“We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It!”

Pride Parades ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine McFarland Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Pride Parades ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
Inside Out

Chapter Three describes the similarities and differences among contemporary Pride parades. While varying greatly in size and local cultural climate, Pride parades have in common the messages of visibility, support, and celebration of LGBT identity. As a cultural protest, Pride parades deliver these new cultural meanings through both the words of participants' signs and slogans and their actions of cheering, dancing, and staging such a parade. The promotion of these meanings are mainly outside-in as opposed to an inside-out model of cultural change. By sharing common messages, signals and symbols, the celebrations act as expressions of a shared cultural movement and solidarity.

“Pride Comes in Many Colors”

Pride Parades ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine McFarland Bruce
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Pride Parades ◽  
Cultural Code

Chapter Four continues the comparison of contemporary Pride parades from the previous chapter, focusing on the differences between the various expressions of Pride across the United States. While pursuing a common model of cultural change, each parade promotes visibility, support, and celebration using symbols and messages adapted to their local cultural contexts. When the level of tolerance varies, so too does the expression of identities defying the heteronormative cultural code. Additionally, through their variation Pride parades deal differently with the three identified issues – visibility, support, celebration - that began in the phenomenon’s early years. With still unsettled debates, Pride parades wrestle with provocative displays, commercialization, and maintaining a sense of purpose amid the festivity.

Stratigraphy and Seriation

1961 ◽  
Vol 26 (3Part1) ◽  
pp. 324-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Howland Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gradual Change ◽  
Principle Of Superposition ◽  
General Law ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Cultural Content

AbstractStratigraphic interpretation rests on two principles: the principle of superposition and the principle that deposition units can be identified by cultural content. The sequence of deposition units derived from a case of superposition may not give a true cultural sequence if mixing, filling, or collecting has affected the cultural contents of the units. There are two kinds of seriation: evolutionary seriation, done on the basis of an assumed general law of cultural development, and similary seriation, done on the basis of similarities and differences in objects or deposition units compared. Similiary seriation assumes only that cultural change is normally gradual. Of the two kinds of seriation, only similiary seriation can give credible results. Some evidence of archaeological associations is necessary to control the possibility of non-gradual change resulting from sudden outside influence or archaism. If the conditions for success can be met, either stratigraphy or seriation can provide a credible sequence. Each method provides a check on the other; the most credible results are achieved by combining the two.

A Call to Action: The Need for a Cultural Psychological Approach to Discrimination on the Basis of Skin Color in Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1131-1139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim Bettache
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Asian Continent ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Fair Skin

A strong preference for fair skin appears to be the norm across the Asian continent and may pervade many aspects of social life. Yet scholarly work on this ubiquitous phenomenon is rare within psychological science. This article is a call for a psychological investigation into colorism in Asia. I argue that colorism has firm systemic roots as a result of the sociohistorical trajectories of different Asian societies that have attached cultural meanings to skin color. Consequently, similarities and differences in such trajectories may account for variability in the expression of colorism within contemporary Asian societies. Directions for a cultural psychological approach to colorism are suggested.

Shi’r

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Luce
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Culture War ◽  
Arab State ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Monthly Journal ◽  
Cultural Movement

The journal, Shi’r (Poetry 1957–70) was established in Beirut by Yūsuf al-Khāl and the poet theorist Adunis to save poetry from politics. It emerged as a professional avant-garde monthly journal with a core group of young poets dedicated to poetry and poetic studies. The journal supported poetic experimentation. Shi’r advocated for the prose poem as a way to spark cultural change, believing that innovative efforts were necessary to intellectually modernize the Arab World. Shi’r rebelled against the ‘committed literature’ (al-adab al-multazim) movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The circle believed this to be ‘a prostitution of art’ to political causes and ideologies. Shi’r was perceived as a subversive cultural movement. It was banned in a number of countries, accused of supporting a culture war against Arab nationalism, and of being funded by the CIA and French intelligence, inter alia. Shi’r’s poets were more concerned with the post-colonial Arab ‘state of being’ than reforming or overthrowing states. The Shi’r poets adopted the concept of ru’iya or vision theorized in 1959 by Adunis (Ali Ahmad Said) who asserted that modern poetry possessed a mystical or intuitive knowledge that allowed the poet to see beyond. The intention was to liberate Arab consciousness and to liberate it from the qasidah using the Arabic language, to free one’s thinking.

Memorializing History in The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore

Moreana ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (Number 174) (2) ◽  
pp. 55-96
Author(s):  
Arthur F. Kinney
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
May Day ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Litmus Test

Tracing the various playtexts of Sir Thomas Moore, a play of the 1590s written partly by Shakespeare, reveals differing perspectives on the cause and significance of Evil May Day and thus serves as a litmus test on its various cultural meanings and a history of cultural change. Under a strongly Protestant regime, the Catholic Thomas More is seen heroically as an authority who puts down protest and uprisings, a champion of peace. From another viewpoint, he is the humanist interested in social justice. After the threat of the Spanish Armada, however, attention turned to the rioters as alien workers displacing natives ones. To make More more acceptable, he was turned into a man of wit and of theatricality, his Catholicism parodied. Together, such varied responses suggest the rich complexity of a play which deserves to be better known.

scholarly journals Numerical code in the phraseological picture of the world of various linguistic cultures: experience of comparative analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Zh.B. Zhauynshiyeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Numerical Code ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Comparative Study

The article deals with numerical values in the phraseological picture of the world of various linguistic cultures. Based on a comparative analysis of symbolic meanings of stable combinations of Kazakh, Russian, German, Spanish and English, the description of their culturally determined semantics is carried out. Special attention is paid to the symbolism of the prototypical numbers seven, forty, nine, which are part of many phraseological units and explicate cultural meanings that go back to the key values of folk philosophy. The authors conclude that the comparative study of numbers provides information about culturally determined quantitative criteria, allows us to determine the similarities and differences of numerical values in different linguistic cultures.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Proverbs Using Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Qiling Wu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
Insight Into

The current study investigates the similarities and differences between ‘equivalent’ proverbs in English and Chinese. It integrates natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) into a semantic and pragmatic analysis to explain differences in proverbs as cultural linguistic artifacts. In this study, NSM has enabled the cultural meanings behind the artifacts to be brought into stark contrast for careful qualitative discourse analysis. The findings of the study indicate that it is not only worthwhile but also practical to carefully examine English and Chinese proverb pairs, as their respective meanings may differ, offering unique insight into certain cultural factors. There is much potential for further research on linguistic cultural indicators such as proverbs, song lyrics, and idioms.

Anthropology in Consumer Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryann McCabe ◽  
Rita Denny
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Consumer Research ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Consumption Practices

Consumer research, an emergent field in applied anthropology, examines relationships between producers and consumers as mediated by the marketplace. The anthropological purpose of consumer research is to discover cultural meanings of products and services in people’s everyday lives and to identify societal practices and discourses that inform and perform these meanings. While consumer research is inspired by and draws on traditional anthropological theory, it has also made theoretical contributions to anthropology, including consumption practices as crafting identity, consumption activities generating and maintaining social relationships, and the transformative power of consumer goods instigating cultural change. Anthropologists engaged in consumer research work in three primary areas: (1) market-making to assist organizations in defining the environments in which they operate; (2) branding to differentiate an organization’s products and services from those of competitors by attaching to the brand a symbolic meaning from the lived experience of consumers; and (3) innovation to guide business growth by analyzing consumer practices, as well as client and other stakeholder suppositions about the nature of the problem to be solved. Anthropologists in consumer research not only represent consumer voices but are also mediators of stakeholder interests. Change occurs at minimal scale by reframing problems for clients and affecting how clients address target audiences through marketing and advertising strategies, communications, or innovation; and at broader scale, by simultaneously contesting cultural ideologies (e.g., gender, personhood, ethnicity) perpetuated by business practices.

Deconstructing a global commodity: Coffee, culture, and consumption in Japan

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Grinshpun
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
World Market ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Consumer Experience ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Coffee Shops

Since their entry to Japan in the latter half of the 19th century, coffee and coffee shops have been closely linked to the economic, political, and socio-cultural change undergone by the Japanese society. The cafés themselves have gone through numerous transformations in order to address the various social needs of their patrons. Today, coffee shops occupy a significant niche in the Japanese urban lifestyle. However, the cultural ‘baggage' of coffee as a foreign commodity still plays a central role in generating its consumer appeal. Coffee is a global commodity whose value on the world market is surpassed only by oil. Moreover, due to its peculiar historical background, it became a beverage charged with a wide range of cultural meanings; tracing these meanings in different contexts can shed light on the way cultural commodities ‘behave' in the globalized world. In order to examine the niche that coffee occupies in the Japanese consumption scene, I will analyze the manner in which representations of coffee are constructed and translated into a consumer experience. Through the case of coffee in Japan I will try to demonstrate the process of ‘movement of culture', whereby the relevance of a foreign commodity in the local context is determined by the complex interplay between two culturally engineered binary entities of ‘global' and ‘local', ‘foreign' and ‘native'.

Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 7

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Volume 7 of the Advances in Culture and Psychology series showcases cutting-edge contributions from internationally renowned culture scholars who span the discipline of culture and psychology and represent diversity in the theory and study of culture within psychology. In the first chapter, Ronald F. Inglehart presents data from countries containing over 90% of the world’s population, demonstrating that in recent decades, rising levels of economic and physical security have been reshaping human values and motivations and thereby transforming societies. In the next chapter, Zoltán Kövecses illustrates how conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) functions as a link between culture and cognition. In her chapter on cultural-developmental approaches to moral psychology, Lene Arnett Jenssen lays out life course “templates” for the three Ethics of Autonomy, Community, and Divinity. Thomas S. Weisner next illustrates how ecological theory links structural and environmental conditions to the cultural learning environments of children and the everyday routines and activities that shape the behavior and minds of children. Miriam Erez then describes research on cross-cultural similarities and differences in the area of work motivation and multicultural teams. Finally, Pawel Boski advances the concept of the cultural experiment and how it can illuminate how individuals react with resistance or tolerance when faced with cultural change.

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