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States that cultural elements, the common body of ideas, values, and institutions that supports a cluster of intergovernmental relationships, is the most important element in regional power and security relations. The state-system culture, China as a culture-state, and culture as perceived in the region.

The role of cultural analysis in the sociology of race, ethnicity, and immigration varies across subject matter. Primarily for political reasons, it has been marginalized in the study of ethnic/racial inequality, though new work is reclaiming culture in this important context. It has an unacknowledged presence in studies of discrimination and domination, but is explicit in macro and historical studies. This article surveys these subfields and makes a call for bolder, deeper, and broader cultural analysis in the field. More work is needed on cultural assimilation, how inequality and discrimination produce racial and ethnic meanings, how ethnic and racial cultures affect interests through variations in conceptions of the meaning of life, how sending state cultures affect immigrant and ethnic cultures in the United States, and how globalization is Americanizing immigrants before they even leave their homelands.

"Grinding California" provides the first academic analysis of the subculture of skate punk at book-length. It establishes highly critical evaluations of the discourses that influenced early skateboarding and punk cultures. Based on an examination of songs, flyers, magazines, and videos, Konstantin Butz revisits American popular cultures of the 1980s and approaches them from a variety of theoretical and methodological angles. He introduces contemplations of the rebellious potential that can be located within skate punk's material and corporeal contestations of the site-specific locale of suburban Southern California. Theoretical recourses to thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht are topped off with excerpts from interviews with some of the most influential protagonists of the 1980s skate punk scene.

This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times

In the nineteenth century, science was inseparably identified with progress. This optimism has given way to a pandemic mistrust of science by all sorts of elites. Yet this by no means reproduces the traditional opposition between science and the humanities. On the contrary, it reflects a clash within the culture of science itself. From a positivist perspective, knowledge goes with certainty. The destructive power of modern science, even in democratic societies, along with epistemological shifts within scientific practice itself, have favoured the emergence of a different and valuable conception of the relation between science and society, one that entails a certain tentativeness with respect to recommending policy and evaluating the need for new areas of investigation. In a democracy, the view of scientific knowledge as ethically indeterminate is both philosophically shaky and pragmatically indispensable. (Original abstract)

The purpose of the article is to identify the role of Н. Aleksandrovych 's work in the choreographic culture of Ternopil region. Methodology. A set of methods was applied, including the analysis of the literature and source base, systematization of information, consideration of events on a chronological basis. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the creative activity of Halyna Stepanivna Aleksandrovych, a teacher-methodologist at the Terebovlya College of Culture and Arts, an excellent student of education in Ukraine, was comprehensively analyzed and her role in the choreographic culture of Ternopil region was clarified. Conclusions. Н. Alexandrovich is one of the leading specialists in the regional choreographic culture of Ternopil region, which for fifty years has been teaching, folklore, choreography, education and promotion. The basis of the repertoire of the folk dance ensemble "Dzherelo" created by her consists of works recorded by Н. Alexandrovich in the process of field research and skillfully processed for performance in the stage. In "Dzherelo" the teacher combines educational, upbringing and artistic functions: in addition to purely professional tasks (formation of a highly professional dancer and leader of the choreographic team) is the formation of students' choreographic worldview, the formation of national-patriotic values through joining, distinguished by the author's style, which are a significant contribution to the development of choreographic culture of the region and Ukraine as a whole.

"When the Royal Academy of Letters celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2003, one of the events was a symposium in Stockholm entitled 'Media and Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century'. The present volume includes the contributions of the four keynote lecturers, John Brewer, Robert Darnton, Carla Hesse and Jean Sgard." (Vordere Klappe des losen Schutzumschlags sowie https://vitterhetsakad.bokorder.se/en-US/article/127/media-and-political-culture-in-the-eighteenth, Zugriff am 08.04.2022)

This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans.The book includes classic essays by Higham and more recent writings, some of which have been substantially revised for this publication. Topics range widely from the evolution of American national symbols and the fate of our national character to new perspectives on the New Deal, on other major turning points, and on changes in race relations after major American wars. Yet they are unified by an underlying theme: that a heterogeneous society and an inclusive national culture need each other

Theorizing about how culture influences planned group formation and interaction can be tested through using focus groups as a research method. This article is not about the Omani population, but in higher education, it is useful to depict evaluative research as being cosmopolitan in its approach. Data obtained from eleven focus groups conducted in Oman with nurses assisted the authors of this paper to embrace what it means to respect another culture and enable understanding of that culture. The premise about reflexive methods is to promote the voices of the research team and by reporting a team approach a broader voice can be heard. This paper aims to inform an international audience that taking a traditional perspective when using focus groups can be stereotyped by cultural assumptions. Such stereotypical assumptions did not represent the reality of the design; the study was structured to be culturally sensitive and fit for purpose. Such assumptions can be dismissed if participants are given a choice within the study.

War is an ever-present feature of human civilization. Nearly all cultures and societies show accounts of human conflict. This portfolio seeks to provide both a multidimensional analysis of war and a means of instructing students to appreciate its significance as a driving force of history using three different components. The syllabus project provides a long-term view of how the various wars and conflicts came to be and progressed in Western Civilization in the modern era. The chapter-length paper shows the ravaging effects that war and conflict can have on a physical landscape and the environment in which the conflict takes place. Case studies of the battles of Moscow and Kursk in the Soviet Union are used to show that while war has a great impact on nature, the environment of an area can also greatly impact the progression and outcome of battles and even entire war efforts. The digital timeline of American consumption during the Second World War provides an understanding of war through a different perspective, showing how war can affect domestic as well as foreign populations. This portfolio intends to illustrate the complexity of conflict and war in human history and the many consequences that accompany war throughout historical accounts. While the syllabus shows the long-term effects of war over a vast amount of time, the paper and the timeline project show the direct consequences of warfare on citizens, food production and management, and the effected environment. As a whole, this portfolio seeks to further our understanding of war and its impact on humanity.

The research is devoted to the analysis of the 'narrative about the author' in interviews with contemporary writers. Modern literary process is characterized by reconfiguration and reevaluation of the writerreader- text system. The author's persona, their direct speech intended for different types of readership are coming to the fore. In interviews, a special 'narrative about the author' (self-identification as a writer) is formed. The author of the article comes to a conclusion that writers are faced with the necessity of public self-reflection, self-commenting, i. e. creation of a metatext – a second-order text about one's own creative work; they become self-interpreters, gaining the ability to influence the reader's perception vectors, while shifting from the sphere of the sacred to the sphere of consumption. Text as a communication act ceases to be alienated from the author (the author-text-reader relationship becomes horizontal), the reader perceives the work through the model of personality that the writer has presented to the public. It is necessary to study the author's narrative of self-representation as a system of voluntary or repressive conventions adopted by the author (narrative framework), restrictions imposed by the author on themselves, and ways of their representation, taking into account the problem of verification of this self-representation. The way the 'narrative about the author' is arranged is determined by many factors; the description of those can serve as an illustration of the dynamics of modern writers' views on the essence of literary creativity and the mission of the writer in the time of literary centrality coming to collapse. The study of the 'narrative about the author' is relevant in the context of understanding the complexity of determining the main artistic trends of the present time. The research is based on the material of interviews with the writer E. Vodolazkin devoted to his novel Lavr.

Cette étude porte sur deux usines de pâtes et papiers situées, l'une en Ontario, l'autre au Québec, dans des villes de taille et de composition sociale comparables. L'usine ontarienne a été entièrement modernisée au début de la décennie. L'examen du processus de production et des tâches accomplies par les ouvriers des deux usines montre que les nouvelles technologies ont révolutionné le travail des ouvriers de la production ontariens, dont les fonctions diffèrent désormais de celles de leurs camarades du Québec; cependant, le travail des ouvriers affectés aux machines demeure le même dans les deux usines. L'auteur s'intéresse aux effets des changements technologiques sur la culture politique; il visait aussi à éclairer les similitudes et les différences d'opinions politiques entre Canadiens anglais et Québécois. Son enquête montre que la « classe sociale » ne peut à elle seule rendre compte des différences d'opinion entre les ouvriers enquêtés sur neuf sujets politiques importants.

Résumé À la demande de la Fédération textile de la cgt , un travail d'enquête a été entrepris en 2003 dans trois cas de fermeture d'usines textiles, auprès des anciens salariés de Levi's, Cellatex et Mossley. Il s'est agi, à partir de trois moments clés (annonce de la fermeture, lutte et après-conflit), de rendre compte de ce que la fin du travail entraîne : un traumatisme et une possible reconstruction. La question est alors : après le traumatisme du licenciement, comment se reconstruire ? Dans les trois cas, on observe l'existence de structures associatives assurant une forme de veille et d'entraide mutuelle. Grâce à elles, les anciens salariés rencontrent des pratiques culturelles (cinéma, théâtre, écriture) qu'ils vont eux-mêmes expérimenter, devenant acteurs à leur tour et « objets de culture ». On verra comment cette appropriation culturelle a joué dans la reconstruction de leur intégrité.

Traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound.