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In connection with the fact that in the 20th century the ontological unity of the world was destroyed, many concepts of philosophy lost their high status and began to be considered as multivariate meanings. So, instead of the human mind as such, the political mind has come to the fore. Accordingly, life in the being of others began to be presented as a necessity of co-referring with other political minds. In this regard, the phenomenon of dialogue has taken the form of the paradigm of the era. At the same time, the dialogue began to be presented as intercultural, interreligious, interpersonal, interstate. This became a trend of practical reality. In connection with the fact that the political mind became the dominant, elements of the political began to be introduced into all spheres of human life, generating certain distortions. For example, the manipulation of religious feelings in politics has given rise to a phenomenon such as religious terrorism and extremism. The search for comfort groups is one of the reasons for this phenomenon. The way out is the development of a traditional culture at the proper level, which will allow the negative energy to be sublimated to positive. In the refraction of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), the idea of archetypes of culture is being repeatedly raised. Appeal to archetypes is one of the options for acquiring the lost meaning of being. The problem of the actualization of the archetypal is also connected with the sacred problem, because when appealing to cultural archetypes, the sacred as a certain higher spiritual heritage is in the first place in demand.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- References -- 1. The Migration and Mutation of "Culture -- Introduction -- Grasping the Idea of "Culture -- The Existence of Subcultures -- Political Processes Impact Culture -- Cultures Are Always in a State of Flux -- The Human Relations Perspective Era (1920s-1960s) -- The Hawthorne Studies -- Some Subsequent Human Relations Contributions -- The Performance Perspective Era (1980s-Date) -- A Summary of Some Classic Performance Perspective Literature -- A Few Additional Performance Perspective Contributions -- Some Key Similarities and Differences in Recent Orientations -- The Critical Theorists (1990s-Date) -- Some Concluding Observations -- The Subsequent Chapters -- References -- 2. Self-Directed Teams and Peer Discipline at Finos -- Introduction -- Peer Discipline Theory Development -- Prior Fieldwork on Peer Discipline -- Peer Discipline in a Unit of Finos -- The Organization Culture at Finos -- Shifting to a Self-Directed Team Culture -- Peer Discipline Experiences -- Concluding Observations -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. The Team Culture at Value Stores -- Introduction -- The Human Relations Fieldwork on Sears (1940s-1950s) -- The Organization Culture of Walmart -- The Value Stores Field Study -- The Official Value Stores Organization Culture -- Some Employee Experiences -- Tim Barr's Story -- George Sanchez's Story -- Julia Hammond's Story -- Yvonne Owens' Story -- Pat Wood's Story -- The Cultural Comparisons Drawn by Our Participants -- Comparing the Culture at Value Stores to the Prior Literature -- Evidence of Employee Informal Organization -- Evidence of Store Operating Cultures -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Melding Six Sigma into the Organizational Culture at Insuro -- Introduction.

Invoking Zygmunt Bauman's acute exposition of a left-critical hesitation between intellectuals as saviours and intellectuals as oppressors, this essay argues that while Bauman reveals this hesitation as crucial and symptomatic, nevertheless he leaves it unresolved. The essay shows how the human nature/ culture distinction (which is also a continuity) is, in fact, constitutive of human culture as such; moreover, the essay argues that this constitutive distinction reproduces itself within culture in terms of reciprocal hierarchies of social division — intellectual/non-intellectual, shamanistic/folk, aristocratic/popular. This pattern of vertical reciprocity is precisely what the purely horizontal axis of capitalist-bureaucratic liberalism excludes, collapsing the hierarchical axis of political culture into the horizontal false-binary of 'left' versus 'right'. In this way the essay argues that the crux of an authentic resistance to capitalist-bureaucratic liberalism will involve not a triumph of the 'left' over the 'right' , but the retrieval of the dynamic paradox of the vertical axis of the hierarchical communion of guiding excellence fused with popular spontaneity. The hierarchical yet dynamically educative interplay between innovators and those being constantly innovated is the organic root of human culture and the means of the authentic practice of human justice.

Examines youth culture in Japan in comparison with the US and the UK. Analyzes the main generational groupings to have grown up under conditions of affluence and discusses their readiness to take part in an increasingly global culture.

Among the most persecuted peoples in the world, Rroma (Gypsies) have sometimes struggled to retain their ethnic identity, and have suffered from a lack of formal education and high rates of illiteracy. This article examines the education and sport involvement of Rroma youth in Hungary. Results suggest that while Rroma youth are from severely disadvantaged backgrounds, their educational achievements are impressive. The sports in which Rroma youth are involved are generally similar to other Hungarian youth; however, the different rates of participation appear to be related both to differences in income and education and to ethnicity. Education and sports participation may well serve as vehicles for assimilating Rroma into the dominant Magyar (Hungarian) culture, but in schools that cater predominantly for Rroma students and include instruction in Rroma language and culture, they may also serve to consolidate ethnic differences and strengthen ethnic identity.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Material Cultures in Canada, Material Cultures Now -- PART I: MATERIALITIES -- 1 The Work of the Beaver -- 2 Night in a Box: Anne Carson's Nox and the Materiality of Elegy -- 3 Maxims and Contraries: Notes from a Project in Process -- 4 The Geranium in the Window: One Plant's Literary Hardiness in the Canadian Imagination -- 5 Is It Still a Cinch?: The Transformational Properties of Objects in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing -- PART II: IMMATERIALITIES -- 6 Obama's Playlist: Materializing Transnational Desire at the CBC