This study investigated the cross-cultural and intra cultural diversity of mothers' beliefs and values regarding child rearing, education, and the causes of language impairment. Thirty Mexican-American and 30 Anglo-American mothers of children with language impairments completed 2 questionnaires, and 10 randomly selected mothers from each group participated in an interview. In addition, the Mex...

Parenting style, as a widely studied topic, has been used by researchers and educators in the US to predict students’ academic achievements. Despite its theoretical and practical significance, no much work has been conducted to test the generalizability of parenting research framed in the Western culture to the Chinese population. Parenting styles in this study were measured by the PAQ (parenti...

When the Soviet Union collapsed, most Russians had lived their entire lives in a quintessentially authoritarian culture. Having been socialized in this environment, how could citizens acquire the attitudes and behaviors necessary to support a new, more pluralistic regime? Cultural theories of political learning emphasize the primacy of childhood socialization and hold that altering initial atti...

FirstpubIished in Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences Vol. IX (1941), thearticle is a large-scale investigation of that "fetish "of technique, ortechnical efficiency, which, after 1941, represented for critical theory, especially for Marcuse, the key ideological replacement of the commodity fetish under modern industralized authoritarian states. With respect to Marcuse's better-known late...

Many scholars argue that the political regime in contemporary Russia exemplifies the global phenomenon of electoral authoritarianism. But, what are the major features of such a regime in the case of Russia? Why and how did it proceed through a life cycle of emergence, development, and decay? And how might it evolve in the foreseeable future? This article seeks answers to these questions. B the ...

Modern psychiatry, which once focused only on the containment and "cure" of madness, has evolved into a mental health industry, where almost every aspect of human life, may be cast as a "mental disorder". In Western countries, a narcissistic appetite for self-improvement and "well-being" has evolved over the past 50 years, mirroring the emergence of the celebrity culture. These developments app...

The interpersonal trust of 296 Brazilian development bankers was related to indicators of cultural modernism, satisfaction with supervisory behaviors, and individual reactions to different organizational climates. Contrary to theories which associate trust with national "culture" or "modernism", the Brazilian bankers scored higher on a four-item trust scale than Peruvian white-collar workers, a...

Psychother Politics Int. 2017;e1409. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1409 wileyonlinel Abstract The political scene in the USA has changed dramatically with the election of Donald Trump, and antidemocratic forces appear to be gaining momentum in other countries as well. Using a post‐traumatic lens to view these political forces, the author summarizes social psychology research on authoritarianism, ...

Показаны результаты исследования представлений сотрудников производственного предприятия об организационной культуре и стиле руководства их связи с удовлетворенностью трудом. Методами выступали социально-психологическая диагностика опрос. Выявлены согласованные представления о реальной предпочитаемой культуре. Авторитарный демократический стили выступили посредником в удовлетворенности различны...

Tanzania's ruling party has long employed authoritarian methods to stay in power, but the 2020 election was a turning point. The apparently manipulated results at scale amid program of oppression. This constitutes change regime from one which permits minimal electoral competition does not. is revelatory event that sheds light on party's strategy power and possible futures. It seems intended bre...