Role Of Culture In Development Research Articles

A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures.

Culture is a key determinant of children's development both in its own right and as a measure of generalizability of developmental phenomena. Studying the role of culture in development requires information about participants' demographic backgrounds. However, both reporting and treatment of demographic data are limited and inconsistent in child development research. A barrier to reporting demographic data in a consistent fashion is that no standardized tool currently exists to collect these data. Variation in cultural expectations, family structures, and life circumstances across communities make the creation of a unifying instrument challenging. Here, we present a framework to standardize demographic reporting for early child development (birth to 3 years of age), focusing on six core sociodemographic construct categories: biological information, gestational status, health status, community of descent, caregiving environment, and socioeconomic status. For each category, we discuss potential constructs and measurement items and provide guidance for their use and adaptation to diverse contexts. These items are stored in an open repository of context-adapted questionnaires that provide a consistent approach to obtaining and reporting demographic information so that these data can be archived and shared in a more standardized format. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

PERSPECTIVES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGMENT AND PROGRESS IN RA

The cultural policy of the Republic of Armenia, among other issues, is directed at the preservation of historical and cultural heritage. However, the costs for the implementation of this problem in our country are only 0.03% of the total costs. Meanwhile, statistical data shows that the number of visitors to Armenia for cultural tourism is increasing annually: reaching more than half of the visitors. For the preservation, management, and development of cultural heritage, it is necessary to implement modern strategic plans, which will contribute to conserving the historical and cultural heritage and developing cultural tourism potential. Stable cultural development is an imperative and mandatory requirement of the current time. It is a new way of thinking that implies the harmony of economic, social, cultural, ecological, and political spheres. It is indisputable that culture is an essential resource in this harmony. Culture nowadays is perceived as a set of spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional characteristics specific to each society, social group, and individual. In recent years, the role of culture in development has become increasingly important in Armenia. The challenge is recognizing all the advantages of culture and consistently including culture as a crucial and stable component in national development programs and policies.

The role of culture in development

The role of culture in development

Exploring the role of culture in trust development with service providers

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore how customers from different cultures develop trust with service providers to uncover underlying dimensions of trust development for customers from different cultures.Design/methodology/approachThis study utilizes semi‐structured phenomenological depth interviews to explore the role of culture in the development of trust with service providers.FindingsCustomers' direct service experiences in their native culture and in the culture where they reside (in this study the USA), as well as recommendations from others appear to be the major determinants of trust. Furthermore, a customer's trust in a recommender seems to transfer over to a service provider.Research limitations/implicationsBecause all informants were from one foreign culture (Korean), the findings related to primarily this group. Further generalization of these findings should only be made after studies conducted with informants from other foreign cultures.Practical implicationsService organizations need to offer their employees training that emphasizes strategies oriented toward building and maintaining trust with customers from different cultural backgrounds in order to better read customers from different cultural backgrounds and to effectively react to their complaints.Originality/valueThe most unique part of trust development for Koreans who have lived in the USA would be the transference process. They seem to trust service providers or service organizations based on the recommendations related to specific service categories. Once trust is established in recommenders, it seems to naturally result in a transference process (e.g. trust transference from service provider to service organization).

Exploring cultural capital and its importance in sustainable development

This paper explores the concept of cultural capital and suggests a framework for assessing its influence in the management and use of natural capital. Cultural capital has been described as the underlying factors that provide human societies with the means and adaptations to maintain themselves in their environment. Sustainable development calls for a shift in the way in which natural capital is managed and used and much effort has gone into discussing and analysing the sustainable development process and mechanisms by which natural capital levels can be maintained. Cultural capital is an important, but much neglected, element in this process. There have been attempts to analyse the role of culture in development, but these have been few and isolated. This paper identifies three key areas in which cultural capital has influence: ‘management objectives’, ‘efficiency of process’ and ‘demand’. These three areas form the basis of an analysis framework, designed to assess the presence of various cultural traits with regard to the main functions of natural capital—the provision of: raw materials, sinks, environmental services and amenity services.

Theories of Developmental Psychology for a Cultural Perspective: A Viewpoint from Africa

This paper examines the emergence of scientific psychology as a Euro-American product, which was later imported into Africa. It is argued that the current theorising in and the orientation of developmental psychology are essentially "Euro-centric" in nature and hence have limited applicability in the context of Africa. The role of culture in development is emphasised. An Afro-centric concept of child is examined and an attempt is made to demonstrate how the representation of the life course in Africa reflects African social systems and cultural realities. The author presents a new paradigm—an eco-cultural model as a conceptual framework—that takes culture and local views of human nature and development. Issues are raised pertaining to research in African cultures within the eco-cultural framework.

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia.

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia.

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia. Edited by Michael R. Dove. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. xiv, 289 pp. $32.00.

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The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia. Edited by Michael R. Dove. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 289. Figures, Photographs, Tables, Index.

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia. Edited by Michael R. Dove. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 289. Figures, Photographs, Tables, Index. - Volume 20 Issue 2

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia.

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia.

Culture, structure and development: An alternative perspective∗

This article sets out to explore the role of culture in development, and in particular the ways in which the relationship between culture and structure may influence possibilities of development By means of an analysis of theoretical problems inherent in the culture of poverty thesis, it attempts to identify some of the preconditions for a successful theory of culture and development. In particular attention is focused on the power relationships and inequalities between cultures within the context of the contemporary national state. A theoretical framework which utilises Ernest Gellner's theory of culture and nationalism in industrial societies is proposed, and some of the implications for development research and practice are considered.

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia.

The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia.

The Sociology of Development and Issues Surrounding Late Development

In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of new themes began to appear in the work of sociologists of development. Old paradigms came under fire and new ones were offered as more accurate conceptualizations of development. These new frameworks, exemplified in the dependency approach, suggested new ways of looking at the relationship between the developed and developing states, as well as at new problems facing the late developing states. But in spite of these new perceptions, many basic theoretical questions, like the role of culture in development, remain unclarified. An elaboration of these questions is offered here with an eye toward a theoretical reconceptualization of their place in the sociology of development.