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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"collectivist"”.
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Human Capabilities and Collectivist Justice
… humanism and replacing them with more distinctly collectivist and communitarian ones. It contends that the capability approach, when used as a theoretical framework for global development, need not contain almost any ethical normativity with regard to a definition of justice, and indeed it is much …
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Uncertainty Reduction in Initial Interaction of Collectivist and Individualist Students
This exploratory study uses a qualitative methodology, in-depth interviews, to investigate the feelings of uncertainty of six international students within their first three semesters at a medium-sized university in the Midwestern United States. Participants described their feelings of uncertainty …
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Organizational Commitment in a Collectivist Culture: The Case of Turkey
… commitment in Turkey, a predominantly collectivist society. The investigation involved three phases. In Study I, several emic organizational commitment items as well as emic organizational commitment antecedents were identified by in-depth interviews with Turkish employees (N = 83). In …
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The influence of individualist and collectivist attributes on responses to Likert-type scales
… The purpose of the thesis is to explore how collectivist and individualist attributes affect the way people respond to Likert-type questionnaires. In the first study, a new measurement tool for individualism and collectivism was developed to address critical methodological issues in this …
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Friendship bonds, perceived parental support and self-esteem in children from individualist and collectivist cultures
… in most of their relationships, whereas collectivist cultures emphasize interdependence, cooperation, maintaining harmony, and strong emotional attachment. Based on these differences, a goal of this study was to investigate how the social relationships of children vary across age as a …
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Exploring the Relational Center of the Individualist/Collectivist Spectrum: A Literature Survey of Direct and Indirect Perichoretic Works
… can interact with the individualist and collectivist spectrum in progressively fruitful ways. Chapter one explores a general understanding of the spectrum and perichoresis while structuring them around the idea of a relational center. Chapter two conducts a literature survey of works that …
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Individualism and Sport in Modern China Beyond the Myth of Collectivism
… that the respondents significantly favored collectivist beliefs regarding the functions of ""sport for all"", whereas they were motivated to take part in sport more for individualist reasons. Also, they endorsed collectivist values of sport and appeals of group sport participation more …
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Light From Behind the Iron Curtain: Anti-Collectivist Style in Edison Denisov's Quatre Pièces pour flûte et piano, With Three Recitals of Selected Works by Bach, Beaser, Carter, Fauré, Martin, Ibert, Liebermann, and Others
… the compositional style illustrative of the anti-collectivist ideology as found in Edison Denisov's Quatre Pièces pour flûte et piano. Includes a short history of Denisov's formal training, history of the Soviet musical environment, an overview of his creative output, and discussion of the …
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Attributes of individualism/collectivism and the behavior of representatives in intergroup negotiations
… experiment found that representatives with collectivist attributes perceived less social distance toward their constituents and their opponents, and also had higher perceived role obligations toward their constituents, as compared to representatives with individualism attributes. The results …
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Culture and Family Life: Three Studies on Family and Marriage Relationships across Cultures
… study, I select China as a representative of the collectivist culture, and look into how the collectivist culture and older parents' filial beliefs shape the intergenerational relationship in China. I find that patrilocal and patrilineal traditions are still prevail in China. A highly cohesive …
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The Development of Theory of Mind and Social Competence in Young Pakistani Children
… variations in the onset of ToM understanding in collectivist and individualist cultures. However, the findings of cross-cultural studies regarding these variations are inconsistent. The major aim of this innovative research was to investigate differences in the acquisition of ToM in children from …
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The behavior of English and French Canadians towards the environment
… while English Canadians were found to be more collectivist. In line with this finding, English Canadians placed more importance on terminal and instrumental values which are more likely to be held by a collectivist person. The opposite was true for the French Canadians in our sample. …
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Consumers' Perceptions Towards Sustainability: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
… Data was collected from one individual and one collectivist country to explore if there was a culture effect. Social Exchange Theory (SET) is presented as the theoretical lens for this dissertation. Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) is also discussed as a supporting theory. The findings suggest …
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Socio-Cultural Challenges to Women’s Solo Domestic Travel Pursuits: A Mini-Ethnographic Case of Iranian Culture
… by various socio-cultural aspects, including collectivist culture, safety concerns, patriarchal norms, and religious beliefs. Family support and financial affordability play significant roles in the decision-making process. The study provides insights into the challenges faced by women who …
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Individualism/Collectivism, Psychological Processes, and Styles of Conflict Resolution
… styles in relation to Individualist (IND) and Collectivist (COL) value orientations were examined in the present study. Past research (Ting-Toomey et al., 1991, Pearson et al., 1998) has focused on cultural groups in order to explain conflict resolution styles. The current study analyzed …
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Deciding to Fight: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study on Decision-Making in Conflict Situations
… At an individual level, those who are more collectivist are more dependent in their decision-making. At a societal level, students from a collectivist society (Ghana) are more likely to protect the interests of their inner social identity groups, and students from an individualist society …
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"Doing design": notes on the social organization of studio life
… the nature of the design process. A social/collectivist conception of the design process and design practices is offered as an alternative to individualistic/psychological accounts.
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Profiles of Personal Agency: Ethnocultural Variations in Self -Efficacy Beliefs
… on within-group patterns of individualist and collectivist value orientations, implications for measuring individualism and collectivism among ethnocultural groups in the U.S., considerations relevant to the measurement of collective efficacy, and the consequences of individualism and …
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Conceptualizations of Wisdom in the Native American Community
… blocks of a worldview of interconnectedness, a collectivist social structure, and an individual value system promoting of personal development.Participants outline the worldview of interconnectedness as involving components of caretaking, both of others and of nature, and connections through a …
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The moderating effect of culture on cognitive responding mechanisms toward advertising message sidedness
… was carried out in which subjects from a collectivist culture, namely, Hong Kong, and subjects from an individualistic culture, namely, Anglo Canadians, were exposed to one-sided and two-sided messages in their native languages. The results of the research indicate that there are …
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