Download or read book Symbols and Values written by Lyman Bryson and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Symbols and Values written by Lyman Bryson and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Values of Adinkra Symbols written by Adolph Hilary Agbo and published by Ebony Designs and Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Symbols of the 49 Values written by Edoardo Conte and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to the symbols of the 49 values is the answer to these times of change in which the backlash of a materialism, leveling the culture of the masses, wreaks havoc on common sense and gives value to forms rather than contents. The existential degradation barbarizes the minds, while the deliberate emotional emphasis and foul language that perverse on social networks condition most to follow illusory stereotypes in a sort of collective hypnosis. The danger of a brutalization of the population, especially of the youth, to the mere necessities of survival, is looming and worrying; therefore, it is necessary to re-establish the basis of civilization and peaceful coexistence by rediscovering and reactivating the values that qualify existence. The book proposes a qualitative architecture of life with which the reader can confront and find correspondences to bring out a subjective vision. It is, therefore, a sort of guide, but also a personal diary in which each value corresponds to a card containing the graphic symbol; the explanation of the value and the seed-thought to be used in meditation, to then write, in the appropriate spaces, the personal result with respect to each of the 49 fundamental values.
Download or read book Inflation of Symbols written by Orrin Edgar Klapp and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Americans are used to keeping tabs on inflation through the use of price indexes and interest rates, and to restraining it through the use of Federal Reserve monetary policy. No tabs, however, are kept on other kinds of inflation, of symbols other than money. Klapp looks into what the inflation of value might mean and how it occurs in social relations, popular culture, mass contagions, fads and fashions, even smiles and kisses. In Klapp's view, symbolic or cultural inflation applies to all social processes in which enlargement, expansion, or oversupply leads to the diminishing of value of a symbol. Its symptoms have been noted in the arts, in communications, and in politics, but there have been few, if any, attempts to analyze the mechanism by which such inflation occurs. The author attempts such an analysis, structuring it around those mechanisms he terms "social magnifiers." On the simplest level, there is mere overstatement, the exaggeration of claims that lose credibility as the reality is seen to fall short. More socially complex are types of magnifiers that involve shared cultural values and large groups of people. These include "crusading," the rhetorical inflation of a conflict into a war of good versus evil; emotional contagion, which through uncritical suggestibility draws large numbers of people into actions that exaggerate value; and self-expansion through identification with others, the vicarious triumphs and careers of heroes and celebrities, a process Klapp terms "emotional hitchhiking. "Finally, there is the market-like type of cultural inflation in which oversupply of a symbol leads to a weakening of its power to elicit desired responses. Klapp demonstrates how this market concept applies to such symbols as credentials, medals, smiles, kisses, greeting cards, religious tokens, fashions, and finally to information itself. The result of Klapp's study is to bring into focus this vast, pervasive, largely unwitting sort of inflation that eats away at cultural values that carry no price in the money market and to isolate various conditions--massness, egalitari-anism, loss of scarcity--that favor social inflation and thereby help us to understand (even to control?) it as a source of disappointment in modern society. This book will be of interest to sociologists, economists, and students of American culture concerned with the erosion of values in an information age.
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies written by Daniel Thomas Cook and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With entries detailing key concepts, persons, and approaches, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies provides definitive coverage of a field that has grown dramatically in scope and popularity around the world over the last two decades. Includes over 200 A-Z entries varying in length from 500 to 5,000 words, with a list of suggested readings for each entry and cross-references, as well as a lexicon by category, and a timeline Brings together the latest research and theories in the field from international contributors across a range of disciplines, from sociology, cultural studies, and advertising to anthropology, business, and consumer behavior Available online with interactive cross-referencing links and powerful searching capabilities within the work and across Wiley’s comprehensive online reference collection or as a single volume in print www.consumptionandconsumerstudies.com
Download or read book Symbols and Their Meanings written by Jack Tresidder and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did a symbol such as the cross, which today is so commonly associated with Christianity, come to appear in the pre-Columbian art of Central America? Why does the crow stand for death, evil and bad luck in Europe - but signify a creative and civilizing force in Native American culture? Every traditional symbol bears an elemental power that transcends boundaries and holds significance for many cultures. But the ways in which we interpret such power have varied tremendously around the world and through the ages. In Symbols and Their Meanings, author and art historian Jack Tresidder explores core symbols from across global cultures, through themes common to the world's spiritual imagination. Thought-provoking and visually stunning, Symbols and their Meanings offers a uniquely accessible compendium of symbols and symbol systems, and shows how the profound messages conveyed by symbols have enriched the world's cultural and spiritual heritage."--Front cover flap.
Download or read book Spiritual Symbols written by Nataša Pantović and published by Artof4Elements. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Ancient Egyptian Myth the hieroglyphic script was invented by the God Thoth. We all remember 1,000 distinct characters of formal writing system used by pharaohs. Now, cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood, this is what researchers now call “the Proto-Canaanite alphabet”, the term used for inscriptions older than around 1050 BC that later evolved into the Phoenician alphabet. Again, lots of countries, governments, scientists, religion leaders wish to claim the invention of the alphabet. What about Vinča's Neolithic (Serbian Danube) pottery scripts also found in China? Vinča's sophisticated carved statues signs, 100s of Canaan letters, Phoenicians Arabic, Ionic, Cyrillic, Aramaic, Chinese, Hebrew.
Download or read book The Secret Language of Symbols written by David Fontana and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the culture, history, and psychology that lies behind a wide range of symbols.
Download or read book Symbols and Values an Initial Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thought Signs written by Carl G. Liungman and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of Western ideograms ever published, unique in its search systems, that allows the reader to locate a symbol by defining just four of its visual characteristics. It is about our graphic cultural heritage as expressed in subway graffiti, fighter jets' signs and emergency exit symbols. It contains 2,300 symbols, 1,600 articles and streamlined reference functions. Ideogram scarved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men 25,000 years ago, put on modern household appliances by their manufacturers or sprayed on walls by political activists, are all presented in dictionary form for easy reference. Symbols cover current designs used in advertising, logotyping, architecture, design, decoration, religion, politics and astrology.
Download or read book Symbols and Values written by Lyman Bryson and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Symbols and values an initial study thirteenth symposium of the Conference on Science Philosophy and Religion written by Philosophy and Religion in their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life Conference on Science (Symposium) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Signs and Symbols written by DK and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since when did certain hand gestures become offensive? And why are scales a symbol of justice? For thousands of years, humans have communicated through a language of signs and symbols. From uniforms to body adornment and corporate logos, symbols are everywhere, and this book is your guide to their secret meanings and history. The Sun as well as the night sky with its stars and planets has long been used to symbolize supernatural forces. Learn about this and also how humans have used patterns, numbers, clothing, and more to signal authority, kinship, and status. Signs & Symbols decodes over 2000 emblems, explaining the visual language of architecture, heraldry, religion, and death. It answers questions such as why, for example, Christianity is symbolized by a fish, or how the Chinese use the crane bird to signify longevity. This comprehensive book also explores how certain gemstones or flowers became linked to personal qualities and how the alphabet and national flags came into being. Signs & Symbols will open your eyes to the fascinating world of symbolism that is embedded in every area of our lives.
Download or read book The Political Uses of Symbols written by Charles D. Elder and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conjuring Science written by Christopher P. Toumey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toumey focuses on the ways in which the symbols of science are employed to signify scientific authority in a variety of cases, from the selling of medical products to the making of public policy about AIDS/HIV--a practice he calls "conjuring" science. It is this "conjuring" of the images and symbols of scientific authority that troubles Toumey and leads him to reflect on the history of public understanding and perceptions of science in the United States.
Download or read book 1001 Symbols written by Jack Tresidder and published by Watkins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasingly chunky and vibrantly colorful, this pocket-sized compendium of common imagery in art, religion, and literature covers iconography from around the world.
