BACKGROUND Few studies have addressed the challenges associated with international students as they adapt to studying medicine in a new host country. Higher level institutions have increasing numbers of international students commencing programmes. This paper explores the experiences of a cohort of students in the early years of medical school in Ireland, where a considerable cohort are from an...

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ture and social structure—going all the way back to the classic statements by Marx and Engels (1939) and Durkheim ([1933] 1997:215, 276)—aim at explaining the connection between these two domains by highlighting the ways in which patterns of social relations affect the composition and structure of cultural systems (Bearman 1993; Douglas 1978; Martin 2002). Some of the more ambitious projects, s...

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Appropriate spending of leisure time has an important  role in the formation of  youth personality. Different types of capital- social, cultural and economic- have implications for  social status of individual actor. Bourdieu  ’s analysis of leisure time is based on cultural capital. The main goals of this study are the examination of the relationships between leisure time activities, cultural ...

The present study deals with German-language cross-cultural research in different fields o· psychology which attempts to achieve one Or more goals of cross-cultural psychology First, methodological problems are discussed, followed by a selective presentation of cross cultural research in personality, clinical, ethological, developmental, and social psychology The theoretical and methodological ...

A persistent, but little researched, theme in demographic transition theory is that of transition, especially fertility transition, lagging for cultural reasons behind changes in material circumstances. A sub-theme is that of the lag time being shortened by social upheaval challenging the cultural retardants and thus causing demographic behaviour to catch up with economic reality. This paper ex...