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The article focuses on the legal culture in Quebec. It presents the institutions, influences, evolution, and characteristics of the legal culture of the Canadian state. It traces the state's hybrid origins of civil law, intellectual elite of legal community, and chaotic culture transformation....
- The Age of Suspicion. Hoye, R. Nicholas // Vital Speeches of the Day;11/01/78, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p42
Presents the text of a speech given by R. Nicholas Hoye, president of HHO Consultants Inc., from September 12 to 16, 1978, which deals with the management of societal change.
- Memes Revisited. Sterelny, Kim // British Journal for the Philosophy of Science;Mar2006, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p145
In this paper, I argue that the adaptive fit between human cultures and their environment is persuasive evidence that some form of evolutionary mechanism has been important in driving human cultural change. I distinguish three mechanisms of cultural evolution: niche construction leading to...
- ANCIENT CHINA UNDER MODERN COMMUNISM: THE COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY OF PRE-COMMUNIST AND COMMUNIST SOCIETY. Spencer, Joseph E. // California Geographer;1962, Vol. 3, p1
The article offers a review of the ideas, the themes, and the workings of the ancient and the contemporary China. The author reviews the basic patterns of classical society in China, remarks on a variety of cultural processes, and notes the continuities and contrasts in communist China. He...
- Global Culture. Swerdlow, Joel L. // National Geographic;Aug99, Vol. 196 Issue 2, p2
Focuses on the global changes occurring as the new millennium approaches. Effects of modern technology on human life spans and comfort; The destruction of remote cultures; Example of the Amungme people of Irian Jaya; What loss of traditional cultures means, including the loss of knowledge; The...
- Utopia Dispersed. Vattimo, Gianni // Diogenes;2006, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p18
The article focuses on the concept of utopia in relation with metaphysics. The utopian crisis in the post-modern culture is brought about by the subject of suspicion in relation to the how metaphysics id defined. Metaphysics is defined as disregarding being-itself in favor of process-of-being....
- What Changes in Cultural Influences Can Do. Ojemann, Ralph H. // Education Digest;Apr1947, Vol. 12 Issue 8, p14
This article deals with the influence of cultural changes on human behavior. Evidence has been accumulating which suggests that one important factor determining the growth of a person's behavior toward another is the insight he has into the factors which underlie and determine human behavior....
- AVŞA ADASI YİĞİTLER KÖYÜ GELENEKLERİNDE GEÇMİŞTEN GÜNÜMÜZE DEĞİŞİMLER. Ötken, Nihal // Journal of International Social Research;Jan2011, Vol. 4 Issue 16, p336
The globalization of the world, transformation process of traditional structure is perceptibly fast in Turkey and the world. In spite of developing technology and changing living conditions, traditions and customs in folk culture will be continue their existence in people's life tomorrow as...
- Social change, republican rhetoric, and the American... Morris, Richard J. // Journal of Social History;Winter97, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p420
Examines the social change, republican rhetoric and the American revolution in Salem, Massachusetts during the seventeenth century. Incident that marked a profound change in the social and political leadership of Salem; Historical background of Salem; People who no longer played a significant...
