the shift in the axis of development in final decade of 20th century changed its centrality from social sphere to the cultural sphere. nowadays, cultural development is a precondition to achieve other components of development and those countries that are able to achieve cultural development will be regarded successful at individual and societal levels. the present paper reviews the situation a...

Crosscultural studies of cognitive development preceded studies of cultural leaming. The former studies made an implicit assumption that culture is external whereas development is internal. Bruner’s cultural psychology (1990) and Tomasello, Kruger, and Ratner’s cultural learning (1993) assume, by contrast, that culture is inside the individual, that human beings are intrinsically social and pri...

Short title: Language from cultural recycling of neural substrates Abstract Cultural evolution has emerged as a key source of explanation for the emergence of complex linguistic structure in the human lineage. In this chapter, we argue that the cultural evolution of language has been shaped by non-linguistic constraints deriving from the human brain. By analogy to reading, novel cortical networ...

In this paper, we argue that extant literature offers somewhat simplistic explanations of the antecedents of corruption. Drawing from institutional theory and the recent fine-grained formulations on the nature of corruption, we offer testable hypotheses that link Hofstede’s (1980) dimensions of national culture with the pervasiveness and arbitrariness of corruption prevalent in the institutions...

Received: March 18, 2015; Accepted: March 20, 2015; Published: March 22, 2015 If you read these pages, you certainly know the seminal book by Benoit B. Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982). In his Masterpiece, Benoit provides both a mathematical model and a description for many of the seemingly complex forms and patterns in nature, showing that fractal patterns are extremely famili...

throughout the evolution of organizational behavior sciences in recent years psychologists have this study has been done the aimed to evaluate the status of positive organizational behavior at cultural and industrial organizations of qom province with emphasis on social capital. the statistical population managers and employees of industrial and cultural organizations located in qom. the sample...

abstract airlines brands are getting new identities in the electronic age. because of growing new technologies like internet, there will be new strategic opportunities for airline companies to position their brand. on the other hand, religious tourism's industry has a sustainable market in iran, because of cultural issues. a lot of passengers prefer to do their religious travels with an ai...