abstractthe aims of the present research included, investigating the possible relationships between the four aspects of cultural attitudes based on the hofsted model(masculinity, power distance, uncertainity avoidance and collectivism) and the staff's creativity in the ministry of welfare and social security. therefore, a statistical sample of 150 people was chosen from the employees of th...

Social affective expression is a main part of face-to-face interaction and it is highly linked to the language through the culture. This paper presents a study on Audio-Visual prosodic attitudes in Vietnamese, an under-resourced tonal language. Based on an audio-visual corpus of 16 attitudes, perception experiments were carried out with Vietnamese and French participants. The result analysis sh...

The current paper uses archival data to examine variations in Schwartz’s and Hofstede’s cultural value orientations and their relationship to attitudes toward immigration and multiculturalism reported in the Eurobarometer Survey [Attitudes towards minority groups in the European Union: a special analysis of the Eurobarometer 2000 opinion poll on behalf of the European Monitoring Centre on Racis...

SvenskMud is an Internet-accessible Multi-User Domain (MUD) system. But, in contrast to 99% of all Internet-accessible MUDs, SvenskMud is not a global community. SvenskMud is instead the first vernacular (i.e. non-English speaking) MUD in the world, and the only Swedish-speaking MUD in Sweden today. This paper problematizes four questions regarding cultural attitudes and their relationship to C...

In this empirical paper we attempt to measure the separate influence on civic engagement of educational attainment and cultural transmission of civic attitudes. Unlike most of the previous empirical works on this issue, we are able to approximate the cultural transmission of civic attitudes. We observe that civic returns to education are overstated when the transmission of civic attitudes is ig...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of cultural values on motivations and attitudes toward Social Networking Sites (SNSs) in the Arab world, and the factors affecting the continuity of membership value. Online questionnaire was used to collect data from the Arab Facebook members. Structural Equation Modeling, using EQS was conducted to analyze the data. The results indicat...

The study of globalization in contemporary world is one of main concerns in cultural studies. This problem especially in relation with young people has more importance, therefore the study of globalization&#39s cultural effects among young generation, especially academic young as a problem is scientifically researchable. This study has been used theories of Ronald Robertson and Stuart Hall. Thi...

Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives’ attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into acco...

This paper discusses ways that shape attitudes to technology from a socio-cultural perspective. Differing attitudes are explored in relation to the cultures of education and ICT use in education. The role and development of the spreadsheet is taken as an example of a "cultural tool" and its relevance to education is questioned. A way of developing ICT embedded in a educational cultures by adopt...