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"Preface This book is concerned with how decisions are made within a specific culture and across different cultures. The primary focus of the Cross Cultural Decision Making field is specifically on the intersections between psychosocial theory provided from the social sciences a…
This volume provides a synthesis of the latest theoretical and empirical developments in social psychology through research on social comparison processes. It deals with the role of social comparison in the study of culural differences and similarities.
This volume continues the author's investigations into the differences among people within organizations in different cultures. The work represents a theory of self-presentation and face within a cross-cultural context and an approach ranging from the individual to the organizat…
Face, Harmony, and Social Structure continues author P. Christopher Earley's investigations of the differences among people within organizations in different cultures. The concept of "face," as set forth by Earley, is a reflection of the individual's struggle for self-definition…
Based on a need for knowledge about how different countries handle spatial planning issues, this study looks at national-level planning in ten developed countries. It also identifies the degrees of co-ordination between the different sectors, and evaluates the implementation pro…
Culture and subjective well-being
by Diener, Ed, Suh, Eunkook M.
fromWell-being and quality of life
The scientific study of what constitutes "the good life" forms the basis of this book. The contributors focus on cross-cultural comparisons of subjective well-being, analyzing the extent to which people across the world live by their values.
Culture and subjective well-being
by Diener, Ed, Suh, Eunkook M.
fromWell-being and quality of life
The scientific study of what constitutes "the good life" forms the basis of this book. The contributors focus on cross-cultural comparisons of subjective well-being, analyzing the extent to which people across the world live by their values.
Culture and subjective well-being
by Diener, Ed, Suh, Eunkook M.
fromWell-being and quality of life
The scientific study of what constitutes "the good life" forms the basis of this book. The contributors focus on cross-cultural comparisons of subjective well-being, analyzing the extent to which people across the world live by their values.
Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is…
This comprehensive scholarly reference work provides authoritative coverage of the full range of topics in the study of human sexual behaviour throughout the world. The Encyclopedia brings together an international team of 200 leading sexologists to provide complete view of the …