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Belck, Nancy – Journal of Home Economics, 1985
Discusses the work of the Cooperative Extension Service, how the extension process works, how the extension model benefits families in developing countries, parameters for an extension program abroad, nonformal extension programs, and the importance of understanding the sociocultural environment of developing nations. (CT)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Extension Agents, Extension Education, Family Programs
Quiles, Jose A. – 1989
This paper discusses the processes of cultural assimilation and identity transformation experienced by Hispanic Americans. The process of acculturation for Hispanics in the United States, which requires adaptation to a different set of cultural, societal, and racial/ethnic demands, is explored by using a paradigm model. The conceptual paradigm…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Biculturalism, Cultural Traits, Developmental Stages
Katz, Richard – 1984
For Kung hunter-gatherers and Fijian fishing people, healing is a central community ritual with significance beyond the cure itself. An enhanced state of consciousness, experienced most intensely by the healer, but also shared by the community, is at the core of Kung and Fijian healing. Although in contemporary Euro-American culture the spiritual…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Community, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Akins, Carl, Ed.; Beschner, George, Ed. – 1980
This monograph contains papers and workshop summaries from a two-day symposium for ethnographers and drug abuse policymakers. An introductory paper outlines the background and purpose of the symposium, followed by papers that provide a definition of ethnography, present a history of illicit drug ethnographies, and examine state problems and the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Drug Abuse, Ethnography, Illegal Drug Use
Ramanujam, B. K. – 1984
The cross-cultural validity of many models of personality development has been challenged because of their emphasis on Western ideals of individuation, setting goals for oneself, and aggressively pursuing those goals. The model of Hindu society presented in this paper is different. Case studies of two individuals who sought psychological help are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Caste, Conflict Resolution, Cultural Differences