Other Modernisms - Modernism’s Others

Chinese and Other Asian Modernisms: A Comparative View of Art-Historical Contexts in the Twentieth Century

Using a comparative analysis approach, this article examines the development, characteristics and issues concerning the discourse of modern Asian art in the twentieth century, with the aim of bringing into picture the place of Asia in the history of modernism. The wide recognition of the Western modernist canon as centre and universal displaces the contribution and significance of the non-Weste...

Comparative Modernisms: the Global South (ccs 3356/wcl 3397)

The others, each other, and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis

1. Sentences containing reciprocals (henceforth reciprocal sentences, RS) notoriously allow a plethora of different readings in different contexts (Fiengo and Lasnik, 1973; Langendoen, 1978; Dalrymple et al., 1998, a.o.). Two distinct theoretical strategies have been pursued in response to that conundrum. S1) After Langendoen (1978), several proposals strive to reduce semantic variability of RS...

Attitudes toward Others Depend upon Self and Other Causal Uncertainty

People who are high in causal uncertainty doubt their own ability to understand the causes of social events. In three studies, we examined the effects of target and perceiver causal uncertainty on attitudes toward the target. Target causal uncertainty was manipulated via responses on a causal uncertainty scale in Studies 1 and 2, and with a scenario in Study 3. In Studies 1 and 2, we found that...

تحلیل وضعیت سرمایه اجتماعی در شهر کرمان

Objective: The conceptualization of Social Capital impressed by the studies of thinkers and theorists in various districed of social sciences ether in the past or modern era. Today this concept has standed as an important role in researches, polices and planings. Therefore the study of Social Capital in Kerman City has done. Method: The method which is used in this research is Survey and q...