Culture programs

All these considerations about the interactional structures apply to both hardware (biologically given) and software (culturally programmed) structures. For example, two systems may not interact for a lack of connection in the sense that their basic neural paths, built into the hardware of the human being, do not allow such interaction. Or, two software structures may not interact for lack of connection because in the enculturation, the programming of the person, the appropriate connections were simply not created. 

Techniques exist, however, that are intended to free a person s awareness from the dominance of the structure, of the machinery that has been culturally programmed into him. in terms of the radical view of awareness, whatever basic awareness ultimately is, there are techniques that at least produce the experience of freeing awareness partially or wholly from the continual dominance of structure, of moving toward a freer, more wide-ranging awareness rather than a consciousness that is primarily a function of the automated structure... 

In a report prepared for the University of Michigan s Institute of Social Research, Paul Hirsch described the product of Adorno s Radio Research Project. (20) According to Hirsch, the establishment of postwar radio s Hit Parade "transformed the mass medium into an agency of sub-cultural programming." Radio networks were converted into round-the-clock recycling machines that repeated the top 40 "hits." Hirsch documents how all popular culture — movies, music, books, and fashion — is now ran on the same program of preselection. Today s mass culture operates like the opium trade the supply determines the demand. 

The final, and most obvious, economic value of growth regulators is their ability to increase crop yields directly by inducing more harvested fruits or pounds per acre. When compared with some of the relatively sophisticated uses within the framework of special cultural programs, it may sound rather mundane to mention the 15-25% increases in yield of... 

What, then, are the essential characteristics of the innovator To pretend that I can fully answer this question is the height of arrogance. Every human, no matter how "ordinary" we care to think he or she is, is one of the most complex entities in God s universe. The Innovator Is one of those entitles in every respect, with genetic and cultural programs and encrustations, but with a personality further complicated by extraordinary drives and peculiar depths and insights in particular areas of the intellect. Indeed, there may not even be a general answer to the question "What are the essential characteristics of the... 

UA deals with a society s tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity. It indicates to what extent a culture programs its members to feel either uncomfortable or comfortable in unstractured situations. Hofstede (1991) argues that high UA countries could have more people who feel under stress at work, want mles to be respected, and want to have a long-term stable career. People in high UA cultures are more driven to keep busy and are often more precise, whereas people in low U A countries are more relaxed in their work. 

This book is divided in four sections to provide you with a logical flow from where safety management begins and the cost of an incident, to methods for building and sustaining a safety culture, programs that support the safety culture, and finally methods that you can use to measure performance. 

While the fundamental concepts of a safety management system can be the same, we will discuss in Chapter 5, Overview of Basic Safety Management Systems , how it is deployed and sustained will vary based on the organization s culture. Program elements, safety-related... 

To facilitate road safety comparisons between countries, Coimtiy Overviews were developed in DaCoTA for each countiy [AAR 12], not only presenting the current state of road safety in terms of annual number of crashes or traffic victims, but also containing information on precursors for crashes, such as behavior and policy in a countiy. This information is organized by using the Road Safety Pyramid [WEG 05] which covers all layers related to stmcture and culture, programs and measures, road safety performance, indicators, road safety outcomes and social cost. 

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