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UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2002.
This paper describes a visit to the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History highlighting a show entitled "Music in the Life of Africa".
1,755 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, $ 56.95
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This paper explains that the Fowler is a museum of culture rather than an art museum, and therefore it concentrates on the way culture is manifested by different peoples around the world. The author points out that the Fowler Museum is in a relatively new building on the north end of the campus of UCLA, but getting to the museum and close-parking areas are problems. This paper explains that the display of the artifacts in this museum differs from that in many museums; the visitor is not so separated from the objects being shown, but rather most objects rest on low platforms no more than a foot or so off the ground. The paper includes details of the "Music in the Life of Africa" exhibition.
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"Two of the current exhibits emphasize a continuing concern with how a culture makes use of its waste in artistic expression with shows on how certain materials are recycled for use in artworks. A second show has a similar theme but is more particularized as it shows "Muffler Men," or human figures made from discarded mufflers, usually by mechanics who then place these figures outside their businesses as advertising to show passersby what kind of business is conducted inside. Many of these figures are very creative. One service station shown in a photograph has eight or nine such figures outside and on its roof. Some of the figures are playing musical instruments, also made from old mufflers and other automobile parts no longer needed. The figures are usually painted, and they resemble nothing so much as robots in an old science fiction movie."
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Cultural Management - Culture Cannot Be Managed, 2008.
The paper discusses the question of if and how culture can be managed in a business environment.
1,928 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 61.95
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In this paper, the validity of the belief that in a business setting culture cannot be managed is critically analyzed and arguments are made both for and against the statement. The paper also presents examples that suggest that organizational culture does play a very important role in the success of the organization. However, these same examples also serve to reinforce a contention about the inability of corporate culture or management to undergo change.
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"It must be acknowledged that the assertion - "Culture cannot be managed" - would likely meet with some degree of skepticism from organizational management students as well as corporate professionals. However, it may be argued that there is some validity to the perspective on the relationship between management and organizational culture that is manifest in this assertion. Consider, for example, the case of software giant J.D. Edwards. The corporation's CEO and chairman, C. Edward McVaney, contends that the success of a business often has very little to do with its management and senior executives who - as is commonplace in corporate culture - often come and go with minimal impact upon the organization itself. It is McVaney's view that the success of an organization is based upon its culture, which is usually invulnerable to change by management or business leaders. In McVaney's words: "95% of the time, the leaders and management of a business do not lead and manage that business" (Jesitus 16)."
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Caribbean Culture and Cultural Imperialism, 2007.
A discussion on whether the Caribbean society is too receptive and diverse for its own good.
1,633 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines the Caribbean culture and at how its dynamic polyglot, diverse nature - and its ability, and even willingness, to accommodate different cultures and ethno-social traditions - has actually made it vulnerable on a number of profound levels. It explains that the Caribbean nations have shown a marked inability to throw off the cultural, linguistic and educational encrustations of the European nations which took over the region generations ago and which re-shaped their new fiefdoms in ways that effectively did away with pre-European values, codes, religions and dialects. The paper also looks at how many Caribbean young people attend English or French schools and prepare themselves for entry into a "global village" that is controlled by the very ethno-racial groups which turned their own lands "upside-down" in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. In essence, the paper shows that by looking at the fragmented nature of the Caribbean world and by looking at the impress of foreign language upon its peoples and formal structures, a region is revealed that has lost much of its ability to marshal its forces against external imperialistic forces. The writer believes that the Caribbean must start doing a better job of privileging its indigenous traditions and dialects or it will finally, ineradicably, lose them forever.
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"Many observers are of the view that the Caribbean is a melting pot; that it is a place wherein European and non-European types "creolize" and thereby shed their different historical-national identities in favor of one that is "West Indian" in nature. This argument, however, has been vigorously challenged by others who assert that the Caribbean is really a collection of different regions which have their own unique, distinctive features. Simply put, while there may be regional similarities vis-a-vis food, music, dance, dress and a host of other elements, there are many more (or at least as many more) differences as there are similarities (Allahar, p.1-2). Simply put, Allahar appears to be to arguing two things: firstly, West Indian/Caribbean is diverse; secondly, despite this diversity, the region has certain societal features that distinguish it from other regions and which bind together its disparate elements."
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Advertising, Popular Culture and Capitalist Use of the Sub-Cultural, 2002.
An analysis of two articles dealing with the above topics.
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A paper comparing two provided articles - Maynard's concerning homoerotica as employed to sell men's underwear among other products, and Hebdige's more general comments on the power of subcultures when representing reality via media.
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Cultural Units in Cross-Cultural Research, 2000.
The following paper is a review of De Munch and Korotayev's "Cultural Units in Cross-Cultural Research."
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The writer of this paper critically analyzes the ways in which De Munch and Korotayev start out by explaining that it is difficult to research across cultures because of "cross-cultural pollenization" that is, one culture tends to absorb some traits of the other. They point out that without adequate controls, the research can give both false confirmations of the hypothesis as well as false negatives. This paper is a negative critique of Cultural Units in Cross-Cultural Research.
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"The first group might look culturally diverse at first: 4 Spanish; 4 Iraqi; 1 Russian; 1 Estonian; 1 Javanese; 1 Ganda; one Greek; one Maronite-Lebanese. However, this group had significant cultural similarities, which the authors of course knew because they contrived the group. Some of the clerics were Catholic and therefore celibate. Others were Moslem and allowed more than one wife. It is hard to imagine how this example sheds any light on either cross-cultural studies or statistical and research methods."
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"Culture as Given, Culture as Choice", 2001.
This paper analyzes the book "Culture as Given, Culture as Choice" by Elst which studies culture and multiculturalism.
1,285 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper is an in-depth discussion of multiculturalism, it defines it and states that an entirely different view of culture is needed in the intellectual discourse of society. Elst analyzes culture using the example of analyzing sex. Elst makes it clear in his analysis that pluralities of identity are the norm, that everyone is multi-ethnic and multi-racial in some fashion. Finally, the paper concludes that each individual should study and redefine his own culture.
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"Even in the current, mainstream political debate over what constitutes ?multiculturalism,? it is common cultural parlance to view culture as a static entity. Multiculturalism is defined as the manner in which more cultures are integrated into the fabric of the dominant discourse, rather than as a way of deconstructing notions of how culture itself is perceived and misperceived. As the title of Dirk Van Der Elst?s book Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, suggests, however, framing the debate in such a fashion is not necessarily the most radical choice. Elst suggests that nothing really exists as ?culture,? rather culture itself is a constructed, socially produced norm."
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American Culture and Islamic Culture, 2002.
An overview of the similarities and differences between American and Islamic culture.
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Thispaper examines and analyzes American and Islamic culture. Social structures, symbols, norms, values, and rituals are compared and contrasted, and respective strengths and weaknesses are discussed.
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High Culture and Popular Culture, 2003.
Applies concepts to the professional field of education.
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Discusses tenured professors as representative of high culture and associate and/or adjunct professors as representative of popular culture. Describes the greater freedom of tenured professors.
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"In his book, Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste, Herbert J. Gans distinguishes between producers and consumers of high and popular culture based on the disparities of educational attributes and class. Applied to the ..."
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A Cultural Profile of Russian Culture, 2004.
Presents related information regarding the culture of Russia.
1,889 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper provides a cultural report and analysis of the prominent characteristics of Russian culture. The paper is intended to help travelers or visitors to Russia better understand its culture. Included in the discussion is a description of interesting or important cultural characteristics, ideas that would help the reader adapt to the cultural differences one might experience in Russia, ideas to serve as guidelines for people wanting to succeed as communicators in the Russian environment, and the author's own reactions and impressions to various Russian cultural characteristics and practices.
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"Culture is defined as the combination of various patterns, which are practiced by individuals of a country. Culture is the identification of the people of a particular country. Culture includes actions, behavior and practices along with food, clothes and traditions, which are followed by the people of a particular country. Cultural characteristics are not formed in one day, but these characteristics and practices are defined gradually and thus it is the duty of a citizen to adopt these cultural practices and characteristics so that other people who belong to other countries can identify the people as to which culture they belong to. Behavior patterns, norms, language and skills are the essential characteristics, which combinely form CULTURE."
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Five Cultures, 2000.
An analysis of cross-cultural testing for several personality traits, such as impulsiveness, aggression, and play.
2,966 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 5 sources, $ 87.95
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"Paunonen, Zeidner, Oosterveld and Maliphant (2000) used a novel personality inventory called The Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire consisting of 136 items that measured the 16 personality traits of: affiliation, exhibition, play, nurturance, aggression, dominance, achievement, endurance, order, impulsivity, social recognition, succorance, autonomy, thrill-seeking, sentience and understanding. The subjects were asked to estimate the likelihood that they would engage in such behavior or the like, for example, a drawing of an upside-down person on a chord attached to a ledge would be the equivalent of " I like bungee jumping? in a worded personality test."
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Handmade Art, 2002.
Analyzes an exhibition of contemporary folk art at the UCLA Fowler Museum and shows the authenticity and appeal of these works.
2,303 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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The exhibition "Muffler Men, Mu?ecos, and Other Welded Wonders" at the Fowler Museum is a display of works by Los Angeles-area mechanics who make human figures from mufflers and other auto parts. This paper shows that exhibitions like this demonstrate that there is very little handmade work that is not considered important by today's museums.
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"This type of ethnographic appreciation coexisted peacefully with the interest of artists who looked at such work primarily in aesthetic terms. But, since the 1960s, the work of folk artists has increasingly become the focus of so much attention, and subject to such enormous increases in price, that the supposed local audience for which the folk artist creates her/his work has now expanded to include gallery owners, collectors, and curators whose eager acquisition of pieces formerly assigned little monetary value has turned folk artists from avocational painters, sculptors, and quilters to professionals (Shine 99). As Shine points out, unlike movements within Modernism and postmodernism "contemporary folk art [as a category of art] was fundamentally an invention of collectors, rather than a formal aim or a fellowship of artists" (101). Similarities among works by artists in many cultures seem to derive from the similarity in the available materials rather than from specifically local traditions and folk artists seem to produce work to meet the growing demand."
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Cultural Studies, 2005.
An explanation of family culture and the changes in family culture.
10,488 words (approx. 42.0 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 209.95
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This paper attempts to define what family culture is, differentiates between shallow culture and profound culture, looks at what factors impact culture and can cause it to change and discusses how popular culture has changed within the family, creating far reaching effects on culture and society in general.
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Explanation of 'Family Culture' and the Changes in Family Culture
Looking at Popular Culture and How it has Changed within the Family,
How these Changes have had Far Reaching Effects on Culture and
Society
Food- How Globalization Means that We Now Eat Food from Other
Countries
Families will Now Eat Out Quite Regularly
Has Media Caused Loss of Conversation and Interaction?
Changes in Leisure and Spare Time Culture within the Family
Conclusion
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"The term culture defined by Websters is as follows: A particular form of civilization, especially the beliefs, customs, arts, and institutions as a society at a given time. (What is family culture?) To start with, culture is not sanctified and does not belong to anyone. It cannot be kept on a shelf or in a museum to store a society's previous history. Culture is the existing complete way of life and a lively system of adjustment. Culture is a human mechanism for directing continued existence and reproductive conducts within a particular natural and social environment. (Education &Culture) With regard to rules, roles, habits, activities, beliefs, and other areas, family culture is the exclusive way that a family forms itself. (What is family culture?)"
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Steward's Cultural Ecology: A Critique, 2005.
A discussion of the theory of cultural change/cultural ecology.
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This paper examines Julian Steward's theory of cultural change, which is also referred to as cultural ecology. This is the theory that environment and culture exist in a dialectical relationship, at least with regard to resource use and production. The paper provides an overview of the theory, examples of the theory at work, and concludes with a critique of the theory's weaknesses.
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"Perhaps it is no more than a biological necessity to find order in the world that drives the human mind to develop all manner of theories by which seemingly unrelated events can be explained. Perhaps the drive is more cultural in nature. However, if that were the case, then proponents of Julian Steward's theory of cultural ecology would no doubt attempt to explain the drive as the result of a complex interaction between cultural and environmental factors. Whatever the case on that score, it is nonetheless apparent that in all academic disciplines there is a push to develop theoretical-methodological approaches to study that can explain the nature of the discipline and also provide avenues for further research. The cultural ecological perspective is one such approach that attempts to explain the origin and development of cultural elements to interactions and adaptations..."
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Cultural Differences and Workplace Behavior, 2002.
An examination of the differences between French/European and Arab cultures and how these cultural differences carry over into the workplace.
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Examines differences between French/European & Arab cultures & how these cultural differences carry over into the workplace. Cites culture-specific dynamics & customs. Cultural roles. Status of women in Arab cultures. Class stratification in France. Workplace management in context of a global economy.
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"This research will examine differences between the Arab and French cultures in relation to how these differences might affect behavior in the workplace. An overview of cultural differences germane to workplace dynamics will be discussed as well as the effect of such differences on organizational behavior and on the behavior of individual actors within an organization, chiefly in European work situations.
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The importance of cultural difference to workplace dynamics looms large when it is understood that as of the third-millennial period "the conduct of business is increasingly global.". Major multinational corporations (MNCs), such as IBM, that are based in one country do not necessarily receive the bulk of income and earnings from their home country but from overseas. Meanwhile, the..."
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Behaviorism - Cross Cultural Values, 2006.
The paper discusses cultural difficulties among inter and intra cultural groups.
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The paper uses four articles, ("Thousands flee Assam tribal feud", S. Bhaumik,"Cataloguing US abuses" BBC News, Dec 2004, "Suicide bombers held in Bosnia", N. Hawton and "Suicide Bombers", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bomb) to demonstrate the need for more cross cultural understanding and training. The paper discusses cultural interpretations and motivations among inter and intra cultural groups and explains the origins of many cultural difficulties between these groups. The paper explains how cultural conflicts and misunderstandings commonly occur within homogeneous populations and among people of varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The paper concludes by suggesting that more communication and collaboration can improve the inter and intra-cultural differences and problems and offers suggestions on how this can be achieved.
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"Cross cultural conflict often occurs when members of varying cultures share different beliefs, values and understandings of events, issues or proper ways of behaving. It is vital that cultural differences be examined to help members of society develop better methods for addressing cultural conflicts. A better understanding of cross cultural differences may enable more communication and collaboration and less violence.
"Cross cultural events often result in violence when people of varying cultures are not able to come to agreement regarding the appropriate course of action to follow in a given situation. Below we'll discuss cultural interpretations and motivations among inter and intra cultural groups and explain the origins of many cultural difficulties between these groups."
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