Intersex: cultural and social perspectives

Developmental Pathways to Self-regulation: Individual, Social and Cultural Perspectives

Self-regulation (SR) is a broad multifaceted construct, defined as “the primarily volitional cognitive and behavioral process through which an individual maintains levels of emotional, motivational, and cognitive arousal that are conducive to positive adjustment and adaptation” (Blair & Diamond, 2008). The studies presented in this thesis, as well as the future lines of development, are built a...

Guilt in India (social, Cultural and Psychological Perspectives)

Guilt according to the psychodynamic model occupies a pivotal spot in the understanding of depression. In fact, depressions with and depressions without guilt are often considered totally different entities according to some. I t is extremely interesting to observe that the occurrence of guilt across different cultural groups varies and that this phenomenon is essentially re' lated to the cultu...

Social and Cultural Sustainability

Of building cultural centers in all communities and with any kind of attitude has always been one of the designers’ issues. When we use the term in ordinary daily conversation, we often think of culture as an equivalent to the “higher things of the mind”- art, literature, music and painting. According to sociologists, the concept of culture includes such activities, but also far more. Culture c...

Sustainable Consumption: Perspectives from Social and Cultural Theory

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...