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Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory. Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural psychology, developed by Geert Hofstede. It shows the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behavior, using a structure derived from factor analysis. [1]
Hofstede was a researcher in the fields of organizational studies and more concretely organizational culture, also cultural economics and management. [5] He was a well-known pioneer in his research of cross-cultural groups and organizations and played a major role in developing a systematic framework for assessing and differentiating national cultures and organizational cultures.
Cultural competence is a practice of values and attitudes that aims to optimize the healthcare experience of patients with cross cultural backgrounds. [6] Essential elements that enable organizations to become culturally competent include valuing diversity, having the capacity for cultural self-assessment, being conscious of the dynamics inherent when cultures interact, having ...
Activity: Similarly to findings in temperament research, children with high activity tend to have high energy levels and more intense and frequent motor activity compared to their peers. [ 102 ] [ 120 ] [ 135 ] Salient differences in activity reliably manifest in infancy, persist through adolescence, and fade as motor activity decreases in ...
Medical anthropology studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation". [1] It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives. [2] It is one of the most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, [3] and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ...
Edward T. Hall. Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He is remembered for developing the concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal space.
Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) [1] is a theoretical framework [2] which helps to understand and analyse the relationship between the human mind (what people think and feel) and activity (what people do). [3][4][5] It traces its origins to the founders [6] of the cultural-historical school of Russian psychology L. S. Vygotsky [7] and ...
Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, medicine, and technologies.