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World, culture, Chinese, understanding: a fragmentary epistemological conceptualization
This essay, derived from the corresponding conference presentation, uses the English title of the Young Experts Symposium 2022, “Understanding...
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Culture and Commodification: Bihu from Meadows to the Rostrum
Bihu is the most important festival that manifests Assamese cultural identity. The community life comes alive in Bihu performances. It is part of the...
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Cancel Culture, U.S. Conservatism, and Nation
This chapter discusses U.S. right-wing criticisms of “cancel culture,” focusing on a major expansion of these in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd...
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The Representation of Gender Stereotypes in Spanish Mathematics Textbooks for Elementary Education
The latest report of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science, and Culture (OEI) points out that only 13% of the Science,...
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When Nonprofit Organizations Meet Information and Communication Technologies: How Organizational Culture Influences the Use of Traditional, Digital, and Sharing Media
In contrast to previous studies that emphasized how resources and institutional forces influence nonprofit organizations (NPOs)’ use of information...
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Media, Sociocultural Change, and Meta-Culture
Besides and together with actions, communications are the basic processes of the constitution of the social. Since all communications depend on a...
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Conclusions: Towards Post-anthropocentric Masculinities Through Men’s Veganism
The concluding chapter summarises and discusses the main findings of the previous chapters and highlights the key elements of privileged men’s...
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Predators in the Attention Economy: Identification and Defense
The science and technology policy scholars Woodhouse and Sarewitz summarize decades of critical observation with the following “general law”: “New...
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How China’s Two Olympic Games Changed China and the Olympics
Did the Olympics change China, or did China change the Olympics? China was changed by hosting two Olympic Games in 2008 and 2022, although not in the...
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Identities and Ways of Being
Most innovation systems’ theories assume that they are engaging with naturalised phenomena, that they have the ability to illustrate performativity...
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Social Values and Subjective Socioeconomic Status Matter for Happiness in Korea
Politics around the world has become polarized over values and perceptions of equality and fairness. How are values and subjective socioeconomic...
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Neoliberal Malaise, 2013 “June Journeys” and the Criminalization of the Protests in Brazil: a Re-reading Through Louis Althusser
This article investigates the June 2013 protests in Brazil from the perspective an analysis of the pattern of capitalist accumulation and the...
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What is it Like to Evolve? Cultural Evolution as a Lived Experience
The evolution of human culture continues to divide social and biological science. Key issues for both sides are the complexity and variability of...
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Emerging Cultural Capital
This chapter explores more deeply how years of cultural transmission and inculcation have resulted in a changing distinction profile amongst young...
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Accessing the Public Sphere: An Introduction to the Volume
In our globalized world, spaces for new contact, transfer, and interaction are rapidly generated and (re)shaped. Large-scale mobility phenomena and...
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Introduction
The origin of culture and state, the origin of mankind and the origin of agriculture constitute three strategic research programs in the global...
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Person, Community, and Faith in Ghana’s Online Spaces
Ghana is in the midst of a profound social transformation due to the rapid rise in the adoption of digital technologies. Social media in particular...
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Revolt Against Morality—Unintended Feedback Effects of Citizens
As part of a sociological diagnosis of the present, it can be attested that there is a steady increase in different moral entrepreneurs who, through...
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Child Maltreatment and Global Health: Biocultural Perspectives
In this chapter, the challenges of applying cultural, biological, and structural models to child maltreatment are discussed. As a prolegomenon toward...
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Changing Chinese Family and Implications for Elder Care
The chapter considers the impact of demographic and social changes on the traditional Chinese family model. In particular, it considers whether the...