Traditional Chinese culture, with its distinctive nationality and regionalism, is a valuable source of creative elements for architecture, also an effective weapon to cope the impact “internationalization” “standardization”. In this paper, traditional cultural are symbolically categorized, dissected innovated through architectural semiotics explore characteristics application significance symbo...

AMONG THE TOPICS usually covered in introductory sociology courses, culture may be the most far-reaching and immediately relevant. Not only do cultural concerns cut across virtually every other topic in introductory courses, but the increasing diversity of the American population and the trend toward globalization demand that students understand the challenges and rewards inherent in cross-cult...

one of the common ways to identifying and representing himself, especially in the modern age, cultural consumption. often people in cultural consumption, types of commodities and precious symbols, in order to create favorable images of themselves in the minds of others are taking.the choice of specific pattern of cultural consumption, cultural preferences or practices, the need for cultural res...

ions of celebrations like fireworks ( ) (Emoji, 2016). This array of transmittable symbols between virtually any active smartphone featuring hundreds of symbols presents a significant enrichment over character-based and platformspecific predecessors. Emoji have become a cultural phenomenon since their widespread adoption in the United States during the early 2010s (Blagdon, 2013). Some teachers...

I introduce seven criteria for determining the validity of competing theories for the original function of language. I go on to present a novel explanation that meets all the criteria: language originally evolved to teach kin. I suggest that the use of symbols subsequently generated evolutionary feedback at two levels, in the form of self-modified selection pressures that favored structures in ...

In globalized societies, people often encounter symbols of diverse cultures in the same space at the same time. Simultaneous exposure to diverse cultures draws people's attention to cultural differences and promotes catergorical perceptions of culture. Local cultural identification and presence of cultural threat increase the likelihood of resisting inflow of foreign cultures (exclusionary reac...

In 2008, we conducted a large scale study following our methodology developed for the analysis of drawings to assess identity (Hertz-Lazarowitz, Farah, & Yosef-Meitav, 2012). We gathered interviews and asked for drawing Identity Drawing Map from 184 students aged from 20 30 years. The symbols in the drawings were grouped in 5 categories: religious, national, emotional, secular-cultural and natu...

The neuropeptide oxytocin enhances in-group favoritism and ethnocentrism in males. However, whether such effects also occur in women and extend to national symbols and companies/consumer products is unclear. In a between-subject, double-blind placebo controlled experiment we have investigated the effect of intranasal oxytocin on likeability and arousal ratings given by 51 adult Chinese males an...