THE IMPACT OF NEW TECHNOLOGY ON LIFESTYLE AND HEALTH – A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Håkan Alm hakan.alm@ltu.se Positive impact of technology As a start I would like to give a short and simple definition of the concept “technology”. Technology will‚ in this case and this paper‚ refer to any physical object‚ product‚ environment‚ or symbol that has been created by human beings. Another frequently used concept with the same meaning is “artifact” (Simon‚ 1969). Technology has had a great impact upon
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The advent of the Internet has been one of the most exciting major events in the second half of the 20th century. The ancient dream of “a scholar knows all things happening in the world without venturing outdoors” has finally become a reality. Since 1993‚ the Internet started to take off. At present‚ the Internet has spread to more than 180 countries and regions‚ connecting more than 600‚000 domestic networks of various types‚ hooking up more than 20 million computers available to 120 million
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Eastern and Western cultures have extremely different ways of learning. In the article‚ Jim Stigler experiments with these various cultures in order to fully understand how each of them tackle learning. Therefore‚ Stigler traveled to Japan to study teaching methods presented there. While he was there‚ he noticed many things that Japanese classrooms obtained. For instance‚ the teachers call up the students that are struggling to demonstrate the problem opposed to the child that already understands
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Communication and the Conflicts between Chinese Culture and Western Culture Abstract There are many matters of cultural conflicts in intercultural communication of Chinese culture and western culture‚ and it seriously affects the course of communication. So‚ it is necessary for us to find the in-depth reason and make some plans on how to improve the ability of intercultural communication. This is the right way to avoid the cultural conflicts. There are several culture conflicts: the conflicts on privacy‚ the
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What were the contributions to Western civilization from the ancient Greeks? The Greek civilization contributed greatly to the development of modern Western culture. Three of the most important contribution that are the foundations of our society are Language‚ Philosophy‚ and Government. The people of ancient Greece developed a sophisticated language with an extraordinarily rich vocabulary. It has existed for nearly 3‚500 years‚ the longest of any language derived from early Indo-European.
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Culture has been stated as one of the biggest challenges for a successful offshore outsourcing. It is very difficult to understand specifically problems related to different cultural aspects. The cultural aspects can be understood either by reading research studies or first-hand observations and experiences. In this case‚ I understood the cultural impacts purely by experiences. Normally‚ western countries are more individualistic compared to cooperative culture in Latin America and Asia. According
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Food plays a very important role in East Indian culture. Dietary habits within this culture are complex‚ enormously varied from region to region‚ and strongly influenced by religion (Purnell & Paulanka‚ 2008). Each religion has its own cooking style‚ which is influenced by the terrain‚ climate and crops. East India is the home of hot‚ spicy food‚ much of which is vegetarian. “Customs and prejudices often remove certain food items from the diet‚ although the prohibitions vary from place to place”
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Family‚ Marriage and Kinship ties of Indian culture specifically of the village of Ratakote as told in Conformity and Conflict. The first thing I noticed about both cultures was they practiced arranged marriages with their children preferably being young (the Indians explained that young age was best so their children wouldn’t start becoming sexually active and elope with someone else they fell in love with and break off the entire marriage they were in). Both cultures were very close to each other family-wise
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Western philosophical theology raises the question if God is so wonderful then why is there evil? The two specific arguments in this theology are: The deductive form and inductive form. In the deductive form God is supposed to eliminate evil and because he doesn’t he is not viewed as all knowing and all powerful or even entirely good. Since evil does exist God’s capabilities are questioned. The inductive form sees the amount of evil in the world and questions God’s existence. God should be doing
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goes as long as its beneficial for you as an individual‚ a governing state of mind; it’s all normal for my eyes. Indian culture has a totally different model compared to the American culture. Indian culture stems from family values. Unlike the American culture the Indian culture has a very strong family base. American families tend to break apart due to individual desires and goals. Indians will by pass anything that appears to have a short term or long term affect on their family. However‚ Americans
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