Suggests that the rise of democracy was the most important development of the 20th century, examining the question of democracy as a universal value by focusing on: India's experience with democracy; democracy and economic development; the functions of democracy; universality of values; and cultural differences in values. Concludes with a…

Discusses tacit learning, the bringing together of mind and body by practice, and how to incorporate it into training. Includes descriptions of exercises that reveal tacit knowledge. (JOW)

Explores how couples cope with marital conflict from the early years of their relationships to the present time. Focuses on conflict management styles from face-to-face confrontation to avoidance, as well as gender and ethnicity influences on styles of coping with conflict. Implications for social work practice are discussed. (Author/MKA)

Compares cultural influences on caregiver burdens of Korean adult children and American adult children caring for parents with dementia. Identifies culturally specific values, norms, and customs associated with low or high burden. Findings show low burden for Korean caregivers and high burden for American caregivers. (MKA)

Discusses organizations shifting from affirming diversity to affirming similarity in workforce training. The DiverSimilarity principles include creativity and adversity in diversity, conformity and compatibility in similarity, diversity within diversity, similarity across diversity, and managing diversity by managing diverSimilarity. (MMU)

Suggests that Britain's cultural legacy is why democracy has succeeded in countries modeling its culture, examining how that legacy will exist in the globalized world. Discusses Britain's abundant social capital (individualism), noting that certain characteristics of British culture may be its undoing. Recommends coping with diversity by using the…

Recognizing that knowledge about other cultures and their responses to deafness is limited in the United States, focuses on rituals that are not widely known to North Americans. Offers descriptions of Mexican rituals to advance an understanding of the way the meaning of deafness is interpreted in different cultures. (Author/VWL)

Discusses how a variety of companies are dealing with the demographic realities of a changing labor force. Suggests that at the core of managing a more diverse workforce is making all people feel comfortable and connected with the company. (JOW)

Argues that Baumrind's (1998) postculturalist stance reflects the direction of developmental psychology research, but her efforts to construct a complementary ethical theory fall short. Argues that her position suffers from internal contradictions and that her project can be salvaged by accommodation with elements of communicative discourse theory…

Provides a framework of key issues surrounding the non-standard orthographic representation of non-standard language varieties. The following topics are addressed: the selective nature of orthographic choice; relational an contrastive meaning of orthographic conventions; interplay of sameness and difference in use of orthography to make claims on…

Explores the impact of Chinese culture on the school curriculum in Hong Kong. Argues that the Target-Oriented Curriculum (TOC) transplanted from western-based concepts is not commensurate with the local Chinese cultural context, and therefore leads to many problems when being implemented in schools. (Author/VWL)

Examines difference and similarities among definitions of leadership in different cultures and how the cultures shape the definitions of leadership in their own cultural environments. Focuses on the concept of leadership in Australia, China, Russia, and the United States. (Contains 50 references.) (Author/LRW)

The validity of Holland's personality types model was tested with 932 young black men and women from Northwestern Province and 386 form Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. A randomization test of hypothesized order relations and multidimensional scaling analyses showed that data from all groups fit the circular order model poorly. (Contains 48…

Discusses an attempt to work both narratively and critically, recognizing that the narratives of experience first constructed (spoken and written) represent a necessary convergence of history, tradition, politics, and interpretation, which represents sites of contest and conflict. Discusses the willingness to allow expression of cultural attitudes…

Reports on increasing efforts by colleges and universities to meet the spiritual needs of minority students by providing religious centers where students of all faiths can worship under one roof. Examples include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts), and Johns Hopkins University (Maryland). (DB)