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Politicians regularly make statements to the effect that there are two, three or even four generations, within the same family, that have never worked. Politicians are also on record as stating that there is a something for nothing culture. These concepts of generations and cultures of worklessness regularly appear in the traditional print media, internationally and in academia. Where the reasons for holding a belief are adequate and the belief formed from the available evidence is adequate, the belief may be understood as properly held. Where this is not the case the belief is improperly held. This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey to link information on individuals and between generations to assess whether belief in generations and cultures of worklessness are 'properly held'. The level of intergenerational worklessness is quantified and the circiumstances of those out of work assessed. The descriptive analysis confirms previous research which finds no evidence for the generations and cultures theses. In the absence of corroborating evidence it is argued that the concepts of generations and cultures of worklessness should be treated as improperly held beliefs and it is time they are done away with.

This article lies at the crossroads of education, technology, and culture, examining the assumption that societal cultures can exert influence on educational technologies. It is informed by a hypothesis that educational technology is not merely a matter of education and technology alone but is also about the societal culture wherein that educational technology is implemented. The study explores those societally and culturally informed factors that promote the rejection of educational technologies. It answers the research question: To what extent do societal cultures challenge educational technologies? This question is addressed by carrying out a quantitative enquiry into Israel and Saudi Arabia. Having analyzed the collected data using an exploratory factor analysis, societally and culturally directed factors were revealed that flew in the face of educational technologies. The theoretical proposition that could be drawn from this is that educational technologies can be rejected not based on educational or technological interests alone but rather based on societally and culturally promoted anxieties. The recommendation for research policy is thus that, when researching an educational technology, there should be constant consideration of how societally and culturally compatible it is with the wider societal culture wherein it will be or already is situated.

This book takes a closer look at the phenomenon of 'cinematic tourism', exploring audiences' perceptions of film and their covert relationship with tourist advertizing campaigns, alongside the nature of, and resistance to, newly-born tourist industries

The contributors to this volume examine Asian video cultures--from video platforms in Indonesia to amateur music videos in India--in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures, showing how Asian video practices are central to shaping contemporary experiences and mainstream global media.

Why breaking down boundaries matters for archaeological research on learning and cultural transmission : an introduction / Miriam T. Stark, Brenda J. Bowser, and Lee Horne -- Patterns, processes, and parsimony : studying cultural evolution with analytical techniques from evolutionary biology / Mark Collard and Stephen J. Shennan -- Gendered technology, kinship, and cultural transmission among Salish-speaking communities on the Pacific Northwest coast : a preliminary investigation / Peter Jordan and Thomas Mace -- Cultural transmission of copying errors and the evolution of variation in woodland pots / Jelmer W. Eerkens and Carl P. Lipo -- Evolutionary trajectories of technological traits and cultural transmission : a qualitative approach to the emergence and disappearance of the ceramic wheel-fashioning technique in the southern Levant / Valentine Roux -- Learning and transmission of pottery style : women's life histories and communities of practice in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Brenda J. Bowser and John Q. Patton -- Translating ideologies : tangible meaning and spatial politics in the northwest Amazon of Brazil / Janet Chernela -- Mother bella was not a bella : inherited and transformed traditions in southwestern Niger / Olivier P. Gosselain -- The way of the potter's mother : apprenticeship strategies among Dii potters from Cameroon, West Africa / Hélène Wallaert-Pêtre -- Technical traditions and cultural identity : an ethnoarchaeological study of Andhra Pradesh potters / Laure Degoy-Thotakura -- The long arm of the mother-in-law : learning, postmarital resocialization of women, and material culture style / Ingrid Herbich and Michael Dietler -- Colonialism and cuisine : cultural transmission, agency, and history at Zuni Pueblo / Barbara J. Mills

"The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture is an intersectional, diverse and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture. The book seeks to reflect established theories while anticipating future developments within sexuality and cultural studies. A range of international contributors, including leaders in their field, provide insights into dominant and marginalised subjects. Comprising over 30 chapters, the volume is comprised into four thematic sections: embodying, making, doing and resisting. Topics explored include menstruation, fat, disability, sex toys, BDSM, dating apps, body modification and politics and activism. This is an important and unique collection aimed at researchers and students across Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and Sociology"--

The book under review is a significant contribution to the study of political economy and culture in contemporary Africa. The book seeks to understand the impact of international development interventions on culture, politics and society in Tanzania. Drawing on scholarly traditions of critical discourse and ethnographical analysis, the book draws heavily on the author's anthropological research of well over a decade and his work as a development consultant in Tanzania to interrogate contemporary development idioms, imageries, institutions and practices. It focuses on explaining how inordinate dependence on foreign aid impacts the ideology, policy and institutional choices of recipient states as wellas the cultural orientations of the broad masses. Within a tightly packed 182 pages.

This chapter discusses a series of political and cultural transitions in Bhutan and their impact on the modernization of the education system. It traces the major shifts in government - from theocracy to monarchy to democratic monarchy – alongside the shifts in education - from a solely monastic system to the development of a secular, modern education system. But in this there are tensions; not least between 'culture and tradition' for so long infused into the education curriculum, and the current trend towards the embracement of modern ideas. Are these tensions irreducible? Will culture and tradition be eschewed completely as Bhutan adopts what seems to be an irreversible pathway towards a modern, some might suggest 'Western' system of education?

Carin Wilson is one of New Zealand's significant designers and makers of studio furniture. This analysis of his career is enmeshed with New Zealand contemporary craft history, and the national Pākehā (non-Māori) organization that advocated for craft issues and education from 1965 to 1992. During this period and subsequently, Wilson negotiated his bi-cultural heritage to engage in one-of-a-kind furniture-making as well as benefit non-Māori and Māori communities and the nation. Unlike New Zealand's coat-of-arms, which portrays its founding cultures as equal yet separate, Wilson's career shows that New Zealand's cultures merge into each other, manifesting in hybrid individuals and communities.

The cultural issue has undoubtedly been one of the main ideas of John Paul II's pontificate. This paper reviews the main definitions of culture that the Polish Pope left us, relating them to the identity of peoples. In this same sense, a brief analysis of the phenomenon of globalization is made as it was developed by John Paul II, and it ends with a brief reference to the impact of this phenomenon on local cultures.