Social role beliefs are important to study as they shape individual’s pattern of thinking about their roles categorized gender-specific or egalitarian in society. The present investigated cross-cultural variations individualistic versus collectivist cultures well underlying dimensions the Roles Questionnaire using two independent samples students (N = 1111). From United Kingdom, 108 men (Mage 2...

Our research explores the possibilities for factoring culture into user models, working towards cultural adaptivity in the Semantic Web. The aim is to automate the localization process by acquiring details about an individual’s cultural background. The paper shows how we have based our approach on research findings from related fields, outlining the connection between the cultural user and doma...

This article realized the Russian way of theological media education literacy and hermeneutic analysis of specific examples of Soviet anti-religious audiovisual media texts: a study of the process of interpretation of these media texts, cultural and historical factors influencing the views of the media agency / authors. The hermeneutic analysis suggests media text comprehension through comparis...

The deficiency of our present education in moulding the future generation to develop a social and natural out look is discussed in this paper. Also the author lighlights here the significance Adhyatma forms of teaching and cultural evolution takes place to that effect.

Launched in 2010, the Google Books Ngram Viewer offers a novel means of tracing cultural change over time. This digital tool offers exciting possibilities for cultural psychology by rendering questions about variation across historical time more quantitative. Psychologists have begun to use the viewer to bolster theories about a historical shift in the United States from a more collectivist to ...

Over the past few decades an emerging group of social scientists have been adopting evolutionary approaches to study socio-cultural change. Some have taken this approach to reconceptualise the small business’ struggle for survival as an evolutionary process in which the entrepreneur must ‘learn to evolve’. In this chapter, this practice-based evolutionary language is explored. Entrepreneurial l...