Face Threat and Facework Strategies When Family (Health) Secrets Are Revealed: A Comparison of South Korea and the United States

This study examined face threat and facework strategies when people witness family members disclosing sensitive health information to family outsiders. Korean and U.S. participants were expected to view these situations differently based on Confucian versus individualist identity and in‐group privacy norms. Korean and U.S. college samples evaluated vignettes in which health information was disclosed to family outsiders. Koreans regarded the situations as more face threatening and endorsed dominating facework in these situations to a greater extent than did Americans. The 2 cultures also showed strong similarities. Results confirmed the cultural basis of privacy expectations but contradicted some accounts of culturally based facework. Koreans did not consistently endorse indirect facework, nor did Americans show notable directness in response to privacy violations.     

一首悠然深远的田园诗——记苏州仁恒独墅湖别墅

文章以张旭的诗句引出苏州仁恒独墅湖别墅之设计理念,通过设计理念的阐释,探索艺术与生活的相关意境。设计师利用自然而然的空间层次和景致,将传统院落与现代空间自由结合,在强调现代美学的审美观念同时,将东方文化演绎到极至。     

文化适应策略下的美好乡村构建

基于当前农村城市化和城镇化的社会背景,从文化适应的角度,分析文化适应的四种策略,探讨乡村文化与城市文化适应的模式,提出美好乡村建设中乡村文化现代化发展要走农民城市化、农村的现代化、乡村文化的激活与强化和可持续发展的文化整合策略。     

城市人性空间解析

在当前的城市规划中注重物质空间的规划设计,但能同时关照到人的身体与心灵的设计才是人性化设计追求的目标。城市需要人性空间,人性空间是对日常生活与人的关怀与尊重,对宜人小尺度的推敲,以及对历史文脉的探求。其核心在于空间场所的塑造和历史文化的滋养,由物质空间与自然人文等多重维度共同构成。     

转型期城市历史文化要素空间整合与展示——以无锡为例

本文论述了转型期城市历史文化保护的困境,以历史城市无锡为例,在对历史文化要素现状评价的基础上,提出了对其进行空间整合、系统展示的保护策略,希望为我国城市的历史保护提供参考     

建筑展览：当代建筑文化的推进器

本文综述现当代建筑展览的发展历程,分析展览对推动建筑文化发展的巨大作用,并指出当代中国建筑展览的现状与问题。     

The culture gap and its needed closures

The development of an enormous culture gap, in which no individuals of advanced societies possess even a billionth of the non‐genetic information possessed by their entire society, has threatened a global collapse of civilisation. Critical parts of that gap must be rapidly bridged so that problems such as climate disruption, toxification of the Earth, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the decay of the epidemiological environment can be satisfactorily attacked. The essential need is to alter human behaviour to put society on a route to sustainability; one cheering development is a growing interest in the Millennium Assessment of Human Behaviour (MAHB), whose goal is to do just that.     

Behaviour of quantity surveyors as organizational citizens

Understanding the individual's collectivistic orientations toward group goals and task activities is critical for developing cooperative and productive teams. The complex environment of modern construction, where the emphasis shifts from individually oriented to team‐based work, has led to many challenges. There are important issues of cooperative behaviours in a world of cultural pluralism in which interpersonal cooperation is juxtaposed with organizational citizenship behaviour. Behaviours of construction project participants are important manifestations of culture that are dependent upon norms, values and beliefs. Certain organizational cultures support individualistic behaviours while others emphasize the benefits to the collective whole. Collectivistic orientation is examined as the cultural dimension of individualism‐collectivism (IC) and found to be related to organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) where the correlations of IC and most OCB variables are significant for quantity surveyors in Hong Kong. Generally, the (more) individualistic persons are less likely to exhibit organizational citizenship behaviours.     

Matrix organizational structure,culture and commitment: a Hong Kong public sector case study of change

This paper reports on the impact of organizational change on a government department in Hong Kong. It focuses on the perceptions of professional personnel of the organizational culture developed in the depart4 ment and its mismatch with their expectations. The commitment of the professionals to their organization was measured, and found to be limited solely to a level of continuance commitment. The results of the study are discussed and explained in part by reference to Hofstede's cultural concepts of power distance and individualism, and by reference to traditional Chinese cultural values.