entangled with their historical and cultural contexts, sociological theories come into existence and try to explain social phenomena of their own society. hence, practitioners of other milieus with different accumulation of cultural traits must be aware of how they use non-native theories. a wide range of iranian sociological investigations, unfortunately, take benefit of western social scienti...

Incorporating culture into an expanded theory of evolution will provide the foundation for a universal account of human diversity. Two requirements must be met. The first is to see learning as an extension of the processes of evolution. The second is to understand that there are specific components of human culture, viz. higher order knowledge structures and social constructions, which give ris...

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OF THE DISSERTATION Cultural Consensus Theory on Network Structures By Kalin Alak Agrawal Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences University of California, Irvine, 2015 Professor William H. Batchelder, Chair Cultural Consensus Theory (CCT) consists of cognitive models for aggregating the responses of informants to test items about some domain of their shared cultural knowledge....

MOOCs attract learners from various cultural backgrounds with differing educational beliefs and learning preferences. Research has long acknowledged that culture has an impact on the adoption and use of information technology. Cultural differences can cause conflicts, especially when learners provide each other with feedback during the peer assessment process. With this paper, we use a design s...

The hybrid aspect of cultures has been on the agenda of cultural and social studies as well as the arts for several years. From the perspective of the semiotician, cultures will necessarily be in continuous contact with a minimum of neighbours in order to enhance cultural semiosis, i.e., to make innovation and change possible. Otherwise, isolation would be in effect and limit a culture to its o...

Consumer culture theory helps us take note of the cultural forces and dynamics in which technology consumption is entangled. It enables people to articulate the cultural processes (ideological, mythic, ritualistic, etc.) through which cultural meanings become granted to or denied to technological innovations, thus shaping the value of technologies as cultural resources sustaining consumer ident...

The purpose of this paper is to consider the relevance and consistency of socio-cultural theory to inclusive practices and the implementation of current government policy on inclusion. The policies of the NSW DET for the development of inclusive schooling will be examined. The implications of recent legislation as well as the recent initiatives such as Special Education initiative, curriculum c...

Originally published in 2003, this article presents one of the first attempts to provide a systematic summary of the new concept of cultural technique. It is, in essence, an extended checklist aimed at overcoming the textualist bias of traditional cultural theory by highlighting what is elided by this bias. On the one hand, to speak of cultural techniques redirects our attention to material and...