“Home is a Place to Rest”: Constructing the Meaning of Work‚ Family and Gender in the Korean Middle Class* Yi Eunhee Kim I. Introduction Feminist scholarship since the eighties (e.g. Yanagisako 1979; Yanagisako and Collier 1987; Rapp 1987; Scott 1988; Yi E. K. 1986; Ginsburg and Tsing 1990; Peletz 1994; 1995; Thorne 1992; Weston 1990) has widely criticized the conceptual oppositions of family and work‚ production and reproduction‚ domestic and public‚ as long used in Western social science.
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1007/s10551-006-9252-9 Ó Springer 2007 Cultural Values and International Differences Bert Scholtens Lammertjan Dam in Business Ethics ABSTRACT. We analyze ethical policies of firms in industrialized countries and try to find out whether culture is a factor that plays a significant role in explaining country differences. We look into the firm’s human rights policy‚ its governance of bribery and corruption‚ and the comprehensiveness‚ implementation and communication of its codes of ethics
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HOW ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE SHAPES COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF TWO ECOMMERCE FIRMS IN CHINA Qiang Ye‚ Harbin Institute of Technology‚ Harbin‚ P. R. China‚ yeqiang@hit.edu.cn Qing Hu‚ Florida Atlantic University‚ Boca Raton‚ Florida‚ USA‚ qhu@fau.edu Yijun Li‚ Harbin Institute of Technology‚ Harbin‚ P. R. China‚ liyijun@hit.edu.cn Abstract Many well-established multinational firms have been attracted to China by its tremendous market size and fast growing economy. While
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The Value of Culture On the relationship between economics and arts edited by Arja Klamer AM ST ERD AM UN IVE RSIT Y PRE SS The Value ofCulture The Value ofCulture On the Relationship between Economics and Arts Edited by Arjo Klamer AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Cover illustration: Vincent van Gogh‚ Le docteur Paul Gachet. Coli. Van Gogh Museum‚ Amsterdam Cover design: Marjolein Meijer‚ BEELDVORM‚ Leiden Typesctting: Bert Haagsman‚ MAGENTA‚ Amsterdam ISBN 90-5356-2I9-2
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1. The Early Algonquian cultures were all building their own societies amongst the tribes. They were trying to live a life and take care of their own things and own taught the children how to perform tasks‚ such as how to fix a hole in a rope‚ how to hunt‚ and how to live together as people‚ all speaking different dialect but interacting and sharing the same resources. There were political conflicts and issues that were negotiated and taken care of too. They believed everything they had was a gift
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Language‚ Society and Culture Final Work Mónica Molina Salas Professor: Patricia Escalante Introduction The purpose of this paper is to take a look at the role of culture in second language teaching‚ its importance for students and how schools are incorporating culture in the classroom. The main theoretical constrains in which this paper is supported are the chapters 1 to 9 by Patrick Moran´s book: “Introduction to teaching Culture” and “The Cultural Experience”; the text” Culture in Second Language
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Affrilachian Voice: Celebrations of Truth and Culture One cultural identity resistant to mainstream social persuasion among rural populations resides in the consciousness of Appalachian Mountain African Americans self-described as Affrilachians in which African Americans from this region are not trying to create an altogether new identity based on fight in the South or flight to the North‚ but are rather reinforcing and enriching an old identity. Because of the unique Appalachian cultural and
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The Culture that I will focus on is Spanish Culture. Spanish Culture has a lot of factors and history ranging from music all the way to food and holidays. Spanish Culture has a lot of stuff that is able to separate them from other cultures and countries around the world. The languages that are used mostly in Spanish culture are Spanish and Latin. The majority of Spanish countries talk in either one or both of these languages. The next biggest idea of Spanish culture is food. Most families for
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Psychology‚ Philosophy‚ Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites</a></center> <br> <br>Culture is a hot topic. Scholars (Fukoyama‚ Huntington‚ to mention but two) disagree about whether this is the end of history or the beginning of a particularly nasty chapter of it. <br> <br>What makes cultures tick and why some of them tick discernibly better than others is the main bone of contention. <br> <br>We can view cultures through the prism of their attitude towards their constituents : the individuals
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Culture consists of beliefs and behavior. It is cultivated behavior in the sense that it is learnt from the other members of the society. According to Henry Mintzberg‚ an internationally renowned author on Business and Management‚ “culture is the soul of the organization – the beliefs and values‚ and how they are manifested. I think of the structure as the skeleton‚ and as the flesh and blood. And culture is the soul that holds the thing together and gives it life force
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