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The Unifying Aspects of Cultures

SECTION:

Universal and National Concepts in Historical Perspective

Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Papers to:
Email: Valery Timofeev (St. Petersburg)
Email: Alexandr W. Belobratow / Elena Apenko (St. Petersburg)

ABSTRACT: Proposals for this panel should include issues exploring changes in National cultural concepts that occurred during the last 100 years through a variety of approaches - historical, sociological, cultural, ideological, comparative, etc. Papers might consider cultural concepts and their representation such as State, Nation, People, Wealth, Power, Family, Individual, the Figure of the Hero, Health, Neighbors (including Citizens of Neighboring States), Authority, Work, Freedom, Security, Nature, Leisure, etc. We propose to discuss how the concepts change or remain stable as well as how their roles and the places they occupy in the National system of values shift over time. European civilizations might be regarded as a major melting pot for these concepts, and thus close examination of particular institutions and structures that impact the concepts (some fostering changes while others maintain their stability) would be of special interest.

THE UNIFYING ASPECTS OF CULTURES