Cultures can be "understood as systems of symbols and meanings that even their creators contest, that lack fi (给这样活动意义和重要性的文化从源于colere的拉丁)(cultura) ,意味“耕种” 1一般提到人类活动的样式和符号结构。 文化可以“被了解作为标志和意思系统甚而他们的创作者比赛,缺乏固定了界限,那经常...
Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the fie...
Culture is a very broad and most humane concept. In a word, culture is a general term for the forms of living elements of regional human beings, namely, clothing, articles, things, food, shelter and travel.文化(culture)是非常广泛和最具人文意味的概念,简单来说文化就是地区人类的...
As anthropologists note, cultural similarities, like the recognition of reciprocity and equity in inter-personal relation, the response to human kindness and love, the desire for meaning in life, which unite different peoples in a common humanity, far outweigh cultural differences that divide people ...
Moreover, as they slowly mastered the complexities of a given culture they were apt to feel that these complexities could be understood in no other way than by prolonged experience; and that it was almost impossible to communicate this understanding to anyone who had not pved through the same...
This also echoes Byrams (1997:25) philosophy of intercultural communication and understanding,“…but this [communication] has to be understood as more than the exchange of information and sending message...Even the exchange of information is dependent upon understanding how what one says or write...
The appropriately labeled concepts from anthropologists used to explain culture, such as bio-psychological functionalism, structural functionalism, cultural ecology, culturology, semeiotic hermeneutics, and cultural materialism, led to my reexamination of past anthropological philosophies using present ...
Someusedittodistinguishhumanadaptivestrategiesfromthelargelyinstinctiveadaptivestrategiesofanimals,includingtheadaptivestrategiesofotherprimatesandnon-humanhominids,whereasothersusedittorefertosymbolicrepresentationsandexpressionsofhumanexperience,withnodirectadaptivevalue.Bothgroupsunderstoodcultureasbeingdefinitiveofhumannature. ...
By “culture,” then, I mean first of all what anthropologists mean: the way of life of particular people living together in one place. That culture is made visible in their arts, in their social system, in their habits and customs, in their religion. But these things added together do ...
Communication is based on a shared “coded” language understood by the group, with reliance on nonverbal communication, such as facial expression and gestures, to convey meaning. High-context cultures value interpersonal relationships, and the members form close-knit communities. In contrast, low-...