The development of human civilization convincingly proves to us that a person, being born in certain historical epoch country, prepares not for life general, but specific social and cultural conditions. Analysis the available philosophical, pedagogical, sociological literature areas scientific educational research indicates researchers focus their attention on problem responsibility modern Univ...

Social network systems are significant scaffolds for political, economic and socio-cultural change. This is in part due to the widespread availability of sophisticated network technologies and the concurrent emergence of rich media websites. Social network sites provide new opportunities for social-technological research. Since we can inexpensively collect electronic records—over extended perio...

Social media are assumed here as a blending of technology and social interaction for the co-creation of value, as in social networks. We discuss that in such environments, it is possible to find people with common interests that potentially can promote discussions, teaching and learning from each other. However, the approaches to recommend people to interact with in the social network still do ...

Social learning has allowed humans to build up extensive cultural repertoires, enabling them to adapt to a wide variety of environmental and social conditions. However, it is unclear which social learning strategies people use, especially in social contexts where their payoffs depend on the behaviour of others. Here we show experimentally that individuals differ in their social learning strateg...

In the last few years, theorists have argued that culture can shape processes of basic visual perception. This work has primarily focused on cultural influences in nonsocial domains, such as cross-cultural differences in seeing and attending to focal stimuli versus backgrounds. Recently, researchers have begun to examine how culture can shape processes of social perception. We review such evide...

PURPOSE The authors critically examined the quantitative measures of cultural competence most commonly used in medicine and in the health professions, to identify underlying assumptions about what constitutes competent practice across social and cultural diversity. METHOD A systematic review of approximately 20 years of literature listed in PubMed, the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied H...

In human societies biological processes vital for man's survival acquire social and cultural significance. Intake of food, sexual intercourse or elimination physiological phenomena which are universal for the entire living world become institutions regulated by cultural values and social rules.... Human beings experience hunger for food and sexual desire, but culture and society dictate to the ...