This commentary discusses the anthropological implications of Richard Widess’ paper by summarizing some anthropological approaches to music, especially focusing on the way musical participation inculcates and transmits an aesthetic orientation that guides action across cultural domains such as politics, economics and religion. The paper ends by suggesting that the heart of human culture is more...

Market orientation is widely accepted as important for company performance. However, scholarly research on market orientation has emphasised the consequences of marketorientation rather than its antecedents. With the growth of the services industry, it has been suggested that internal marketing influences market orientation, as the product received is a human performance, with the employees pla...

The Meaning of Islam in the Qur'an Textualist Perspective: A Study Textual Orientation Al-Qur'an Interpretation In treasures exegesis, there are two orientations commonly used by mufassir interpreting Qur'an. First, textual orientation. Second, contextual This article aims to critically examine orientation interpretation Qur'an, which often only looks at text alone, without looking aspects cont...

Considerable attention has been given to young British Asian Muslim identity in recent years. Whilst much of the literature has addressed the diasporic and transnational nature of British Muslim identity there has been a growing recognition of the need to address the national context in which this identity is formed. However, there is still a comparative lacuna of information about how religion...

objective: this study investigated the relationship between resilience and religious orientation (internal and external) with posttraumatic growth (ptg). this study also examined the impact of marriage and sex variables on growth . method: participants were selected based on prescreening of a larger group of students enrolled in the university of shiraz. participants were recruited in two stage...

The prevalence of risk factors for chronic diseases such as smoking, alcohol abuse, low fruit and vegetable consumption, and lack of physical activity is high among young adults. Health behaviours are influenced by many factors and also by religious orientation, as American studies show. The aim of the present study was to explore whether a similar association with religion exists in Austria (E...

Research has shown that religion is associated with a wide range of health behaviors among adults of all ages. Although there is strong support for religion's influence on behaviors such as drinking and smoking, less is known about the possible relationship between religion and the use of preventive health services. This relationship may be particularly important in Mexico, a country with high ...

This study is based on clinical sociological principles derived from Durkheim's and Weber's theories, as well as from contemporary research findings which suggest that religion and feminism can be social sources of empowerment for women. The theoretical orientation therefore incorporates social and cultural influences on behavior, as well as the intrapsychic and interpersonal decision-making pr...

The Work Preference Inventory (WPI) is designed to assess individual differences in intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Both the college student and the working adult versions aim to capture the major elements of intrinsic motivation (self-determination, competence, task involvement, curiosity, enjoyment, and interest) and extrinsic motivation (concerns with competition, evaluati...

INTRODUCTION This paper introduces medical educators to the field of conversation analysis (CA) and its contributions to the understanding of the doctor-patient relationship. THE CONVERSATION ANALYSIS APPROACH Conversation analysis attempts to build bridges both to the ethnographic and the coding and quantitative studies of medical interviews, but examines the medical interview as an arena of...