Previous studies have pointed out that it is hard to achieve the level of herd immunity for population and then effectively stop disease propagation from perspective public health, if individuals just make vaccination decisions based on individualism. Individuals in reality often exist form groups cooperate or among communities. Meanwhile, society suggested we cannot ignore existence influence ...

This article examines the tensions, (dis)continuities, and precariousness of postcolonial identities in autobiographical writings Palestinian authors Ghada Karmi Raja Shehadeh. The question identity will be examined considering Gayatri Spivak’s conceptualisation strategic essentialism Kimberlé Crenshaw’s collective politics texts, as well concepts multiple affiliations by Amin Maalouf Chantal M...

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of culture on the trust determinants in e-commerce. The study adopts two broad trust building foundations (cognitionand affect-based trust) from cross-culture literature, focuses on one wellestablished cultural construct (i.e., individualism-collectivism) as groups of culture, develops a theoretical model of cognition-based versus affect-based e-Ve...

What is the Destiny of Social Networking Sites Data After the Data Owners Pass Away? 12 Competition Between Global and Local Online Social Networks 14 Users Key Locations in Online Social Networks: Identification and Applications 16 Building a Spam Free Social Network 18 Large Scale Topic Detection using Node-Cut Partitioning on Dense Weighted Graphs 20 Individualism and Collectivism in Social ...

Through the method of contrastive analysis, this thesis aims at presenting the differences as well as similarities between friendship view in China and that in English-speaking countries by examining Chinese and English idioms from the perspective of power distance, individualism versus collectivism and long-term versus short-term orientation. A further explanation of the characteristics of the...

Iranian identity cannot be conceived of as a uniform monolithic concept. But, thanks to certain upheavals in the history of the country, it has turned into the triple concept of national/Islamic/modern. Hofstede’s (2001) cultural framework represents a well-validated operationalization of culture based on six cultural dimensions  (power distance, individualism/collectivism, masculinity/feminini...