Historical, cultural and social perspectives on luxury seafood consumption in China

Sustainable Consumption: Perspectives from Social and Cultural Theory

Beyond Consumerism: New Historical Perspectives on Consumption

If there is one agreement between theorists of modernity and those of post-modernity, it is about the centrality of consumption to modern capitalism and contemporary culture. To thinkers as different as Werner Sombart, Emile Durkheim and Thorstein Veblen at the turn of the twentieth century, consumption was a decisive force behind modern capitalism, its dynamism and social structure. More recen...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

on the relationship between cultural, social intelligences and literary translation ability of iranian translation students

با توجه سرعت روز افزون جهانی سازی نیاز به مهارتهای میان فرهنگی نیز افزایش یافته است. از سوی دیگر تعاملات اجتماعی و نیازهای فرهنگی منوط به ترجمه است. بدین ترتیب مطالعه ترجمه از دیدگاه اجتماعی ضروری به نظر می رسد. برای نیل به این هدف، در تحقیق حاضر به بررسی رابطه همبستگی بین دو هوش فرهنگی و اجتماعی با توانش ترجمه ادبی دانشجویان (سال سوم) مترجمی زبان انگلیسی پرداخته شده است. همچنین قابلیت پیش بینی...

Historical and cultural background of education in China

In order to know the learning beliefs and behaviours of Chinese students, it is perhaps useful to look from a longer perspective; namely, from the historical development of education in China from the imperial days, to early republican years because men are following the customs of the cultural environment rather than creating the new rules out of nothing. To a certain extent, the change of Chi...