نتایج جستجو برای: abstractâ cultural norms state human

تعداد نتایج: 2554340  

2011
Jason DeBacker Bradley T. Heim Anh Tran Ray Fisman Mihir Desai Haeil Jung Anna Paulson

We study how cultural norms and enforcement policies influence illicit corporate activities. Using confidential Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit data, we show that corporations with owners from countries with higher corruption norms evade more tax in the U.S. This effect is strong for small corporations and decreases as the size of the corporation increases. In the mid-2000s, the United Sta...

2006
Peter J. Richerson Dwight Collins Russell M. Genet

Most observers have agreed that the theory of human behavior derived from the assumption of selfish rationality is inadequate to describe human behavior and human organizations (Rousseau et al., 1998). The issue is what other approach to theory building will provide an adequate theoretical toolkit for human behavior. We argue in this essay that evolutionary theory is the proper foundation for t...

2007
Nina Shah

The question of how institutions begin to change has become of central concern among institutional scholars in recent years. A growing body of scholarly work has begun to shed light on how institutions begin to decline and become replaced by other institutional forms and practices in a variety of contexts. Much of this scholarly research has examined change in broader, field level institutions ...

پایان نامه :وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری - دانشگاه شهید مدنی آذربایجان - دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی 1392

when we return to the concept of poetry and the age-old discussion about the uselessness or the usefulness of the poets to the private and public state of human beings, originating from plato and aristotles views about poets respectively, there emerges the question of the role of poetry in human beings lives. in the same manner, with the advance of technology and the daily progress and improvem...

Journal: :Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2006
Tia Powell

This paper examines two topics in Japanese medical ethics: non-disclosure of medical information by Japanese physicians, and the history of human rights abuses by Japanese physicians during World War II. These contrasting issues show how culture shapes our view of ethically appropriate behavior in medicine. An understanding of cultural context reveals that certain practices, such as withholding...

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2017
Susan A Gelman Steven O Roberts

It is widely recognized that language plays a key role in the transmission of human culture, but relatively little is known about the mechanisms by which language simultaneously encourages both cultural stability and cultural innovation. This paper examines this issue by focusing on the use of language to transmit categories, focusing on two universal devices: labels (e.g., shark, woman) and ge...

پایان نامه :وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری - دانشگاه تهران 1376

‏‎‏‎utopia has, for four centuries, accompanied that hope of progress and that striving for betterment. it now straggles against a widespread sense that this has been an illusion, or an impossible dream. the utopian idea can never entirely disappear, but utopia as a form of the social imagination has clearly weakened. if it cannot instill its vision in the public consciousness, the consequences...

Journal: :Current opinion in psychology 2016
Shinobu Kitayama Anthony King Ming Hsu Israel Liberzon Carolyn Yoon

Previous research in cultural psychology shows that cultures vary in the social orientation of independence and interdependence. To date, however, little is known about how people may acquire such global patterns of cultural behavior or cultural norms. Nor is it clear what genetic mechanisms may underlie the acquisition of cultural norms. Here, we draw on recent evidence for certain genetic var...

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