In this chapter I try to provide a systematic overview of various aspects of cultural theories – as they have developed in different disciplines and cultures. A variety of cultural theories have dealt with the phenomenon of culture from different epistemological and historical perspectives. The article discusses definitions of concepts of culture in a comparative analysis, as they have develope...

Background With the development of psychiatric science the group of Personality Disorders becomes clearly defined and within the various existing classifications a well-defined group stands out, characterized mainly by the cold affect and by the lack of empathy. The historical overview of the Paranoid and the Schizoid Personality Disorders reveals extremely high historical (temporal) stability ...

This chapter surveys a growing body of evidence showing the impacts that historical events can have on current economic development. Over the past two decades historical persistence has been documented in a wide variety of time periods and locations, and over remarkably long time horizons. Although progress continues to be made identifying and understanding underlying mechanisms, the existing e...

Herein we investigate the historical origins of the Fibonacci numbers. After emphasising the importance of these numbers, we examine a standard conjecture concerning their origin only to demonstrate that it is not supported by historical chronology. Based on more recent findings, we propose instead an alternative conjecture through a close examination of the historical and historical/mathematic...

Recent work (Rychlowska et al., 2015) demonstrated the power of a relatively new cultural dimension, historical heterogeneity, in predicting cultural differences in the endorsement of emotion expression norms. Historical heterogeneity describes the number of source countries that have contributed to a country's present-day population over the last 500 years. People in cultures originating from ...

The designation "Iranian Armenian community" already encompasses important social and anthropological presumptions and stances. The important impact of Armenians in spreading of innovation in socio-cultural and economic sphere as a religious, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic minority in Iran is discussed by examining the characterization, multiple identity, history, and economic activities. In ...

This paper locates concept mapping within the theoretical framework of cultural historical activity theory. Cultural historical activity theory provides an analytic tool for understanding how concept maps can act as ‘stimulimeans’: a cultural artefact that can mediate the performance of subjects (Vygotsky, 1978). Concept maps possess Vygotsky’s double nature: they not only enable students to en...

This paper serves as an opportunity to pull together some thoughts and questions about modes of incorporation as an explanation for ethnic differences in behavior. Specifically, I ask just what is the status of cultural explanations for ethnic behavior if ethnic behavior is approached from a modes-of-incorporation perspective. I ask this question both in connection with individuals of the immig...