primary goods and promoting individualism

CULTURAL VALUES IN ADVERTISEMENTS TO THE CHINESE X-GENERATION Promoting Modernity and Individualism

A content analysis of 463 ads examined the cultural values—modernity, tradition, individualism, and collectivism—promoted in Chinese advertising. Results indicate that both modernity and individualism values predominate in current Chinese advertising. These values are more pervasive in magazine advertisements, which target the Chinese XGeneration (aged 18–35 years with high education and income...

Individualism and Supervenience

Methodological Individualism and Generosity

Today a convergence between the fields of anthropology and economics has re-emerged after decades during which the dictates of methodological individualism, as strikingly elucidated by Kenneth Arrow, had seriously limited and hampered effective scholarship in studies of economic and social development in developing countries. A new generation of development economists represented by Spolaori an...

Comparison of Health Promoting Lifestyle and Self-Efficacy in Female Students with and Without Primary Dysmenorrhea

Background and Objective: Primary dysmenorrhea is one of the most common complaints in adolescent and young women which can have negative effects on their daily activities. Therefore, to improve their life style, preservation and advancement of their health status seems to be necessary. This aim of this study was to compare health promoting lifestyle and self-efficacy in females with and withou...

Promoting exercise in primary care.

Individualism, Externalism and Idiolectical Meaning

Semantic externalism in contemporary philosophy of language typically – and often tacitly – combines two supervenience claims about idiolectical meaning (i.e., meaning in the language system of an individual speaker). The first claim is that the meaning of a word in a speaker’s idiolect may vary without any variation in her intrinsic, physical properties. The second is that the meaning of a wor...