Essays about: "Cultural transmission"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 essays containing the words Cultural transmission.
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1. Learning the Lesson – A Comparative Analysis of Swedish and Chinese Strategies in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Impact on International Student Flow
University essay from Malmö universitet/Centrum för akademiskt lärarskap (CAKL)Abstract : The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020 has brought many teaching and learning challenges into higher education, such as innovative learning technology issues, the quality of sudden remote studying, a significant drop in international student mobility, and the overall flow of international students, that made the learning environment uncertain. The pandemic outbreak has also brought an understanding that it is a collectively shared challenge. READ MORE
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2. Coins, glass shards and other means of payment - A comparative study of Scandinavian Charon object burials using R. Dawkins’ meme theory
University essay from Lunds universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : The purpose of this thesis’ topic is to investigate the evolutionary dispersal of the Charon’s fee or Obolus rite outside the Roman provinces in Northern Europe, with a specific focus on Roman Iron Age and Migration Period Scandinavia. The aim of this study is therefore to add further understanding to the spread of Roman cultural influences outside the imperial borders and what made Roman material and ideological culture so attractive to the Germanic and Scandinavian Iron Age peoples. READ MORE
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3. World Heritage in the Making : An ethnography of the cultural heritage conservation practices in İzmir, Türkiye
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This thesis is an ethnographic research of the cultural heritage conservation practices in İzmir, focusing particularly on the heritage site Historical Port City of İzmir’s conservation on individual, local, and global levels from an anthropological point of view. With its ongoing inscription process to UNESCO’s World Heritage List, the study aims, first, to understand the motivation behind this inscription, the current conservation practices in the city that are undergone by individual and local actors, and to analyze the impact and connection between the individual, local and global efforts to protect İzmir’s multicultural and multilayered heritage. READ MORE
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4. Modelling trend cycles of a stock in the market through social transmission
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Utbildningsvetenskap och MatematikAbstract : This project investigates the relationship between social interactions among marketparticipants and the emergence of cyclical trends in stock markets. Two models aredeveloped to capture the interaction dynamics among individuals within the market:a basic model and a model with a price mechanism. READ MORE
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5. The Effect of Culture on the Age at First Birth
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : In this thesis, we investigate the potential effect of culture on the age at first birth. During the past decade, the age at first birth in Europe has steadily increased to an unprecedented level. Being one of the main factors behind decreasing fertility rates, this is of interest for the dangers following an aging population. READ MORE
