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Society's level of literacy: A cross cultural study. ACES Working Papers No. 4, 2008

Shoham, Amir (2008) Society's level of literacy: A cross cultural study. ACES Working Papers No. 4, 2008. [Working Paper]

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    Abstract

    In this study, the relationship between the country's level of literacy and its national culture will be explored. Cultural differences effect the way that people think and react. Culture is "the value shared amongst distinctive social groups and classes" (Soley and Pandya 2003, 206). House, et al. (2004, 57) define culture as "shared motives, values, beliefs, identities, and interpretations or meanings of significant events that result from common experiences of members of collectives and are transmitted across age generations." Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede (1991) considers culture to be "the collective programming of the mind. Culture is a stem of collectively held values" (Hofstede 1981, p. 240).

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    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > culture policy
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > education policy/vocational training
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
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    Series: Series > American Consortium on European Union Studies > ACES Working Papers
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 13 Jan 2015 11:21
    Number of Pages: 14
    Last Modified: 13 Jan 2015 11:21
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/59069

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