27. August 2023
The term „clash of civilizations“ originates from an article by the U.S. political scientist and sociologist Samuel P. Huntington. In 1993, the article with the questioning […]
26. August 2023
Walter Lippmann’s 1922 book Public Opinion was the first to use the term stereotype to represent social structures of society (see Gardner 1994, 1-5). He characterized […]
4. Juli 2023
„As a form of social, action-oriented, and emotional learning, it provides insights into different ways of learning, and specifically, in the form of cultural comparisons, it […]
4. Juli 2023
A child comes into the world without cultural understanding – i.e. ‚culture‘ is something that must first be learned. Through social contacts, social occurrences, institutions and […]
4. Juli 2023
The term integration (Latin integratio) means „restoration of a whole“ (Hillmann 2007, 383). In sociology, it refers to a „behavioral and conscious integration into or alignment […]
3. Juli 2023
There are different definitions or areas of inclusion. With reference to the Latin word origin, inclusion comes from includo „to enclose, to confine“ (cf. Pons). Inclusion […]
3. Juli 2023
Individualism fundamentally focuses on the interests, rights as well as needs of the individual vis-à-vis the social environment, so that the freedom of the individual is […]
2. Juli 2023
Indigenous knowledge, often referred to as traditional knowledge in the literature, defines „knowledge about medicinal or other useful properties of biological diversity that has often existed […]
2. Juli 2023
In order to highlight cultural as well as natural characteristics, the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention) was […]