Culture Motivation Research Articles

Effectiveness of ethnomathematics-based visual thinking approach in increasing mathematics literacy and cultural motivation

This study is aimed to increase the students’ mathematics literacy and cultural motivation. The research design was a mix-method with an experiment with a nonequivalent control group design and ethnography. The research population was the junior high school students in the Siak City of Riau Province. The research sample was the students that were taken by using purposive sampling according to the research objective. The collection data techniques were interview, observation, and test. The interview with interview guidelines instrument to get information about the integration of culture with mathematics. The observation by a checklist to know the increasing motivation to learn and understand the Siak Culture. Test with an essay instrument to know the increasing the students' mathematics literacy after following the teaching process with the visual thinking method. The analysis data techniques were descriptive quantitative and t-test to know whether there was a difference between the control class and experiment class. The qualitative results show there were seven motifs of Tenun Siak that claimed in mathematics is Frieze F1 Pattern to F7 Pattern. The results show that there was a significant difference between the control class and the experiment class. The experiment class was better than the control class so it can be concluded that visual thinking can increase the students’ mathematics literacy. The motivation of students to learn and understand the Siak Culture from the first and sixth meetings also increases.

Polskie i bułgarskie frazeologizmy z komponentem nominalnym ‘ucho – uszy’ / ‘ухо – уши’

The paper analyzes Polish and Bulgarian phrasemes with the nominal component ‘ucho – uszy’ / ‘ухо – уши’ [‘ear – ears’]. Based on motivation, they form three internally different groups. The first group includes phrasemes whose meaning reveals functional, anatomical and spatial slogans inherent in the semantic structure of the lexeme ‘ear’ naming a part of the body. The second group consists of phraseological compounds with cultural motivation, and the third group includes units with the lexeme ‘ear’ used in figurative meanings. Most of the symbolic meanings attributed to the ear have been fixed in both Polish and Bulgarian phraseological compounds. The compounds that differ in meaning in the two languages are few; more common is the expansion of meaning in one of the languages. In both Polish and Bulgarian data, there are units that have no equivalent in the other language.

Cultural festival attendees: a path from motivation to loyalty

ABSTRACT Scholars have long undervalued the role of knowledge in the formation of festival loyalty. The purpose of this study is to define a knowledge-based model of attendee loyalty at a cultural festival. It evaluates the influence of cultural motivation – descending from knowledge needs – and acquired knowledge in the formation of festival loyalty and assesses the role of festival attachment and satisfaction in explaining the nexus between acquired knowledge and loyalty. A questionnaire survey was administered to 456 attendees at the ‘Sponz Fest’, a festival organized annually in South Italy. Data were analysed by applying a covariance-based structural equation model in two stages. The results highlight that loyalty depends on knowledge acquisition, which, in turn, is influenced by cultural motivation. Satisfaction and festival attachment act as mediators in the relationship between acquired knowledge and loyalty. These findings offer a new perspective on the explanation of the formation of loyalty to cultural festivals in light of knowledge-based constructs. Moreover, it allows to understand how specific constructs of affective and cognitive nature intervene in explaining why acquired knowledge leads attendants to be more loyal to this type of festival. The managerial implications of these findings are provided for festival organizers.

Motivasi Wisatawan Berkunjung ke Agrowisata Batu Patah Payo kota Solok

This research was initially motivated by a problem where motivation is what makes tourists carry out tourism activities to see how the motivation of tourists to visit Payo agro-tourism in Solok City, with quantitative descriptive research and survey methods. The tourists who are the samples in this study are people who have visited and are currently visiting Payo Agrotourism, Solok City and the technique of determining the sample is accidental sampling. Data collection techniques by distributing questionnaires with 13 statements related to tourist motivation. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the motivation value of tourists visiting Payo Agrotourism in Solok City was found in the very good category with a percentage of 71%, which means that the motivation of tourists visiting Payo Agrotourism in Solok was in the very good category. The indicators of physical motivation are categorized as very good and the percentage is 50%. indicators of interpersonal motivation are in the very good category with a percentage of 72%. indicators of motivation status and dignity are categorized as very good at the percentage of 94%%. indicators of cultural motivation are classified in the bad category with a percentage of 47%.

THE BAYESIAN SEM APPROACH ON RELIGIOUS TOURISM AND SME'S ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITY INTERRELATION IN RURAL AREA

Economics, social and culture are interrelated fields in developing a country. The social and cultural conditions that grow in an area affect how the economy develops in that area and its surrounding. This study analyzed a causal relationship from 60 nascent entrepreneurs at rural area of religious tourism with Bayesian SEM to handle a small amount of data. Based on the results of the analysis, it was found that entrepreneurial motivation and cultural motivation had a significant effect on rural religious tourism. The latent variable of rural religious tourism and entrepreneurial motivation have a significant effect on SME's entrepreneurial opportunity. The entrepreneurial motivation variable has a correlation with the cultural motivation variable.This characteristics has established the Minangkabau heritage of rural area described on its strong religious tourism aspect into SME's entrepreneurial challenge of nascent entrepreneurs.

"Une deuxieme edition, revue et augmentee, d’un dictionnaire bilingue specialise, de termes chretiens-orthodoxes, et ses motivations"

The present paper provides an analysis of the main motivations behind the publication of a second edition, revised and expanded, of a bilingual dictionary of Christian-Orthodox, Romanian-French and French-Romanian terms, ten years after the publication of the first one. In the given paper, three types of motivations are studied: lexicographical, terminological and cultural. Lexicographical motivation focused on enriching lexical entries (both in Romanian and in French). The terminological motivation focused on finalizing the lexical adaptation in French of several Greek borrowings, and therefore, the diachronic fixing of the individualized Christian-Orthodox terminology in this language. The cultural motivation underpinned the highlighting of a cultural continuum of a Christian-Orthodox nature established in a semiotic manner (notably through translations) between the two cultures, Romanian and French, concerned by the specialized lexicographical approach.

Mobilized, negotiated and balanced: Chinese school vloggers’ platform engagements and layered identity construction on Bilibili

ABSTRACT Entangled with wanghong (literally: popular people on the internet) and the platform economy in China, it has become trendy for Chinese youth to present themselves as they pursue visibility and monetization as vloggers on social media platforms. In this research, we do not focus on celebrities or influencers but on the regular Chinese school vloggers who present and share their everyday lives in and around the school on Bilibili, a youth-oriented video-sharing platform in China. We explore their layered identity construction that develops, influenced by the forces of cultural motivation and financial goals. Drawing from a digital ethnography, conducted between September 2019 and March 2020, and including observations of school vlogs on Bilibili and in-depth interviews with 16 Chinese school vloggers, we theorize three kinds of engagements actively practiced on Bilibili by young school vloggers. These engagements are self-presentation bricolage, self-identified branding, and community participation. By exploring the layered identity construction of these youths, this article sheds light on youth’s interaction and engagements with the platform economy in contemporary China.

The Millet of the Matter: Archeobotanical Evidence for Farming Strategies of Western Han Dynasty Core Area Inhabitants.

Despite decades of investigation, consensus has yet to be reached on when and where wheat replaced millet as the primary crop in the core regions of early Imperial China. Previous studies have suggested that wheat cultivation likely became widespread prior to or during the Han Dynasty (202 BC–AD 220). Here, we tested this hypothesis by applying archeobotanical tools to plant remains found in five pottery model granaries (cang) entombed in a newly excavated late Western Han burial at the Longzaocun cemetery in the Guanzhong Basin. This analysis allowed us to explore the extent of wheat expansion and agricultural strategies in the heartland of early dynastic China. Macro- and micro-botanical evidence shows that the Longzaocun residents consumed two kinds of crops: foxtail and common millet. Combining these findings with previous studies, we argue that millet-based multi-crop farming dominated the regional agricultural system during the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 8) and analyze the political and cultural motivations for the Han people’s usage on millet crops from the burial concepts and fiscal systems. Echoing previous studies, we argue that millets remained the most valuable subsistence food for inhabitants of the Loess Basins in the Han core, and that wheat was not cultivated on a large scale in this area during the Western Han Dynasty.

Social Media User in Receiving and Sharing Hoax Information: Overview from Motivation Level

Social media is a very vulnerable medium for the spread of hoax information. Based on various research survey references, social media currently remains the main source of circulating hoaxes. Ironically, many hoax information that is spread can cause unrest, conflict, slander, overthrow each other, and excessive fear. On the other hand, the characteristics of social media make it easier for users to share information on their social networks. With a description of the problem conditions regarding the spread of hoax information that is very complex, it is necessary to increase social media users' awareness and information literacy. However, the strategy to increase the awareness of social media users is not easy to formulate. In advance, it is necessary to know the biggest motives of social media users in receiving and redistributing hoax information. Based on research using a quantitative approach through a cross-sectional survey strategy, it has been found that the motives that most often underlie social media users in receiving hoax information are dominated by the information exposure process motive and the viral information motive. In addition, someone's motive for sharing hoax information is the motive for low information literacy and cultural motives for sharing information.

Correlation between Situational Leadership and Teacher Performance through Work Culture and Teacher Work Motivation at SDN Martapura Barat, Banjar Regency

Teacher performance, leadership, work culture, and motivation are all important components in providing a high-quality education. Through the teacher's work culture and motivation, this study tries to describe the link between the principal's situational leadership and teacher performance. This study is based on a correlational quantitative technique. The total number of teachers was 124, with a sample size of 95. The slovin formula is used to carry out the proportionate random sampling approach. SPSS 20 is used to perform descriptive and inferential statistics in this investigation. Questionnaires are used to collect data. Path analysis is used in this data analysis. The results showed that there is situational leadership (30 items) and work motivation (30 items) are in the high category, while work culture (34 items) and teacher performance (14 items) are in the very high category, which have been tested for validity and reliability, there is a direct correlation of situational leadership, work culture, work motivation to teacher performance, there is an indirect correlation of situational leadership and work culture through work motivation to teacher performance.

Correlation among School Principal Leadership, Work Culture and Work Motivation toward Job Satisfaction of Junior High School Teachers in Balangan Regency

This study aims to determine and analyze the direct and indirect correlation between the principal leadership and work culture through work motivation on job satisfaction. This research is a descriptive correlation al research with path analysis. The research sample was 167 people. The data was collected using instruments consisting of principals' leadership (26 items), work culture (15 items), work motivation (23 items), job satisfaction (22 items) that have been tested for validity and reliability. The data analysis of this research used path analysis. The results showed that there was a correlation between the principal leadership and work culture through work motivation on job satisfaction, either directly or indirectly.

How Culture Shapes Informal Caregiver Motivations: A Meta-Ethnographic Review.

The provision of informal care presents a significant global challenge. To better understand how cultural factors underpin and shape motivations and willingness to provide informal care for adults, an in-depth qualitative synthesis was conducted. Six electronic databases and a wide range of additional sources were searched. Following meta-ethnographic guidelines, 37 qualitative studies were synthesised. Six main concepts were identified: cultural self-identity, which appeared as an overarching explanatory concept; cultural duty and obligations; cultural values; love and emotional attachments; repayment and reciprocity; and competing demands and roles. These concepts informed a model of cultural caregiving motivations, offering an inductive-based exploration of key cultural motivators and highlighting implications for theory development, future research, policy and practice. The model holds implications for the actual exchange of care. Caregiver motivations should not be taken for granted by healthcare or social care professionals involved in assessment and support planning, educational endeavours at a population level may support caregiving, and support should be sensitive to cultural caregiving motivations.

Towards a nuanced understanding of anti-immigration sentiment in the welfare state – a program specific analysis of welfare preferences

The literature on immigration and the welfare state describes a trade-off between immigration and welfare support. We argue for a more nuanced view of welfare chauvinism that accounts for different motivational channels, specific welfare programs and particular population subgroups. First, we identify two separate characteristics of hostility towards immigrants that trigger welfare chauvinism: affective anti-migration sentiment that combines economic and cultural motives; and a ‘putative rational anti-migration sentiment’ that is driven by the fear that immigration could overburden the welfare state although immigrants themselves are not disliked or even appreciated. Second, running a program-specific analysis, we find that affective and ‘putative rational’ opposition to migration lower redistributive preferences towards the unemployed. On the contrary, affective anti-immigration sentiment even increases welfare affinity towards the elderly. We interpret this finding not as preferences for or against a specific welfare program but as implicit sympathy or antipathy for its recipients. Third, investigating the role of Populist Radical Right Parties (PRRPs) as the main source of welfare chauvinism, we find that PRRP supporters strongly prefer more redistribution towards a perceived native in-group: the elderly.

'Nothing new under the sun': Rethinking recycling in the past- Editorial.

Editorial for the Special Issue of Archaeometry ‘Tackling Recycling in the Past’. The practice of recycling has undoubtedly become one of the most important strategies to build a long‐term sustainable society in the modern world. However, both the perception and practice of recycling can be traced back to prehistory through various archaeological records. Objects made of stone, jade, mortar, textiles, pottery and bones display evidence of physical reshaping and repair, as do objects of metal and glass. Metal and glass, moreover, are materials which can be melted and recast, freeing ancient people from the limitations of the physical form of the original object. Illustrating and understanding patterns of recycling and the underlying social organization can significantly advance our knowledge of ancient people, their economic, political and cultural motivations for recycling, as well as the broad interaction between the social and material world. Though the issue of recycling is not novel in the discussions and debates of the archaeological circle, new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and archaeometric data encourage us to revisit the topic in this special issue. In this editorial, we consider what recycling means in the past, and why these papers are vital.

Boisterous Utopia: Soviet Sonic Culture and Dziga Vertov's Enthusiasm

This article introduces the concept of Soviet “sonic culture” to better explain the critical reception of Dziga Vertov's 1930 documentary, Enthusiasm. The domestic rejection of Enthusiasm has been well documented, but the film's unexpected success outside of the Soviet Union has challenged scholarly accounts for the film's unpopularity with Soviet audiences. To explain these gaps, I use Vertov's film to exhume larger trends that shaped the understanding of both sound and listening in the early Soviet period. These trends appear not only in my reading of the film and its reception, but in case studies that incorporate the recording of birdsongs, the history of Soviet headphones and the orchestration of Lenin's funeral, to name only a few. Through all of these examples, I show how participants in sonic culture rejected Western theories of aural perception, particularly those that ascribed agency to a listener, and asserted that sound recordings should perfectly replicate–not merely represent–sonic reality. In addition to clarifying the underlying cultural motivations that stood behind the rejection of Enthusiasm, sonic culture also offers a path forward to explore the unique, material status that sound maintained in the early Soviet Union.

Motivations as predictors of religious tourism: the Muslim pilgrimage to the city of Mecca

PurposeReligious tourism is one of the oldest and fastest-growing segments. This study analyzes religious tourism through the pilgrimage of Muslims to the holy city of Mecca and has the following objectives: (1) establish the motivational dimensions of religious tourism; (2) identify the motivational dimensions that predict the satisfaction of religious tourism and (3) determine the motivational dimensions that predict return, recommend and say positive things about religious tourism applied to the pilgrimage to a sacred city.Design/methodology/approachThe sample consisted of Muslim pilgrims who had visited Mecca. The sample was collected in Bahrain, a country located on the Persian Gulf, where most of its population is Muslim. A total of 380 valid questionnaires were obtained online. For the data analysis, factorial analysis and the multiple regression method enter were performed.FindingsThe results show that religious motivations are more important when visiting a sacred city than secular ones. Three motivational dimensions were found: religious, social and cultural and shopping. The three dimensions found have a significant relationship with satisfaction and loyalty. Likewise, it was found that the religious motivational dimension is the factor that most predicts satisfaction and loyalty in the behavior of religious visits to a sacred city.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation of the present study was the temporality in which the sample was taken because the demand may vary at another time of the year and therefore vary its results.Practical implicationsThe authors of the study recommend that holy cities increase the religious motivations of these travelers by periodically researching their needs and organizing services to suit their desired spiritual experience. Also, to improve the social and cultural part, travel agencies and tourist companies to Mecca should promote social and cultural motivation among travelers in an appropriate way by providing service packages that involve visits to cultural and social sites such as museums and cultural centers.Social implicationsThis research will serve as a management guide for public institutions and private companies to develop more efficient planning in religious destinations and sacred cities.Originality/valueThis study is the first to analyze the construct of motivations in the pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, to then establish what the main motivations are that predict satisfaction and loyalty in a religious city. Thus, its results provide important information for tourist destination managers and tourism service providers.

The Causes of Colonial Expansions: A case study of the British Colonialism

Colonialism is a practice of control, which contains the defeat of one person to another. One of the main complications in defining colonialism is that it is difficult to separate it from colonialism. Nowadays these two concepts are described as synonyms. Colonialism also includes political and economic control over a dependent land. Over the past two centuries, many scholars have discussed colonial expansion. Some historians have presented some theories about colonial causes which are still the most popular theories, The purpose of this research is to examine the most significant reasons for colonialisms which are mentioned by historians and contemporary researchers. This research consists of an Introduction, four sections and a conclusion. In the first section economic factor of colonialism has been discussed. For instance, economic terms; will focus on some theories which are mostly written by Marxist theorists. These theories discuss having much funding in great countries and seeking investment and looking for raw material as well. While the second section has studied the political and national factors of colonial expansions. This means political and national causes have been discussed with particularly concentrating on the British Empire. The third section cultural role has been debated by providing some examples. This section. Investigated of cultural motivation of colonialism. Cultural terms have examined religious aims which were driven by missionaries to spread Christianity. As well as, westernization goals other points will be discussed about Europeans who attempted to impose their lifestyle on colonial people. Finally, in the last section, racial causes which focus on Social Darwinism and impacts on racial motivation is another major factor that encouraged European people to consider that, their race and nation was over of other races in the world. The method of this research has depended on description and interpretation method.

Investigating Pull-Entrepreneurship: The Effects of Exogenous Factors on Opportunity Perceptions in OECD Countries

Prior research on pull entrepreneurship sees opportunity perception as dependent on the individual’s cognitive processes and pays relatively less attention to the role of exogenous factors, which influence and shape our belief structures in the first place. To fill this gap, the main aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between exogenous factors, both positive and negative, and individuals’ opportunity perception. A theoretical framework, based on Institutional Theory, is proposed and empirically tested through panel analysis. The data cover 36 OECD countries observed between 2000 and 2014. The results show that opportunity perception is encouraged by positive exogenous factors, e.g., cultural motivation, social recognition; conversely, it is discouraged by negative exogenous factors, e.g. R&D expenditure and female unemployment. The findings also provide new insights into how exogenous factors impact individuals’ perceptions of opportunities for new business creation, highlighting that positive exogenous factors play a more important role than negative exogenous factors in this process. The empirical results confirm the proposed theoretical framework and allow the formulation of interesting theoretical and managerial implications.

Pengaruh Budaya Organisasi dan Motivasi Kerja terhadap Kinerja Karyawan dengan Employee Engagement Sebagai Variabel Mediasi (Studi Kasus Pada Lembaga Pendidikan dan Pelatihan Kepolisian Negara Republik Indonesia)

The National Police Education and Training Institute is a supporting element in the Indonesian National Police whose task is to plan, develop and carry out educational functions in the context of “Creating Tribrata Persons who are moral, professional, modern and superior”. This study aims to determine the effect of organizational culture and work motivation on employee performance with employee engagement as a mediating variable at the Indonesian National Police Education and Training Institute. The population in this study were all personnel of the National Police Education and Training Center and a sample of 202 people was obtained using the slovin formula. Data was collected using a online questionnaire. The data that has been collected is analyzed by path analysis using PLS. The results of data analysis show that: (1) Organizational culture variable has a direct and significant influence on employee performance, (2) Work motivation variable has a direct and significant influence on employee performance, (3) Organizational culture variable has a direct but not significant effect on employee engagement, (4) Variables of work motivation have a direct and significant influence on employee engagement (5) Variables of organizational culture and work motivation have an indirect influence on employee performance with employee engagement as a mediating variable at the National Police Education and Training Institute (6) Variables of employee engagement have an influence on employee performance

PENGARUH BUDAYA ORGANISASI DAN MOTIVASI KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA PEGAWAI

This research aims to analyze organizational culture factors and work motivations their influence on employee performance. The study used quantitative methods by testing hypotheses about the influence of organizational culture and work motivation on employee performance simultaneously and partially. The sample in this study was all 32 active employees using a stratification system based on groups and positions. The results proved that organizational culture and work motivation positively influence employee performance both simultaneously and partially