National Identity as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon

Design as a Socio-cultural Cognitive System

Thoughts on Cultural Crisis and National Identity

At the Post-Cold War Era, western cultural hegemony came under question, and was replaced by cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is likely to result in cultural relativism, and might, as Huntington said, cause competition and clash among all civilizations, which will in turn lead to a global cultural crisis. Cultural crisis in China has changed with the period of time, and has not broken awa...

Recognizing Moral Identity as a Cultural Construct

Current research on moral identity shows that moral identity predicts moral action in Western cultures but not in non-Western cultures. The present paper argues that this may be due to the fact that the concept of moral identity is culturally biased. In order to remedy this situation, we argue that researchers should broaden their scopes of inquiry by adding a cultural lens to their studies of ...

Medical image quality as a socio-technical phenomenon.

OBJECTIVES The study aims to interpret image quality in laparoscopic surgery not only as a technical parameter but also as the result of the situation of use. METHODS Observational studies of laparoscopy in use, semi-structured and informal interviews with laparoscopists. RESULTS When medical images are digitized to exploit novel technical possibilities, image quality becomes a paramount is...

Religion as dialogical resource: a socio-cultural approach.

William James proposed a psychological study of religion examining people's religious experiences, and to see in what sense these were good for them. The recent developments of psychology of religion moved far from that initial proposition. In this paper, we propose a sociocultural perspective to religion that renews with that initial stance. After recalling Vygtotsky's core ideas, we suggest t...