Kinship and Social Archaeology

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Souvatzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Social Archaeology ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Important Concept ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Basic Matter

Kinship is a most significant organizing principle of human grouping, the basic matter of social categories in archaeological and ethnographic societies, and an important concept universally. However, its significance has rarely been adequately incorporated within archaeology’s theoretical and interpretative practice. This article aims to not only show the potential of bringing kinship into social archaeology, but also argue that archaeology can make important contributions to wider social research. Grounded on prehistoric data, spanning from the 8th to the 4th millennium bc, and drawing on cross-cultural discussions, it explores how understandings and practices of kinship might have been constructed and enacted in the first farming communities through architecture, time, material products, burials, and rituals. In doing so, the article addresses key issues of common interest in archaeology and anthropology, inviting interdisciplinary dialogue.

Key Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector Grad ◽  
Amalio Blanco ◽  
James Georgas
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Key Issues

Lying in Different Cultures

2018 ◽  
pp. 564-578
Author(s):  
Fumiko Nishimura
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
New Zealanders

This chapter reviews key issues related to lying within the framework of a cross-cultural context. First, important notions such as individualism and collectivism are discussed. Various definitions of lying are then introduced based on semantics and pragmatics frameworks (e.g., Grice’s Cooperative Principle). Next, the motivations and acceptability of lies are addressed by referring to values and assumptions found in different cultures. Finally, the chapter examines conversational data collected from Japanese people and New Zealanders. The data contain lies that are used as strategies to manage undesirable situations. The examples illustrate how people would choose different types of lie by following their own cultural protocols and preferences.

Cross-cultural application of self-in-relation theory

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chu-Li Julie Liu ◽  
Cheryl Regehr
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Taiwanese Women ◽  
Travail Social

English The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine the manner in which ‘selfinrelation’ theory applies to Asian (Taiwanese) women. The findings indicate that participants' perceptions of self and others vary based on distinctive social categories. Implications for culturally appropriate social work practice, in particular the working alliance, are addressed. French L'objectif de cette étude qualitative est d'analyser la façon dont la théorie du 'sentiment de soi en interrelation' s'applique aux femmes asiatiques de Taïwan. Les résultats indiquent que la perception des participantes à l'égard de soi ou des autres varie en fonction de diverses catégories sociales. D'après ce constat, l'auteur analyse comment adapter la pratique du travail social du'point de vue culturel et il se penche tout particulièrement sur l'alliance thérapeutique. Spanish Este estudio cualitativo examina de qué forma la teoría 'el-sí-mismo-en-relación' ('self-in-relation') es aplicable a mujeres asiáticas de Taiwán. Los resultados indican que las percepciones de las participantes acerca de sí mismas y otros varían según categorías sociales distintivas. Se examinan las implicaciones para el trabajo social, en particular para el establecimiento de la alianza trabajador-usuario.

scholarly journals A two-component framework captures cross-cultural similarities and differences in essentialist thinking about social categories

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Coley ◽  
Aidan Feeney ◽  
Yian Xu ◽  
Meredith Cohen-Pilat ◽  
R. Cole Eidson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Component Framework ◽  
The Us ◽  
Two Component ◽  
The Usa

Social essentialism is the intuitive assumption that members of social categories share underlying properties that determine category membership and cause observable regularities. We investigate cultural differences in social essentialism in the USA, Northern Ireland, and China. In Study 1, 106 undergraduates from the US and Northern Ireland rated 44 social categories on 9 scales representing distinct aspects of social essentialism. In Study 2, 157 undergraduates from the US and China rated 31 social categories on 6 scales. Results showed that a single two-component framework—describing variability in social categories with respect to perceived naturalness (objectivity, immutability) and cohesiveness (homogeneity, informativeness)—explained representations of social categories in all three cultures. Differences emerged as well; on average, American participants rated social categories as more natural and less cohesive than Northern Irish or Chinese participants. Moreover, specific social dimensions were seen as more natural in cultures where those dimensions had particular cultural salience (religion in Northern Ireland, home region in China). Together, these findings demonstrate cross-cultural similarities (a common two- component framework for representing social kinds, a common way to essentialize historically salient social dimensions) and differences (in the general extent to which social categories were perceived to be natural and cohesive) across disparate cultural groups.

CCTV's Global Outreach: Examining the Audiences of China's ‘New Voice’ on Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Gorfinkel ◽  
Sandy Joffe ◽  
Cobus Van Staden ◽  
Yu-Shan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Global Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
China Central Television

This scoping article introduces key issues surrounding the globalisation of China Central Television (CCTV), focusing on its African operations, content and reception, specifically in Kenya and South Africa. At a time when the Chinese government is seeking to enhance positive perceptions of China and China–Africa relations, and its associated media outlets are seeking to compete with other major global players like CNN and the BBC, this article takes steps towards understanding the extent to which CCTV may be succeeding in these missions. Some of the challenges identified for CCTV-Africa in our small-scale pilot study include attempting to simultaneously target ‘African’, ‘Western’ and Chinese audience groups, which may detract from its ability to appeal to specific international audiences; competition from other international and local broadcasters who already have a strong spectator base; and a lack of accessibility, awareness and sustained interest in the channel. It calls for more in-depth research into global audiences' reception of CCTV-Africa, and CCTV more generally, in order to track CCTV's brand awareness and assess whether China's global media soft power activities actually have any leverage in enhancing cross-cultural relations and international audiences' perceptions of China in Africa and the world.

scholarly journals Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea

2020 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2095983
Author(s):  
Crystal Abidin ◽  
Jin Lee ◽  
Tommaso Barbetta ◽  
Wei Shan Miao
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Impact

As COVID-19 broke out across the Asia Pacific from December 2019, media coverage on its impacts proliferated online. Among these discourses, coverage on influencers was prominent, likely as many of the issues arising from COVID-19 contingencies – such as digitalization, public messaging, and misinformation – are cornerstones of this digital economy. In response, this cross-cultural study draws on a corpus of Australian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean online news articles published between January and May 2020, to understand how local news ecologies were parsing the impacts of COVID-19 on influencers. From the coding of 150 news articles guided by Grounded Theory, this article focuses on the impact of the pandemic on influencers, and influencers’ engagements with and reactions to the pandemic. Our study of individual governments’ past engagements with their influencer industries suggest that local backstories and contexts are crucial to decipher why news angles tend to pitch particular stories on influencers.

A failure before analysis: the soup to nuts of preparing for multicountry analyses

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte M. Karam ◽  
David A. Ralston
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Empirical Relationships ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
Key Issues

Purpose A large and growing number of researchers set out to cross-culturally examine empirical relationships. The purpose of this paper is to provide researchers, who are new to multicountry investigations, a discussion of the issues that one needs to address in order to be properly prepared to begin the cross-cultural analyses of relationships. Design/methodology/approach Thus, the authors consider two uniquely different but integrally connected challenges to getting ready to conduct the relevant analyses for just such multicountry studies. The first challenge is to collect the data. The second challenge is to prepare (clean) the collected data for analysis. Accordingly, the authors divide this paper into two parts to discuss the steps involved in both for multicountry studies. Findings The authors highlight the fact that in the process of collecting, there are a number of key issues that should be kept in mind including building trust with new team members, leading the team, and determining sufficient contribution of team members for authorship. Subsequently, the authors draw the reader’s attention to the equally important, but often-overlooked, data cleaning process and the steps that constitute it. This is important because failing to take serious the quality of the data can lead to violations of assumptions and mis-estimations of parameters and effects. Originality/value This paper provides a useful guide to assist researchers who are engaged in data collection and cleaning efforts with multiple country data sets. The review of the literature indicated how truly important a guideline of this nature is, given the expanding nature of cross-cultural investigations.

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