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19 janv. 2017 · From the broad differences between East and West, to subtle variation between US states, it is becoming increasingly clear that history, geography and culture can change how we all think in...
- 1 Culture and Value Systems
- 2 Attention and Perception: Holistic Versus Analytic
- 3 Problem Solving: Relation Versus Categorization
- 4 Rhetorical Structures: Linear vs. Roundabout
One’s identity is largely a function of one’s role and membership in a group or within a culture. Culture refers to shared values among a group of people. Depending on the value system a group of people shares, cultural orientation is broken down into collectivism and individualism. A collectivistic society is characterized on group cohesion, inter...
Differences in attentional and perceptual patterns between Easterners and Westerners have been investigated in social psychology. Predominant findings converge on robust differences in cultural members’ attention to the foreground and the background of the scene for Westerners and Easterners, respectively. Easterners tend to attend to context-depen...
Reasoning and problem solving styles are found to be different across cultures as well. Research shows that East Asians prefer identifying relationships in information processing, while Westerners prefer categorizing objects (Nisbett & Miyamoto, 2005; Chua, Boland, & Nisbett, 2005; Ji, Zhang & Nisbett, 2004). The tendency of East Asians to focus on...
Kaplan (1983) observes that “speakers of different languages use different devices to present information, to establish the relationships among ideas, to show centrality of one idea as opposed to another, to select the most effective means of representation” (pp. 140–141). This observation is summarized in the notion of contrastive rhetoric (a.k.a....
- Hye K. Pae
- 2020
In sociology, the East–West dichotomy is the perceived difference between the Eastern and the Western worlds. Cultural and religious rather than geographical in division, the boundaries of East and West are not fixed, but vary according to the criteria adopted by individuals using the term.
15 oct. 2020 · PDF | This chapter reviews the cultural aspects of the East and the West. A wide range of differences between the East and the West is discussed in... | Find, read and cite all...
8 févr. 2018 · Why the East and the West don't think the same way. 8 February 2018. People from different parts of the world have distinct psychological features. It is becoming clear that history,...
The split between the eastern and western regions of the United States is mirrored in Gatsby by the divide between East Egg and West Egg: once again the West is the frontier of people making their fortunes, but these "Westerners" are as hollow and corrupt inside as the "Easterners." East and West Quotes in The Great Gatsby.
II have recently been considering this problem in a book that has recently appeared in English, under the title The East in the West (Cambridge, 1996). Its aim is simple. In Europe in sociological, politi cal, historical and much anthropological theory, and in most everyday thought, the West is taken as the model for the process of social devel ...
