‘We laughed until we forgot what we came for’: Davy Rees—a comedian of the nineteenth-century Irish stage

The research on implicit attitudes (IA) become more and more important in modern times. Researchers have more findings on the social and cultural dimensions of IA. However, a study that combines the social and cultural dimensions is rare. This study review combined six IA studies that separately focused on cultural and social dimensions to discuss their relationships. All the used studies are experimental research. All studies used questionnaires to measure explicit attitudes and the IAT test to collect IA. For children’s participants, researchers use oral questions and SI-IAT. Cultural backgrounds influence people’s IA. Diverse cultures lead people to prefer different behaviors or personalities in their IA. However, the influence of cultural background is not stable. Complex social environments cover the influence of culture on IA. Local social norms in closed social environments changed people’s IA from broad cultural backgrounds. Social distance (SD) acts differently with culture or social norms. There is a range of SD. Below or beyond it, both influence people’s IA toward diverse social groups. Self-awareness of IA is theoretically based on people’s self-appraisals of cultural and social backgrounds. However, there is evidence that people predict IA with simple mental associations. This provides new perspectives on future studies about social and cultural dimensions of IA.

The Sears List of Subject Headings was first published in 1923 to provide guidance to subject catalogers in small libraries in the United States. The Sears List, now in its 22nd edition, is still widely used for subject cataloging in small- and medium-sized libraries and in children’s and school libraries, but the Sears List is not nearly as widely studied as the more comprehensive Library of Congress Subject Headings. This paper aims to expand the critical discussion of the Sears List and to contextualize the List in contemporary cultural and social dimensions by reviewing its history, theory, and design. The paper looks specifically at how Black people and culture, Indigenous peoples and cultures, and LGBTQ+ people and cultures are represented in the Sears List throughout its history and how warrant, design, and theory inform this representation.

This article aims to discuss the extent to which social and cultural dimensions have been taken into account in the whole process of negotiations and agreements regarding the mitigation the impacts of and adaptation to climate change. Almost 18 years have passed since the establishment of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1995, and 18 annual Conference of Parties (COP) have been held since then to set up agreements on the mitigation of climate change, but long and heated debates had taken place as to how to implement the agreements. It has been widely argued that social and cultural dimensions may have significant contribution in constraining the implementation of the agreements on the emission reduction of green house gasses (GSGs), especially when national interests have become a matter of non-negotiable. On the other hand some experts believe that social structures and cultural frameworks of individual countries could become the bases for concerted efforts by local communities to mitigate and adapt to climate change beyond the large scheme of the international agreements. Meanwhile Indonesia can play a strategic role in mitigating the impacts of global warming given the vast forest area at its disposal and can reap the benefits from carbon trading when land disputes with indigenous people and forest dependent communities could be settled. Keywords: environmental degradation, climate change, social dimension, cultural dimension, mitigation, adaptation, indigenous people

Contemporary society puts forward new expectations for psychologists, the key among which is the development of competencies that not only determine the professionalism of a psychologist, but also must meet the dynamics of changes in social, cultural and other spheres of society. And in this context, it is interesting to consider an innovative approach to the training of future psychologists through integration of the embodiment approach and creativity.Within scientific paradigms, the embodiment perspective acknowledges that the body serves a function that transcends its role as a mere instrument for interaction with the environment. The concept of "embodiment" is fundamentally anchored in post-phenomenology and modern explorations of bodily existence, transcending mere biological considerations. It involves not just the awareness of one’s own body, but also how this body engages with its surrounding environment, which includes various social, cultural, and historical dimensions. The notion of embodiment highlights the significance of bodily experience as an integrated phenomenon that merges the physical and the conscious, influenced by an array of cultural and social elements. This idea is essential for a sophisticated understanding of bodily experience, which can be viewed as a complex interaction between the body’s physical attributes and the social frameworks that shape those attributes.Analyzing the historical and social dimensions of the concept of embodiment reveals its inherently dynamic character, influenced by interactions with other individuals, social institutions, and cultural contexts. This concept encompasses a spectrum of experiences, including physical sensations, psychological responses, emotional states, and cognitive activities. Furthermore, embodiment is intertwined with societal perceptions of the body, which are shaped by factors such as gender, age, race, and social status. Cultural stereotypes, for instance, significantly affect how individuals experience their bodies differently based on gender.The embodiment framework serves as a valuable tool for examining how social and cultural transformations affect physicality, gender roles, identities, sexuality, and other critical aspects of human life. Сreativity, akin to intelligence, operates through shared underlying mechanisms, and is crucial for promoting individual adaptability and flexibility. Boden (1998) proposed a dual framework for understanding creativity, distinguishing between psychological “P-creativity,” which pertains to individual acts of novelty, and historical “H-creativity,” which encompasses the creation of ideas and artifacts that are significantly novel within the context of a culture over time.Contemporary sociocultural frameworks, as discussed by Glăveanu (2010, 2011, 2020), along with theories of 4E cognition put forth by Malinin (2019), suggest that creative cognition plays a multifaceted role. This role encompasses not just the generation of innovative ideas but also extends to offering essential guidance for the subsequent actions that one might undertake. These frameworks emphasize the interconnectedness of cognition, creativity, and social contexts in shaping creative processes. Despite differing philosophical origins, both the sociocultural framework – particularly cultural-historical activity theory – and 4E cognition converge on similar methodological approaches. The 4E cognition paradigm integrates four contemporary human cognition frameworks: embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended (Newen et al., 2018). In this context, creativity functions as a mechanism for adjusting to particular circumstances that necessitate innovation, originality, and emotional adaptability within the professional practice of a psychologist. The article presents an examination of the theoretical and methodological aspects concerning the interplay between the embodiment approach and creativity, specifically highlighting their influence on the development of a psychologist's professional competence. It emphasizes the significance of bodily experiences in cognitive processes, emotional comprehension, the generation of novel concepts, and the enhancement of reflective capacities. This analysis underscores the critical function of bodily-cognitive-socialgender interactions in fostering emotional literacy and adaptive thinking, which are two fundamental elements constituting a psychologist's professional competence.The article articulates that embodied experience plays a crucial role in acquiring new methods of professional engagement, particularly in contexts involving trauma and interpersonal dynamics. The authors highlight that creativity predominantly stems from sensorimotor experiences, suggesting that the embodiment approach provides significant opportunities for the evolution of psychologists' professional identity.Within the framework of contemporary society, characterized by numerous transformations and often distressing experiences, the synthesis of embodiment and creativity emerges as a crucial element. This relationship equips future practitioners with the ability to deliver psychological support while simultaneously fostering resilience, empathy, and self-regulation. Consequently, it establishes a cohesive interplay among the physical, mental, and environmental spheres, contributing to a more holistic understanding of well-being.The authors highlight the practicality of fostering creative potential and integrating the embodiment approach within psychologist training programs. This initiative is poised to enhance the effectiveness of professional practice while simultaneously augmenting clients' quality of life by offering novel strategies to navigate contemporary psychological challenges.

Despite the enormous global problems linked not only to the ecological sphere, but also to the environmental, political, economic, social and cultural dimensions, humanity continues to consider that the discourse of sustainability has a close and unique relationship with nature. It is not like this. This text aims to make a deeper reflection on the historical context, interests and power relations that derive from considering sustainability as an alternative development model. More than a neutral discourse, sustainability must always land in a specific historical and spatial context, which allows it to adapt, and then perhaps become more operational and functional. The hypothesis places the media as simplistic and, at times partial interlocutors; but definitely not neutral, which prevents the individual from understanding the complex dynamics of the planet and the possible solutions to current problems. It is not only the fact that the media define what sustainability is, it is also important to reflect on how and why they do it.

The Citarum watershed is the longest in West Java Province. It is used as a source of raw water for drinking water, irrigation water for hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice fields, fisheries, industrial raw water, and hydroelectric power plants. The high population and industry growth at the outskirts of the Citarum watershed, which is not accompanied by good waste management, also results in high pollution in the Citarum watershed. Various efforts to handle the issue have been carried out since 1989 until the present; however, this problem still needs to be solved. One of the approaches to overcome environmental pollution that has been conducted is to develop an environmentally-cultured village. This study aims to determine the sustainability level of environmentally-cultured villages in the Upper Citarum watershed viewed from ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions using a multidimensional scaling (MDS) approach with the Rapid Appraisal Technique for Ecovillage (RAPVIL) software (version 1.0). The result shows that the multidimensional sustainability of ecovillage development in the Upper Citarum watershed, West Java Province is “fairly sustainable” for the cultural dimension and “poorly sustainable” for the ecological, social, and economic dimensions. This result shows that ecovillage development still requires support from various stakeholders to improve its sustainability status. The cultural dimension has the highest value due to the local cultural values, including a value system, traditions, languages, norms, and customs that have grown in the community. Meanwhile, the social dimension has the lowest sustainability value, influenced by the low level of community participation in ecovillage development.

The modern-day ecological crisis and gradual degradation of the environment, mostly due to anthropogenic effects, surpass other contemporary societal issues. Despite being largely perceived through a (bio)medical lens, the complexity of climate change as a topic is seen in different trends concerning its impact on the living world. These include historical, economic, cultural and social dimensions. Therefore, there is a need for an integrated and interdisciplinary approach resulting in more comprehensive measures to allow society to recover, but which also exploit the positive potential of climate change, through models and methods that the New Public Health can provide. Starting from the definition of the New Public Health, this paper combines and connects two topics, New Public Health and climate change, that are rarely explored together in the literature. The aim is to fill the gaps in the public health literature, where climate change is frequently viewed solely as a medical or health issue; here, we frame it as a critical challenge encompassing social, humanistic, and environmental dimensions. In addition, we offer a conceptual contribution that emphasizes their interconnection within the context of contemporary challenges.

Religion in a Globalizing WorldrnToday, globalization is perhaps one of the most studied and talked about topics in the world. Globalization affects all social institutions and structures positively or negatively but strongly. For this reason, quite different ideas are put forward about the concept. For example, one group sees globalization as an inevitable and rapid process of change and argues that it is impossible to resist it. Another group claims that globalization is nothing but a new form of imperialism that is completely negative and must be combated. Globalization, which has recently gained significant momentum with the development of mass media, affects all countries of the world to a greater or lesser extent with its economic, social, political and cultural dimensions. So what is globalization? Globalization is undoubtedly a multidimensional process. It would be wrong to separate it from its historical context and evaluate it one-sidedly. Globalization is a process in which technological developments as well as historical and social developments are decisive, and societies and cultures interact with each other very intensely. One of the social institutions affected by globalization is religion. While this interaction process sometimes creates a homogenizing effect, it sometimes offers opportunities for local beliefs and cultures on a global scale. In this respect, sometimes the religions of dominant cultures affect local religions, and sometimes local religions can reach a level that threatens them. In this study, globalization was examined in terms of its political, economic, cultural and technological dimensions. Then, the interaction and relationship between these dimensions of globalization and religion are discussed from a sociological perspective. Finally, the relationship between globalization and religion in Türkiye is emphasized.rnKeywords: Sociology of Religion, Globalization, Religion, Culture, Secularization, Religious Groups.

A continent wide perspective, based on a secondary analysis of data provided by European Union institutions is the point of departure of the study reported in this paper. National Dimensions of Culture proposed by Gert Hofstede are correlated with country by country results of the 7th European Social Survey (2014). This informs on cultural determinants of the European Social Dimensions reported on the ESS. Moreover, considering data from the 6th European Working Conditions Survey (2015), working conditions, on a country by country basis as well, are further considered and analyzed from the perspective of national cultural dimensions and from the perspective of social dimensions. This multiple pronged study of association unveils interesting associations between selected dimensions of culture and working conditions, as well as between selected dimensions of national culture and social dimensions, and also, between social dimensions and working conditions, taking the European country as a unit of analysis.

The objective was to establish the impact of the Management of the tourist System on the environmental awareness of the population of Lunahuana-Cañete period 2022, the method that was used is a basic study, the design without any experiment, in a single time and descriptive, quantitative and deductive approach. The population and test was 120 workers who work in the field of tourism, gastronomy, a proven non-probabilistic sensible was used. As a result, 86,6 % of those surveyed state that the management of the Tourism system is well implemented and basically implemented, both the cultural, economic, environmental and social dimensions are between basically implemented and very well implemented. The environmental awareness variable was qualified with 60,0 % at a medium level, 36,7 % at a high level, and 3,3 % with a low level, and the cognitive, affective, active, and behavioral dimensions were qualified as a high level on average. greater than 70 %. The inferential statistical results indicate that the management of the Tourist System significantly influences the environmental awareness of the inhabitant, in the same way for the specific premise 1, it is established that the cultural dimension is significantly related to the environmental awareness of the inhabitant, for the specific premise 2 , it is guaranteed that the cultural dimension is significantly related to the environmental awareness of the population, for specific premise 3, it is guaranteed. The environmental dimension is related to the environmental awareness of the population. And finally for the specific premise 4 it is guaranteed that the social dimension is related to the environmental awareness of the resident, all the premises or hypotheses are about the resident of Lunahuana, Cañete, Lima, 2022

Students' conceptions of health: A cross educational stage survey

Quantitative models of social differences have not only made major contributions to the fields of cross-cultural anthropology, psychology and sociology, but also have allowed for interdisciplinary studies that bring together engineering, life sciences, and social sciences. In this study, the authors use a data science approach to discover a set of quantitative social dimensions based on the World Values Survey, a nationally representative survey covering 60 countries and 90,000 individuals. Five national social dimensions, representing 198 questions and 56 countries are discovered using multidimensional item response theory (MIRT). They are (1) Religiosity, (2) Neutrality, (3) Fairness, (4) Skepticism, and (5) Societal Tranquility. This approach is unique from previous quantitative models because it groups responses by country and analyzes binary, nominal, and ordinal survey questions. It is possible today due to recent advancements in computing power and programming. Furthermore, this methodology tests the validity of previous quantitative dimensions and finds that some of the existing social and cultural dimensions are not clearly discernable. Therefore, this model provides not only more a rigorous methodology but also new social dimensions which more accurately quantify underlying differences across countries in the World Values Survey. Like other quantitative cross-cultural models, this model is a deeply simplified representation of national social differences. However, it is a useful tool for modeling national differences and can be used to help us understand the impacts of social preferences and values on different political, economic, and development variables.

This research paper is based on the translation of the literary text between the cultural dimension and the importance of the recipient. Since the history of translation studies has witnessed the three prominent turns, the cultural and social dimension has become the pillar of each translational activity, as the translator cannot proceed without returning to these two dimensions in order to obtain a translation that balances the basic elements of both the source text and the target text, including the linguistic and cultural elements. Through this intervention, we aim to highlight some of the concepts that are relevant to the field of our research, such as receiving translations in the target social culture and the difference between taking this element into account and ignoring it.That is why our study is divided as follows: The theoretical aspect of its concepts and everything related to it in order to avoid any form of wrong practice on the reality of the cultural and social dimension for the target recipient, especially since the translation of a literary text is one of the most difficult types of translation that requires the translator’s high skills. As for the practical aspect of the study, it relies on the comparative descriptive approach of literary texts translation reality under the sociological turn of translation studies. We will highlight the examples that we will extract from Mohamed Dib’s novel and analyze them to reach the results of this recent shift in the translation field and answer its main problem: What is the element of receiving translations in the target social culture? What are the difficulties of translating the literary text between the cultural dimension and the target recipient?

Tunisia’s northwestern region offers a rich and diverse civilization heritage and cultural potential. However, it has been socially and economically marginalised since the 70s. This study explores the link between urban cultural heritage and the construction of collective identity, emphasising the potential of built heritage to foster sustainable community-based development. In addition to physical attributes, the literature highlights the importance of social interactions in shaping territorial identity. Identity, in this context, is not static but a dynamic territorial construction that integrates architectural, urban, and social dimensions. The cities of El Kef and Tabarka serve as case studies of spatially and culturally marginalised areas, facing significant challenges to both tangible and intangible heritage. With a negative population growth rate (−0.36% between 2004 and 2014) and the lowest economic development indicator nationally (0.3% in 2012), these cities reflect the urgent need for an alternative approach. Through spatial diagnosis, interviews, and stakeholder engagement, the research demonstrates that a renewed territorial model—grounded in heritage valorization and local identity—can support inclusive and adaptive development. Key findings reveal a generational gap in the perception and representation of heritage between younger and older residents. This indicates that cultural identity is not a static inheritance but a dynamic process requiring active community investment. Ultimately, the study concludes that urban identity assets critically influence the capacity of a community to build a shared vision for the enhancement of its territorial identity. This reconnection between territory, memory, and planning enables a collective reappropriation of space, proposing a long-term vision for heritage-integrated urban regeneration.

PurposeThis viewpoint adds context and variety to the “decolonizing international business” debate by engaging in a discussion of the decolonial thinking approach and proposing a broader framework for analysing the link between international business (IB) activities on the one hand and colonisation and decolonisation on the other. The purpose of this paper is to inspire a more intensive engagement of IB scholarship with issues related to colonisation and decolonisation.Design/methodology/approachThis paper involves taking a reflexive review on recent calls to decolonise IB, contextualising and extending the decolonisation debate in the academic field of IB.FindingsThis paper argues that the current discussion of decolonisation should be extended beyond the decolonial thinking approach and its focus on knowledge and the cultural dimension towards a broader framework that covers both colonisation and decolonisation as well as the respective economic, political, social and cultural dimensions. It introduces the varieties of colonisation and decolonisation approach, which considers the complexities of the phenomenon and covers the economic, social, political and cultural dimensions.Research limitations/implicationsThrough its focus on foreign market expansion, international trade, global value chains and formal and informal institutions in the business environment, the academic field of IB provides several starting points for research on the link between IB activities and colonisation and decolonisation. The decolonisation debate can be used to inspire future research in IB, for example, with respect to the role of multinational corporations in colonisation and neo-colonisation processes and the implications of the emerging multipolar world order for IB.Practical implicationsIB scholars will be better informed when engaging in discussions on decolonisation and the decolonise IB project. This paper suggests considering both colonisation and decolonisation processes as well as the respective economic, political, social and cultural dimensions in research and teaching. The varieties of colonisation and decolonisation approach provides a comprehensive and flexible alternative framework to analyse issues related to colonisation and decolonisation.Social implicationsA balanced view of the implications of colonisation and decolonisation with respect to economic, political, social and cultural dimensions may suitably be incorporated in the field of IB and contribute to tackling grand societal challenges. This applies likewise to past, current and future processes of colonisation and decolonisation.Originality/valueThis paper contextualises and adds a new perspective and variety to the current debate on decolonising IB. This is valuable for engaging in discussions on decolonisation and future conceptual and empirical research on the topic.