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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"cultural complexity"”.
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Seeing the good and bad in culture: An exploration of the construct of cultural complexity
This research aimed to explore cultural complexity, a novel construct defined as variability in the level of agreement between one’s personal beliefs and the perceived important norms in one’s culture. Simply put, individuals who exhibit high levels of cultural complexity tend to notice both …
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Navigating Cultural Complexity: The Influence of Self and Organizational Support on Global Work Environment Outcomes
<p>Studies in social psychology and organizational psychology have incorporated social identity theory but have not specifically examined the effects of self-construal, self-uncertainty, and perceived organizational support on an individual’s organizational outcomes. Past studies have found that …
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The Gardener Architect: designing with the emergent natures of places
… develop their resilience: their biological and cultural complexity and diversity. Processes of growth as well as decay are nurtured and expressed. It has been investigated through contextualising and re ecting on three ongoing series of work in my practice that combine buildings and landscapes, …
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Rethinking Landscape Interpretation: Form, Function, and Meaning of the Garfield Farm, 1876-1905
… campaign reveals the existence of the dual cultural values of agrarian tradition and agricultural progress in the late nineteenth century. Although Garfield did not depend on farming exclusively for his livelihood, he, like many agriculturalists of this era participated in a process of …
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Weaving Mahinga Kai and Landscape Architecture: Designing with nature through people-ecology interactions
… research are four-fold. First, it finds that a culturally encompassing interpretation of mahinga kai, and its concepts, sites and practices, has significant potential to broaden landscape architecture’s conceptualisation of nature and landscape. Second, it finds that a quadrant-based tool has …
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An Iron Age in the Philippines?: A Critical Examination
… that local blacksmiths processed iron for agricultural and household implements. Surpluses were traded to other groups, promoting the continuous diffusion of iron. Ten iron samples from the Philippine National Museum and 75 samples from the Guthe-Michigan collection were examined …
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Understanding value congruence : a sport organization case study
With the recent growth in cultural complexity, many organizations are faced with increasingly diverse employee pools. Gaining a greater understanding of the values that employees possess is the first step in effectively satisfying their needs and achieving a more productive workforce (lung & …
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Globalization and Discursive constructions of identity in Two Generations: The Igbo People of Nigeria
… and addressed issues of generational and cultural complexity, language and identity shift and death, and new visions of national identity. The focus was on (a) language attitudes observed, in particular the language attitudes of elders and youths towards the use of proverbs and the …
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Transnational networks and nation-building: the protest of Barágua and the transition from plantation societies to the modern nation-state in Cuba and the Americas
… is often interpreted as a late twentieth century cultural phenomenon. This work challenges that supposition by examining the cultural practice of transnationalism during the last quarter of the nineteenth century in Cuba and other parts of the Americas. The historical process of nation-building, …