Social Motives and Their Development in Cultural Context

Social Motives and Their Development in Cultural Context

This paper deals with differences in social motives between cultures and with respect to their development. First, social motives are described as complex functional systems. Then aggressiveness and achievement motivation are dealt with as examples. Assumptions about biological factors are discussed and cultural differences are reported. Based on cross-cultural research, variations in early mot...

Cultural Development and Social Development in Iran

Cultural Development and Social Development in Iran

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

cultural development and social development in iran

in this study the relation between cultural development and social development in i an is studied with secondary analysis method. statistical data of this study is based on previous experimental researches, especially national survey of iranians cultural behaviors in 1378 and national surveys of iranians values and attitudes in 1379 and 1382. for measuring the cultural development, some element...