Media plays significant roles in shaping cultural actions, conceptions, behaviors and understandings of many people across the globe. Arab world is among the nations that are culturally rich, complex and diverse, but media technology has greatly influenced them. The rapid media technology and communication advancement has contributed to the increased pace at which people from diverse regions across the globe interact culturally, learn and exchange ideas. The western culture is believed to have...
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Mass Society is a social theory that evolved during the 20th century in the modern society, and it was associated with the industrialization process which became rampart due technology advancement. Since social order is unavoidable, the mass society is created through herding people into organizations. The 20th century has led to varied transformation in the political, economic and social structures, as well as in communication system (Findley and John 2011, 18). The mass society led...
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Abstract
The research carried out comprehensive assessment of Chinese culture. The researcher provided a brief introduction on the way diverse cultural beliefs and practices can impact the roles of nurses. The researcher employed interview method to interview one of the Chinese with well conservative Chinese culture living, in America. From the research interview, it was found that many Chinese avoid direct eye contact when communicating with others. Chinese also have diverse health beliefs and...
Digital storytelling is defined as digital media that encompasses narratives, music, art, and photography that allow participants to communicate stories, achievements, experiences, struggles, and histories (Lundby, 2009). The research topic is significant because the findings on the experience of digital storytelling on cultural identity can lead to further research and integration of digital storytelling in education and youth programs. Although Rio de Janeiro hosts some of the biggest favela...
The construct of ethnic identity can be understood from social perspective as the sense of belonging to a particular cultural or ethnic group. These groups tends to be one in which an individual claims heritage or custom. Ethnic identity is defined as a social category where one is most likely to be identified in terms of heritage, religion, culture and language attributes. These attributes are the ones that determine eligibility for membership and these attributes are acquired genetically, culturally...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
IntroductionFor many years, majority of cultures all around the world have acknowledged marriage as a union among women and men. Same sex marriages (gay marriages) have occurred in private for years. Gay marriage is the union between two women or two men through allowing them to have precise similar set of legal rights just like heterosexual spouses.Marriage in several cultures has legendary origins, though often it is for practical purposes. Some of the reasons were that kids had two regular...
Hipsters are generally middle-class white youths looking to imitate the lifestyle of black jazz musical group. The hipster subculture grew, and after World War II, an escalating mythical scene attached itself to the group. Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were the early hipsters, but Norman Mailer was the one who tried to define the group (McCann, 2008). Norman referred hipsters as American existentialists, living a life bounded by death – wiped out by atomic war or regulated by social agreement...
Saturday, October 5, 2013
IntroductionSalem could be considered one of the bigger Massachusetts Bay towns that people first settled in by the Englishmen in the year 1626. Though in the 1630s and with the obtainable land of the coastal family immediately diminished and the longing for bigger and improved farmland, a set of settlers to set up homesteads to the west side of Salem. This region later became Salem village, and by the 1660s incorporated an extensive collection of broadly scattered farms.DiscussionThe Salem witchcraft...
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