We develop a model of retirement and human capital investment to study the effects of tax and retirement policies. Workers choose the supply of raw labor (career length) and also the human capital embodied in their labor. Our model explains a significant fraction of the US-Europe difference in schooling and retirement. The model predicts that reforms of the European retirement policies modeled ...

Life history theory in biology presents evolutionary explanations for the timing of life events, with a particular focus on age schedules of fertility and mortality and growth. Fundamental to life history theory is the recognition that natural selection on the timing of life events, such as growth, maturation, reproduction, and death, depends on the ecology of energy production and morta...

Abstract This article discusses the implications of recording and digitizing a variety cultural contemporary dance performance practices, core to European project known as WhoLoDancE, which focused on issues reuse, ownership, property, responsibility. The recordings subsequent processing material into digital data raised questions about responsibilities dancers who have contributed their projec...

Tangible, embedded and embodied technologies can enrich cultural heritage sites. Their design requires a solid understanding of the specific site, the needs and interests of user communities and stakeholders. Here we investigate how the physical and socio-cultural context influence potential design solutions despite of a seemingly similar context: historic cemeteries.

Understanding residents’ attitudes is critical for successfully developing cultural tourism in aboriginal protected areas. This study developed an integration model combining two theories to identify the key determinants of indigenous residents’ attitudes toward cultural tourism development. Social exchange theory stresses the impact of the benefits derived from tourism on indigenous residents’...

Bourdieu and Passeron (1973) famously defined cultural capital as the accumulated cultural knowledge that confers power and status. Their original work explained many of the intangible advantages that allowed the upper class to obtain better status jobs, education, etc. Here we extend this concept to include “computational capital”—the concepts, skills, and other resources that facilitate parti...

How do English as a lingua franca (ELF) speakers achieve multimodal cohesion on the basis of their specific interests and cultural backgrounds? From a dialogic and collaborative view of communication, this study focuses on how verbal and nonverbal modes cohere together during intercultural conversations. The data include approximately 160-minute transcribed video recordings of ELF interactions ...

in recent decades, the concept of cultural capital has created a lot of scientific studies over the world in the sociology of education. these studies mainly based on the two models: bourdieu's cultural reproduction and dimaggio's cultural mobility. these have achieved different results. this study aimed at evaluating the theoretical models in an empirical condition. middle and high school stud...

Do human beings need rituals? Have they become an obsolete “evolutionary appendix” in the modern world, or are they an indispensable part of the human condition? Right at the start, I wish to adopt a clear stance with regard to this repeatedly controversial discussion in ritual studies: From the perspective of cultural anthropology, I assume that human beings need rituals, that they are an anth...