Author: Shawn T. WahlPublisher:
ISBN: 9781465217523
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Culture Care
Author: Makoto FujimuraPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830891110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
We all have a responsibility to care for culture. Artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. This is a book for artists and all "creative catalysts" who understand how much the culture we all share affects human thriving today and shapes the generations to come.
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
Author: Michael CarrithersPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845459245
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The contributors bring expertise from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the volume’s wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.
Culture Your Life
Author: Louise Kane BuckleyPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149313244X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
By truly using food as medicine I have seen massive changes in my own body in a short space of time, so I am very excited to share, learn and grow with you today. I have been writing and teaching courses on Nutrition for all ages and goals for years. I have huge passion for educating people to take responsibility for their choices and ability to heal themselves. Fermentation classes are by far among my favourite ones to teach. I also run my own company Loula Natural which is a Naturopathic Practice, I write my blog and for online magazines, and have a series of books to run alongside the subjects I teach. At the same time I am raising my two young kids and running a household! As you can imagine, its a case of constantly juggling my time and since I am only human I am also constantly aware of my own health. As a result, I love easy ways to stay on top of things.
Culture and Subjective Well-Being
Author: Edward DienerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262541466
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB). A potential problem in studying SWB across societies is that of cultural relativism: if societies have different values, the members of those societies will use different criteria in evaluating the success of their society. By examining, however, such aspects of SWB as whether people believe they are living correctly, whether they enjoy their lives, and whether others important to them believe they are living well, SWB can represent the degree to which people in a society are achieving the values they hold dear. The contributors analyze SWB in relation to money, age, gender, democracy, and other factors. Among the interesting findings is that although wealthy nations are on average happier than poor ones, people do not get happier as a wealthy nation grows wealthier.
Culture and Everyday Life
Author: David InglisPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415319263
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This lively and accessible new book reconsiders the different views as to what 'culture' is, how it operates, and how it relates to other aspects of the human (and non-human) world.
Culture and Everyday Life
Author: Andy BennettPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446225879
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
′Bennett provides a well organized, very readable and interesting discussion of a number of significant everyday cultural forms and I am confident student readers will find the book very valuable′ - Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice. Bennett begins by summarising and situating - in everyday settings - the key theoretical models applied in the study of existing cultural practices. This entails a systematic study of how academic thinking about mass culture has changed, from critical accounts of early mass cultural theorists to radical postmodernist critiques of mass cultural accounts and to ′the cultural turn′, which explored how various social identities are culturally constructed. Following this are themed chapters that cover a particular aspect of late modern culture, such as media, music, fashion, tourism and counter-cultural ideologies and movements. In each case a comprehensive literature review is provided and its theoretical and empirical relevance to our understanding of the relationship between culture and everyday life in contemporary society is explained. Lucid, meticulous and illustrated with a host of examples, this is a superb text for teaching and research in the Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies.
Culture as Weapon
Author: Nato ThompsonPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612195741
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the tools are more sophisticated than ever, the onslaught more relentless. In Culture as Weapon, acclaimed curator and critic Nato Thompson reveals how institutions use art and culture to ensure profits and constrain dissent--and shows us that there are alternatives. An eye-opening account of the way advertising, media, and politics work today, Culture as Weapon offers a radically new way of looking at our world.
Cars and Culture
Author: Rudi VoltiPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883996
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A succinct yet comprehensive history, Cars and Culture highlights the technical changes that altered the appearance and performance of automobiles, along with the myriad forces that have shaped the car's development.
Culture and Modern Life
Author: David Ricky MatsumotoPublisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Adjustment (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Matsumoto's book is designed to help students appreciate how cultural factors moderate psychological processes and how the viewpoint of one's own culture can distort one's interpretation of the behavior of people from other cultures. At the same time, the book stresses thata behavioral phenomena are characterized by both cross-cultural similarities and differences. Students will thoroughly examine the cultural similarities and differences in psychology, communicaation, work, health, and more. Culture and Modern Life parallels Weiten and Lloyd's PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO MODERN LIFE and is available to students in a discount bundle.
