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1964 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-624
Author(s):  
Yasumasa Kuroda
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
National Character ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Statistical Mathematics ◽  
National University ◽  
Japanese National Character

scholarly journals Reframing Aging in Contemporary Politics: Building Momentum

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 681-681
Author(s):  
Patricia D'Antonio
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Older People ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Perceptions Of Aging ◽  
The Many ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Abstract Changing American culture is challenging and changing attitudes and behaviors around the universal experience of aging especially so. Unless the field of advocates who care about aging issues cultivates a more visible, more informed conversation on older people, it will remain difficult to advance the systemic changes needed to adjust to a society with increased and increasing longevity. Advocates will need to be vigilant to avoid cueing negative attitudes towards aging and aging policies. The Reframing Aging Initiative is a long-term, social change endeavor designed to improve the public’s understanding of what aging means and the many contributions older people bring to society. Using evidence-based research, the initiative seeks to teach advocates how to tell an effective story about aging that will promote positive perceptions of aging and reduce ageism. The time to change the conversation is now.

Trust and National Character: Japanese Sense of Trust, Cross-National and Longitudinal Surveys

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 417-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryozo Yoshino
Keyword(s):  
National Character ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Longitudinal Surveys ◽  
Response Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Japanese National Character ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThis paper overviews people's sense of trust as it is reflected in the response data of questionnaire surveys. I will study the variability of people's trust systems in order to explore the stability over time and the change due to the short-term changes of economic and political conditions. To begin with, I will explain briefly the history of our longitudinal and cross-national survey on national character. Secondly, I will summarize some aspects of people's sense of trust in our longitudinal survey of Japanese national character. Thirdly, I will present cross-national comparative analysis of trust in our seven-country survey and our East Asia survey. Fourthly, I will consider the acculturation of the Japanese immigrants in Brazil, Hawaii, and the West Coast of USA. Finally, I will provide some comments on cross-national scaling of trust for our future research.

Discourse at the Inauguration of the National University (September 22, 1910)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justo Sierra
Keyword(s):  
National Character ◽  
National Education ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Sufficient Power ◽  
National University ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
The University

This chapter translates an address by Justo Sierra, in which he suggests that many of Mexico’s problems are problems with national education: “The University, then, will have sufficient power to coordinate the guiding principles of national character.” Like Antonio Caso, he believes that “[t]‌o cultivate wills in order to harvest egoists would be the bankruptcy of pedagogy.” For Sierra, one’s education should be grounded in or be attentive to national circumstances: “No, the University is not a person destined never to turn its eyes away from the telescope or microscope even if the nation is falling apart around it.” And he suggests that the production of knowledge should be affirmative and original. Finally, despite his earlier sympathy with positivism, which dismisses speculative metaphysics as a source of knowledge, Sierra suggests that the success of national education requires reintroducing philosophy or metaphysics.

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