Showing papers on "Culture change published in 1988"

Toward Culturally Sensitive Theories of Culture Change

Abstract: Existing theories of culture change in organizations generally fail to take the nature of the culture to be changed into account. It is suggested here that different cultures may change through different processes. Factors that influence the persistence of culture and the impact that organizational history has on culture change are discussed. Implications for future research are explored.

New Technology and Culture Change in Traditional Societies

Abstract: (1988). New Technology and Culture Change in Traditional Societies. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 493-498.

Women and Health: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Abstract: Preface Intrduction Variations in Traditional Life-Cycle Concerns 'Bad Blood' and the Cultural Management of Health in a Newfoundland Fishing Community When is a Midwife a Witch? A Case Study from a Modernizing Maya Village La Edad Critica: The Positive Experience of Menopause in a Small Peruvian Town The Social Significance of Elective Hysterectomy The Effects of Culture Change on Women's Health The Need for a Supportive Doula in and Increasingly Urban Worls Health and Health-Seeking Behavior of Turkish Women in Berlin The Insufficient Milk Syndrome: Biological Epidemic or Cultural Construction? Women's Suicide in Sri Lanka Women in Conflict: Stress and Urbanization in a British Mining Town Health Care Concerns Related to Stress Compadrazgo as a Protective Mechanism in Depression The Price of Power: Gender Roles and Stress-Induced Depression in Andean Ecuador Women and Stress in Brunei Women in Vietnam: The War Without and the War Within Index

Shame, Culture, and Status among the Swahili of Mombasa

Abstract: From the perspective of community life, shame's most significant attribute is its role in promoting socially desirable or, at least, acceptable modes of behavior and general qualities of being. The psychological pain actors experience when they fail or anticipate failure in living up to ideals for behavior and being exerts forces that incline them to follow the values, rules, and beliefs that are the basis of these ideals. To the extent that the values and other elements involved in

Cognitive and Social Factors in Psychological Adaptation to Acculturation Among the James Bay Cree

Abstract: How an individual adapts to culture change is a topic of increasing importance in the contemporary world. The process of urbanisation, the export of technology, the wide availability of telemedia, and the ubiquity of formal educational programmes all mean that most individuals will not live out their lives in the same cultural circumstances as those in which they were initially raised. Given that most of these influences come from outside one’s culture, we can identify the process as one of acculturation, and the problem as one of potential conflict between the changes of acculturation and the continuity of enculturation. In this statement we assume that individuals who have been raised on one culture will have developed a set of behaviours which is consistent with the cultural norms of that society (see Triandis et al., 1980, for evidence of such cultural-behavioural relationships); we further assume that breaking these relationships, by introducing new cultural norms to people with an established set of behaviour, will produce some degree of difficulty, and require some psychological adaptation.