(Forthcoming, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2009, Vol. 9, 3-4) ABSTRACT Many theoretical claims about the folk concept of moral responsibility coming from the current literature are indeterminate because researchers do not clearly specify the folk concept of moral responsibility in question. The article pursues a cognitive approach to folk concepts that pays special attention to this indete...

Toplumda sosyal aktör olan bireyin süreç içerisinde sosyalleşmesi, geleneklerle bütünleşen kültürel özelliklerle oluşmuş toplumsal rol kalıplarının içselleştirilmesidir. Toplumsal hayatta cinsiyete dayalı roller ülkelerin kabulleri oranında paylaşılmıştır. Halkın sesi olarak toplumun yaşam biçimlerini, geleneklerini, örf ve adetlerini, tecrübe hikâyelerini, inançlarını, izlerini kapsayan türkül...

This contribution discusses the current status of folk costumes in south-eastern Moravia. At the theoretical level, it categorizes levels of clothing culture as they pertain to folk costumes and further addresses the political, social and economic conditions and associations that enable, or even support, the parallel existence of these categories of folk costumes. Although folk costumes, in the...

Concepts such as intention, motive, or forethought have generated a great deal of doubt, dispute, and confusion in legal decision making. Here we argue for an empirically based strategy of defining and using such mens rea concepts. Instead of the standard approach of settling these concepts by theoretical argument and the debaters' own intuitions, we rely on social psychological research to det...

This article examines the main elements of subject and spiritual culture Kazakh traditional wooden ornament. The study primordially preserved original wood products crafts carpenters 18th – early 20th centuries. Review works peoples Central Asia on art woodcarving, design decoration. Including «Kazakh yurt» by M. S. Mukanov, voluminous research work H. Argynbaev «Craft people», «The crafts» Zha...

Folk theories—untutored people’s (often implicit) theories about various features of the world—have been fashionable objects of inquiry in psychology for almost two decades now (e.g., Hirschfeld and Gelman 1994), and more recently they have been of interest in experimental philosophy (Nichols 2004). Folk theories of psychology, physics, biology, and ethics have all come under investigation. Fol...

There are several standard approaches to risk analysis recommended for use in information security, however, the actual application of risk analysis by security analysts follows an opaque mix of standard risk analysis procedures and adaptations based on an analyst’s understanding of risk. We refer to these approaches as Folk Risk Analysis. To understand folk risk analysis, we present the result...

abstract       this study shows that how each composer creates a colorful choral folksong picture, gives an individual  interpretation and new life to a folk melody, and also makes an independent musical work. the present article studies the choral arrangement of the iranian folk songs as a creative musical genre of the modern iranian music. the importance of this genre involves in several chal...