Sociological research has arrived at an intellectual crossroad where it faces the challenge of understanding how the dynamics of globalization have joined the forces of modernization in inducing social change. In this paper, using a survey conducted in Pudong, Shanghai, in 2001, which had captured conditions of the area’s rapid transformations in a globalizing city, first, we have uncovered two...

Cultural products such as song lyrics, television shows, and books reveal cultural differences, including cultural change over time. Two studies examine changes in the use of individualistic words (Study 1) and phrases (Study 2) in the Google Books Ngram corpus of millions of books in American English. Current samples from the general population generated and rated lists of individualistic word...

The purpose of this study was to compare the preference/or primary and secondary control among adolescents in "individualistic" (Canada. USA. Germany) and "collectivistic" (Malaysia and Japan) cultures. A total of 536 persons (195 males and 341 females) participated in the study and answered two questionnaires measuring control orientation. As predicted. adolescents in collectivistic cultures s...

Introduction: People’s preferences for residential environments have long been predicted on the basis of sociodemographic characteristics alone. Recently, however, some researchers argue that these variables no longer suffice to explain and predict preferences and that they should be supplemented with lifestyle variables. The current study explores this assumption for a number of housing prefer...

BACKGROUND Social anxiety is assumed to be related to cultural norms across countries. Heinrichs et al. [2006: Behav Res Ther 44:1187-1197] compared individualistic and collectivistic countries and found higher social anxiety and more positive attitudes toward socially avoidant behaviors in collectivistic rather than in individualistic countries. However, the authors failed to include Latin Ame...

In this paper, we consider predators hunting on prey gathered in groups and such way exhibiting the possibility of reducing pressure. To model feature, however, depart from Holling type II (HTII) response function, that assume a sufficiently large set could respond to individualistic attacks therefore induce predator renounce. The basic idea is described at first simple two-populations predator...