How did cultural diffusion happen in the past? How have other cultures influenced American culture? How do cultural norms affect our behavior? How does culture influence law? How does the geography of Europe influence where people live?
HEMMELGARN: This doesn’t solve problems. All this does is it creates silence and barriers. When errors happen, so often, the front line workers — your nurses, allied health physicians — were blamed. But what we’ve come to realize is, it’s really a systemic problem. They happen to ...
Social media has become an important tool for cultural diffusion. How does it help in promoting cultural understanding among different countries? A. 众众或示状金使争农青发其即根族众众或示状金使争农青发其即根族By only showing the best parts of one's own culture and hiding the rest众众或...
and I think does make, women more risk-averse, in boardrooms and classrooms alike. In my classroom, I have noticed over the years that women are substantially less likely to raise their hand with a mediocre comment. They put their own threshold higher. I think of a classroom — and I t...
Memes, after all, want to be replicated. Viral memes happen when passion and connectivity collide with opportunity. –Greg Note:Unfortunately, Yulia Timoshenko, one of the heroes of the story, now languishes in prison due to the strange and tragic twist of fate that led to Victor Yanukovitch...
Such explosions happen in many sci-fi movies and TV series, such as when "Star Trek"'s Enterprise destroys an enemy vessel, or when the Nostromo self-destructs in "Alien." The problem here is that sound does not carry in space. Sound is an example of a longitudinal wave. The sound ...
As a third party, the Coal Commission was established to find a legitimized, long-term strategy for the coal phase-out in Germany. However, how does the policy instrument actually play out in managing conflicts? We look at political resistance that arises against new economic (infra)structures...
vaccination) does not necessarily stem from a lack of relevant knowledge. Instead, whether an individual adopts some information or behavior depends crucially on the social incentives associated with adopting or rejecting it. This could be viewed as a somewhat similar scenario to cultural evolutionary ...
Second, Watts believes that even when social influence does exist, it doesn’t spread in the same way that infectious diseases do, adding, “it may not even spread at all”. In a study of online diffusion, Watts and his colleaguesfoundthat “over several different domains—including every vi...
Often in this case we use the expression ‘in practice’ to indicate the gap between a phenomenon ‘in theory’ and the concrete way to make it happen. We are going to see how situated working practices make up an accomplished instance of organizing. What do people do when they work?