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Perception Vs Reality in Culture

Author : Marlene Louis Blyden
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477156232
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Perception Vs Reality in Culture written by Marlene Louis Blyden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of my main goals in this book: to help you to take a few moments and see yourself through someone else’s eyes. You may think to yourself, “Why should I care about others’ perceptions of me?” On the fl ip side, I ask, “Why should they care about your perceptions of them?” You see, in a civilized society, our attitudes and behaviors affect each other. The old saying is still true, no one is an island. I also want you to see yourself not only as your “own person,” but as an individual from a particular cultural background. As a result, you will discover indeed your culture is jam-packed with pros and cons, and contradictions, just like the other person’s. Perception is not always the same as reality. It is OK to hang on to the positive, and let go of the negative aspects of your upbringing or background. Likewise, when you find yourself in a new country you do not have to adopt all attitudes and behaviors you see practiced there. In this book, I highlight some of the main observations that I have made after traveling and living in different parts of the world, as a participant and observer. I use satire (not so much sarcasm), and some levity to help paint a clearer picture of my experiences and observations of specifi c aspects of human nature and behavior, specifi cally in the Dominican, and American cultures. Isn’t it a great feeling when you are able laugh and learn, simultaneously? Sometimes a good, old belly-laugh (even at yourself) is exactly what the doctor ordered to get you out of a depressing or lackluster mood. ~ Marlene Louis Blyden~

Making Sense of Reality

Author : Tia DeNora
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473905516
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Reality written by Tia DeNora and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as ‘real’ are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always ‘virtually real’, that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences. Making Sense of Reality offers students and educators a guide to analysing social life. It develops a performance-based perspective (‘doing things with’) that highlights the ever-revised dimension of realities and links this perspective to a focus on object-relations and an ecological model of culture-in-action.

Reality in Everyday Life

Author : Tia DeNora
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781446288320
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Reality in Everyday Life written by Tia DeNora and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book suggests that the realities we take as 'real' are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always, 'virtually real', that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences.

Culture

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Sense of Reality

Author : Kerstin Pilkvist
Publisher : Socialy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781681178042
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Reality written by Kerstin Pilkvist and published by Socialy Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realistic' is a term of everyday use and a word that non-academics use frequently and unguardedly in talking about pictures. Roughly, it can be taken to mean that the depiction is like the real thing of which it is a depiction; more specifically that the depiction is like the real thing with respect to its visual character. When we examine the world of sentient beings, some portions of it are certainly thought to be governed by `necessity'. There are, to begin with, the effects of the interplay of human beings with nature -- their own bodies and what is external to them. Our personal perceptions of the world influence us on many levels. Our perceptions mandate our expectations, thoughts, emotional reactions, and even the physical terrain of our nervous system. Our perceptions therefore shape the person we are when are alone and with a group. It includes what comes to your mind when you see a tree; the thoughts that manifest when thinking about Africa; the emotions that unfold when confronted with new ideas, and so on. You understand the world through your perceptions of it. The way your world view, reality tunnel, mental filter, or perception is constructed has been theorized on for years, and it is closely related to the nature. Of course there are many things that influence the way you see and feel the world. This book examines the practices that illuminate reality as always virtually real, that is simplified and artfully produced. It also shows how the sense of reality that we make is however real in its consequences. Behind all these behaviours and mindsets are value systems. When people adopt and believe things without bringing a conscious mind to the subject, they give up their individuality. They let others do their own thinking for them, and in the case of culture, essentially adopt a kind of religion. Making Sense of Reality offers students and educators a guide to analysing social life.

Suspensions of Perception

Author : Jonathan Crary
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531993
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Suspensions of Perception written by Jonathan Crary and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a central element in the efficient functioning of economic and disciplinary institutions as well as the emerging spaces of mass consumption and spectacle. Crary approaches these issues through multiple analyses of single works by three key modernist painters—Manet, Seurat, and Cezanne—who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representational practices. Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture.

Real Leaders Don't Follow

Author : Steve Tobak
Publisher : Entrepreneur Press
ISBN 13 : 1613083203
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Real Leaders Don't Follow written by Steve Tobak and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders Lead. Followers Follow. You Can't Do Both. Acknowledging the great irony that most of today's inspiring entrepreneurs are following the crowd instead of doing what innovative leaders like Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk did to become successful, Silicon Valley management consultant Steve Tobak delivers some truth: Nobody ever made it big by doing what everyone else is doing. Drawing upon decades of personal experience with hundreds of accomplished entrepreneurs, CEOs, and venture capitalists, Tobak provides a unique perspective on today's technology revolution, exposes popular myths that masquerade as common wisdom and shows you what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and an exceptional business leaders in today's highly competitive world.

Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures

Author : Yueh-Ting Lee
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134808224
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures written by Yueh-Ting Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither human nature nor personality can be independent of culture. Human beings share certain social norms or rules within their cultural groups. Over 2000 years ago, Aristotle held that man is by nature a social animal. Similarly, Xun Kuang (298-238 B.C.), a Chinese philosopher, pointed out that humans in social groups can not function without shared guidance or rules. This book is designed to provide readers with a perspective on how people are different from, and similar to, each other --both within and across cultures. One of its goals is to offer a practical guide for people preparing to interact with those whose cultural background is different from their own.

Reality, Perception, and Your Company's Workplace Culture

Author : Daniel Bloom
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429769016
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Reality, Perception, and Your Company's Workplace Culture written by Daniel Bloom and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality and Perception and Your Company's Workplace Culture presents a demonstrable path for navigating the change-management process from beginning to end while fully detailing its obstacles and its triumphs. The book presents the view of a fictional 100-year old company called Acme Gyroscope, which is a family owned and run business, and the reader sees how the operation was ruled with an iron hand by the outgoing CEO. When the son of this current CEO assumes the role, he finds that the processes and culture within the organization are not quite as rosy as he thought they were. The new CEO finds that there is a wide divide between what is believed and what is real. The story follows the new CEO and his team as they uncover the problems that exist and discover solutions with the help of the Change Maestro who is an expert on understanding the difference between reality (see the problems, feel the problems, and create the new normal) and perception (preconceived notions of causes and solutions to problems). Utilizing the TLS (Theory of Constraints - Lean - Six Sigma) Continuum toolbox, the Change Maestro takes the management team through the process of resolving the issues at hand and assists in creating a new normal for corporate culture and problem solving. Presented in ten chapters, each representing points on the critical path, it walks the reader through the change process to its conclusion reaching the final point -- the argument for the new normal corporate culture for long-term strategy and survival.

Perception

Author : Dennis Proffitt
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250219124
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Perception written by Dennis Proffitt and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain. Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look less steep as dieters lose weight, baseballs grow bigger the better players hit, hills look less daunting if you’re standing next to a close friend, and learning happens faster when you can talk with your hands. Written with journalist Drake Baer, Perception marries academic rigor with mainstream accessibility. The research presented and the personalities profiled will show what it means to not only have, but be, your unique human body. The positive ramifications of viewing ourselves from this embodied perspective include greater athletic, academic, and professional achievement, more nourishing relationships, and greater personal well-being. The better we can understand what our bodies are—what they excel at, what they need, what they must avoid—the better we can live our lives.

Perception Vs Truth: Spirituality In Simple Words

Author : Eyal Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789655991819
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Perception Vs Truth: Spirituality In Simple Words written by Eyal Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By opening your mind, you can change your life in 180 degrees, making the phrase "Everything is in your head" more important than ever The perception of reality steers our thoughts, feelings, the choices we make and the way we live our life. It is the underlying reason why our lives are the way they are. People who never examine their point of view of the world miss the chance to significantly change their lives. What shapes our perception is the country we live in, society, culture, religion, parents, teachers, and publications like the internet, television, movies, radio, newspapers, and literature. Many people are misguided by their perceptions, which constantly get them into problems. This book, Perception vs. Truth, was born as a result of that insight. As the name suggests, much of the reality we take for granted in our lives simply isn't true. Perception vs. Truth is a wake-up call for all of us. It is a fascinating read, full of interesting insights. It is a spring to quench one's thirst for knowledge and understanding. It can open your mind to different ways of thinking, new feelings, and novel behavior. Perception vs. Truth is a reminder that our lives can change just by changing the way we're perceiving it.

Art, Perception, and Reality

Author : E. H. Gombrich
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801815522
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Art, Perception, and Reality written by E. H. Gombrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1973-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores questions relating to the nature of representation in art. It asks how we recognize likeness in caricatures or portraits, for instance, and presents the conflicting arguments and opinions of an art historian, a psychologist and a philosopher.

The Oldest Living Things in the World

Author : Rachel Sussman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022605764X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Oldest Living Things in the World written by Rachel Sussman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines, continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman’s relentless curiosity. She begins at “year zero,” and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a century, to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America, a predatory fungus in Oregon, Caribbean brain coral, to an 80,000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5,500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites, primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to Tasmania to capture a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub that’s the last individual of its kind. Her portraits reveal the living history of our planet—and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the world’s most extreme environments, yet climate change and human encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human hands. Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating – and sometimes harrowing – tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.

Reality Media

Author : Jay David Bolter
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262045125
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Reality Media written by Jay David Bolter and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How augmented reality and virtual reality are taking their places in contemporary media culture alongside film and television. T This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. The authors view AR and VR not as the latest hyped technologies but as media—the latest in a series of what they term “reality media,” taking their places alongside film and television. Reality media inserts a layer of media between us and our perception of the world; AR and VR do not replace reality but refashion a reality for us. Each reality medium mediates and remediates; each offers a new representation that we implicitly compare to our experience of the world in itself but also through other media. The authors show that as forms of reality media emerge, they not only chart a future path for media culture, but also redefine media past. With AR and VR in mind, then, we can recognize their precursors in eighteenth-century panoramas and the Broadway lights of the 1930s. A digital version of Reality Media, available through the book’s website, invites readers to visit a series of virtual rooms featuring interactivity, 3-D models, videos, images, and texts that explore the themes of the book.

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and the Perception of Reality

Author : Patrick de Vries
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
ISBN 13 : 9783775745277
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and the Perception of Reality written by Patrick de Vries and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at a refined selection of drawings by Alberto Giacometti and examines them against the background provided by more than one hundred letters exchanged between Giacometti and his parents, the majority of which have not previously been published. The choice of drawings and the selected correspondence illuminate important aspects of the development of Giacometti's work over five decades of his life. Furthermore, Patrick de Vries examines Alberto Giacometti's friendships with important contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso, Francis Gruber, Balthus, and Tal-Coat, and discloses the artists' views of each other, as well as links and dissimilarities in their work. Discussions with Giacometti's friend, the Japanese philosopher Isaku Yanaihara, reveal interesting insights into the, rarely discussed, subject of Giacometti's fascination with East Asian Art.

Perception of Reality and the Fate of a Civilization

Author : Richard J. Robertson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462840647
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Perception of Reality and the Fate of a Civilization written by Richard J. Robertson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-11-18 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many observers of the world scene in recent decades have raised questions about the future of Western Civilization, and the United States as the foremost exemplar. They see us locked in tangles of inconsistent intentions and self contradictory efforts to remedy growing political and environmental problems. This development may be an inevitable consequence of the evolution of first principles which deteriorate in a civilization as their implications are drawn out over time. The process is one in which people behaving to maximise individual and social purposes competitively reinterpret their perceptions of reality until the culture stagnates from a deficiency of common purpose.

Neurological Nexus: Navigating the Intricacies of the Human Mind

Author : Anubhav Chaurasia
Publisher : KDP
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neurological Nexus: Navigating the Intricacies of the Human Mind written by Anubhav Chaurasia and published by KDP. This book was released on with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a profound voyage of self-discovery and understanding with "Neurological Nexus: Navigating the Intricacies of the Human Mind" This captivating book delves into the intricate complexities of the human mind, offering readers an immersive exploration of psychology, neuroscience, and the vast landscapes of consciousness. With meticulous detail and engaging prose, the author guide you through the multifaceted dimensions of the mind, from the conscious to the subconscious. Uncover the secrets of decision-making, the power of beliefs, and the profound impact of emotions on behavior. As you journey through the chapters, you'll unlock the mysteries of dreams, navigate the realms of perception and identity, and delve into the fascinating world of social psychology. But this book is more than just a cerebral adventure—it's a toolkit for personal growth. Practical exercises and valuable resources empower you to apply the insights gained from these pages to your own life, fostering self-awareness and mental well-being. "Neurological Nexus" is an illuminating guide for anyone intrigued by the enigma of the human mind. Whether you're a psychology enthusiast, a student seeking knowledge, or simply curious about the workings of your own consciousness, this book promises an unforgettable voyage into the limitless potential of the human mind.