Looking at Vietnam’s cultural environment through the psychosphere for development of the majority of population, through the positive and sympathetic estimation of foreign experts, through data on the degree of optimism, or through Vietnam’s happiness index measured and made public to the world, we must admit that, for the most part, the cultural environment in Vietnam nowadays is fine, fair, and healthy, and not the contrary.

THE CULTURAL TURN IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES POSITIONS ON CULTUROLOGICAL OBSERVATION OF COMMUNICATION (Keynote Speech at the Symposium “The Relevance of Cultural Studies” at Athens University, June 26, 03) Thomas A. Bauer In social sciences and humanities of the late last century has been developed a tendency of analyzing social practice (communication, organization and systems of it) by a cultural view of consideration. This “cultural turn” was somehow provoked by the end of capacity of explication of structural scientific models and by the need of new, open and changeable conceptions facing an ever changing and complex social universe. The cultural turn…

    THE CULTURAL ASPECT OF TECHNOLOGY Fatemeh farahani Today in many developing countries insufficient progress in science and technology is considered to be the chief reason for general backwardness; on the contrary, many in the industrially advanced societies hold unfettered technological progress as the roots of all social ills.

    E. B. TYLOR AND THE PROBLEM OF PRIMITIVE CULTURE Laavanyan Ratnapalan Abstract Edward Burnett Tylor's (1832-1917) theory of survivals, or elements of the “primitive” or archaic past that continued to play an active part in the beliefs of the present day, hallmarks the Victorian effort to isolate and display what were thought to be the most developed features of the contemporary world. However, in focusing on what was outmoded in society, the theory of survivals brought primitive beliefs into an uncomfortable relationship with the beliefs of the present, threatening to disrupt the harmony of this conception. The resulting…

    WHAT PRAGMATISM MEANS   William James (1906) I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is ‘true’ so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives. That it is good, for as much as it profits, you will gladly admit. If what we do by its aid is good, you will allow the idea itself to be good in so far forth, for we are the better for possessing it. But is it not a strange misuse of the word ‘truth,’ you will say,…

    RUSSIAN CULTURLOGY: CONTINUING WHERE MARXISM LEFT OFF Marlene Laruelle It is difficult to talk about the role of the “Russian idea” today in general terms.  In the academic realm, many of the textbooks of culturology (not all, but a majority) are a kind of institutionalization of the debates about ‘the Russian idea.’ Culturology presents itself both as teaching this thought and as continuing it after what is seen as the Soviet hiatus.

    FOREWORD TO HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY* Carl O. Sauer   APOLOGIA These remarks are directed to the nature of historical geography and to some of its problems. By preference I should present data and conclusions from my own work in Mexico. On second thought, however, I am moved to do what has been done so often in the annual address before this body, to set forth in some manner a confession of the faith that has stood behind one's work.  It is obvious that we who call ourselves geographers do not at present understand each other very well. We have…

CULTURAL STUDIES IN VNU-HCMC: THEORETICAL BASIS AND APPROACH   Prof. Dr. Tran Ngoc Them (Vietnam National University - HCMC)   In: 2007 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Shanghai Conference "Conditions of Knowledge and Cultural Production", Shanghai, 15-27 June 2007

CULTURAL IDENTITY AND ASIAN MODERNIZATION Robert M. BELLAH The problem posed by this symposium to commemorate the Centennial of Kokugakuin University is a central one for Japan, Asia and, indeed, for the whole world. How to reconcile cultural identity and modernization is a question that every nation and every people has to face today.

TOWARDS A PLURALISTIC CULTURE: Essays on Cultures in the Postmodern Age by Tran Van Doan   GS.TS. Trần Văn Đoàn giảng về Pluralistic Culture cho HVCH VHH k7 ĐHKHXH-NV ngày 25-1-2008 Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series IIID, Southeast Asia, Volume 8 General Editor: George F. McLean   The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy Copyright  ©   2006 by Box 261, Cardinal Station, Washington, D.C. 20064 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication