. This Confucian theory of rituals resonates with Whitehead’s theory of symbolism, insofar as the latter advances a primordially relational ontology of the subject by highlighting the hitherto neglected epistemological notion of perception in the mode of causal efficacy. As such, the Confucian theory of rituals offers a fresh cross-cultural perspective to understand Whitehead’s implied critique of the modern liberal social theories that are based on a view of human beings as atomized individuals who rationally consent to enter society.

A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Developmental Psychology

1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustav Jahoda
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
First World ◽  
Infant Behaviour

The burden of the argument put forward in this paper is that in spite of a considerable expansion of cross-cultural development studies over the past two decades, developmental psychology as a whole remains unduly parochial. Since most of its theories originate in the first world, one of the main functions of cross-cultural work is to assess the range of their applicability across the globe. After briefly illustrating this theme in relation to infant behaviour, research and theories dealing with cognitive development in childhood and adolescence are reviewed in more detail. Piagetians focusing on supposedly universal processes appeared at one time sharply opposed to followers of Vygotsky concentrating on specific context-bound learning. Cross-cultural work has resulted in a convergence such that what divides them now is mainly a difference of emphasis, both sides accepting forms of 'local constructivism'. Important contributions from workers outside these major traditions are outlined and a shift away from exclusive concern with learning to understand the physical, and towards the social world is noted. In conclusion, some evidence is mentioned indicating that cultural factors powerfully affect emotional as well as cognitive development and it is suggested that there is a need to devote more effort in that direction.

The Impact of Culture and Social Distance on Humor Appreciation, Sharing, and Production

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062110659
Author(s):  
Yi Cao ◽  
Yubo Hou ◽  
Zhiwen Dong ◽  
Li-Jun Ji
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Distance Effect ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Humor Appreciation ◽  
Production Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
The Impact

Building on the benign violation theory and self-construal theory, we conducted four studies to examine how culture and social distance would influence humor appreciation, sharing, and production. Study 1 found that Chinese participants appreciated and intended to share a joke involving distant others more than that involving close others. They also generated funnier titles for a joke involving distant others than close others. Studies 2a and 2b compared Chinese and Americans using various types of jokes, replicating the social distance effect among Chinese but finding little effect of social distance among Americans. In Study 3, interdependence-primed participants generated more humorous titles for a joke involving distant than close others, whereas independence-primed participants showed no effect of social distance. The research provides further support to the benign violation theory from a cultural perspective and has important implications for cross-cultural communications.

Principals leading successful organisational change

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Jones ◽  
Alma Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Professional Collaboration ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Improved Outcomes ◽  
The Social

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the way in which principals in different countries are securing successful organisational change through systematically building social capital. It argues that how a school works as a cohesive unit and how people collaborates will ultimately define organisational performance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws upon the international literature to explore how principals are building the social capital for organisational improvement but is not a review of the literature. It adopts a cross-cultural perspective and explores collective capacity building for organisational improvement. Findings – This paper concludes that “disciplined” professional collaboration is an important way in which principals can create and sustain the social capital for organisational change. Originality/value – The paper is a conceptual piece that proposes that creating social capital, rather than individual or professional capital, is now an essential task for principals seeking successful organisational change and improved outcomes. It explores the idea of “disciplined collaboration” as a methodology for building social capital in a rigorous, effective and sustainable way.

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