• 영어영문학
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.597-618
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• 2009

Leslie Marmon Silko, in her novel Gardens in the Dunes, primarily focuses on revealing the white colonialists' plan to exterminate and destroy American Indians and their culture. In this regard, this novel is clearly an Indian counter narrative to interrogate and abrogate the authority of the oppressive and destructive discourse of the whites who are full of colonialist impulses to sterilize Indians and their culture. However, it should be noted that Silko is very careful not to insist on cultural exclusivism and reverse ethnocentrism, since these only mean a return to the violent colonialists' discourse based on dualism and cultural authenticity which, she believes, has led to the marginalization and eventual deterioration of Indians and their culture. White values and culture are something to recognize and tolerate as long as they are not the products of witchery, also known as the destroyer or evil for Silko, which promotes disruption and antagonism between races and classes. As she reveals in her interview, her major concern in the novel is to dismantle political and/or racial distinctions like Native Americans versus EuroAmericans and thus to enhance the idea of the reconciliation and coexistence of whites and Indians. Silko's Gardens in the Dunes can be regarded as an experiment in the possibility of the universal and homogeneous (at least in its roots) global culture which tolerates all forms of culture. Global culture does not mean a uniform totalitarian culture but a vision of a harmonious world characterized by hybridity and heterogeneity, in which different cultures associate freely without the notion of inferiority or superiority of any one culture. Silko's belief in syncretism emphasizes the spirit of tolerance and exchange between different cultures, dismantling the authority of exclusive ethnocentrism. The ultimate message implied in Gardens in the Dunes is that the syncretic spirit is not only an effective means to correct the white colonialists' hegemonic desire aimed at the extermination of Indians and their culture but also a source of energy for the life and prosperity of modern Indians and their societies.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제10권
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• pp.39-70
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• 1983

The concept of the public library defined by the Korean Library Association does not describe the current state of the Korean public library but describes the public libraries in the western society. Korean public library was formed after the western public library but it was modified and reconciled with the tradition of Korea. The difference between the concepts occured in the acculturation process of the Korean public library. According to the International Encyclopeadia of the Social Sciences, acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous firsthand contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either of both groups. Korea opened its door to western world in 1876, and it began to contact with the western world. As the consequence, the concept of the public library of the West diffused to Lee Dynasty which were characterized by the confucianism and the extended family system. These two characteristics were against the public library concept and it could not function as it was and it had to be modified to fit to Korean society. The American public library was formed by the diffusion of English public library. The concept fitted in the colonial American society which was characterized by the Christianity and nuclear family system. Religion and family life were closely knitted together and they contributed much to the formation of the American public library. Also the society needed various information to form their new nation. The need of the public library grew and the public library repidly developed as the American society was urbanized and industrialized. The changes of Korean public library has passed the following process of acculturation. 1. The Korean culture contacted with Western world. 2. The public library concept diffused to Korea, but the people were illiterate and the need of the public library was for the preservation of the old books. The collection was not for people. 3. The function of the public library in Korea was altered slightly as several intellectuals who formed the first modern public library tried to literate Koreans as a means of liberation :from Japan through the library service. 4. The traditional libraries such as sodandg and hyangyo disorganized and finally disappeared as the traditional elements of the culture disappeared and the new cultural elements prevailed in Korea. 5. When the traditional elements of culture were disorganized, a reinterpretation of the diffused culture appeared. With the appearance of the vouth group which was not existed in the traditional society, cultural facilities for them were needed. They began to use public library as their reading rooms. This pattern has been institutionalized ever since in Korean public library. 6. When the new element of the culture spread, the traditional cultural elements react against this element. As the new public libraries sprung out, there were movements to restore the old Korean tradition of the family libraries and Hyangyo to counteract to the new libraries. This movements were not successful and they all disappeared as they could not keep up the rapid social change occurred in the Korean society. 7. In the process of the cultral change, cultural lag occurred between the public library and the users who could not adopt to the new library. This has been continued to the present time. 8. This diffused concept of the public library was modified and became native to Korean society. However, the acculturation of the public library concept has not changed the traditional ideas of Korean people and their behavior. The Korean society recently has been changing rapidly and the function of the Korean public library is improving accordingly; 1. The extended Korean family system is disorganizing. As the consequence, the public library could substitute the family system offering information and recreation service, etc. 2. The growth of educated population is requiring a variety of library materials. An individual library can not meet the needs of them and cooperative library service will be needed to share resources. The public library will become the center of the cooperative service. 3. The Koreans are watching TV more hours than they read printed materials. For them, the public library needs to collect audiovisual materials. Especially the teaching materials should be all audiovisualized for the effective teaching. 4. Technology is developing rapidly in Korea, especially computer technology is applied in many parts of the society. This will also influence library service. The public library will be developing as the centralized library computer system. When the Korean public library functions as the extended family system and the center of the cooperative library system, the Korean public library will be functioning as the public library defined by the Korean Library Association.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.635-654
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• 2012

This paper studied sports-inspired fashion(SIF) that is often characterized as 'designer clothes inspired by active sportswear.' First, we reviewed the social, economical, artistic, and technological background behind its development. Second, we studied the development history of SIF by classifying it into four periods. Third, we analyzed how SIF emerged and developed with its own characteristics from a historical perspective. For a theoretical background, we did a critical review of previous literature in the field of clothing history, history of culture, and art history. We collected the data from magazines, such as Fashion Show and Gap Press and from the internet sources as well, such as firstviewkorea.com. We also did the content analysis of the data by consulting a chosen group of fashion designers. This study revealed that active sportswear started to develop from everyday clothes for functional convenience in the beginning and then SIF emerged later as a major fashion trend with the popularity of sportive look. This trend became stronger with the global spread of American popular culture. SIF eventually became high fashion with collaboration between sportswear industry and designers. This study confirmed that SIF reflects the characteristics of many sports games in silhouettes, colors, and details. It is predicted that sports will continue to be an important source of inspiration for fashion designers.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.1-13
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• 1997

Hipp8ie style was introduced in 1960s when young generation's movement against industrial society and mass culture was spread. Its value was to go back to "Real and Pure Nature". Hippie originated from "Human Be-in" which was on-violent revolution held in sanfrancisco. American Hippie style was represented through freedom and love based on drug and psychedelic culture which were created by the young generation who were against traditional esthetic value as well as the moral and material value. However, Hippie style was represented differently in France. The privilege classes such as artists who were interested in surrealism, art negro and primitive culture, the intelligentsia like Montparnass in Paris, accepted Hippie style faster than ordinary people did. therefor, Hippie style in france was represented as an esthetic mode not a symbol of anti-culture and anti-policy. The general public imitated the style of the privileged classes and coordinated their style according to their personality without any standard such as blue jeans, ethnic, psychedelic, mini, mods, beatnik, etc. Yves Saint Laurent who was influenced by hippies led the mode of Paris to introduce "Africa", "Saharienne", "Pathwork". therefore, in 1960's fashion in Paris, everything was possible because of too many changes in fashion and refusal of accepting vogue.

• 인문언어
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• 제6권
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• pp.109-145
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• 2004

Social scientists in North America, especially anthropologists, folklorists and linguists, who focus on the study language use and its connection to society, use a variety of labels to describe what they do. Among the best known are 'anthropological linguistics' , 'linguistic anthropology', and 'sociolinguistics'. All of these labels imply that their focus is on the study of language usage in society and culture for their teaching, research and publications. In this paper I am examining the intellectual issues and history that underlie the differences in the labels. The differences and similarities that characterize them are discussed. The author proposes 'linguistic anthropology' as the most useful disciplinary terminology if the study of language combined with culture is to be 'community-centric' and not only 'profession-centric' . He encourages a renewed focus on working with communities. Also, a need to find ways to engage Indigenous members of minority language communities more actively should be a primary goal in the process of 'academic' language work. This is important due to the loss rapid extinction of the many of the world's languages. The author points out that it does matter what we call the work we do, as a label may carry a message of meaning, intent and focus.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2021

The aim of this study is to understand how English textbooks in Korea and Japan reflect English education policies for improving the English language learners' cultural ability. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, the method of analyzing English textbooks was used because English textbooks are an important tool that most specifically reflects the English policy of a country. This study analyzed a total of six English textbooks, three middle school English textbooks currently used in Korea and three in Japan. We analyzed nouns/pronouns related to culture presented in the reading section included in each unit, and compared cultural diversity and cultural identity included in English textbooks in Korea and Japan. As a result, it was found that both countries experienced cultural diversity through English education and introduced their cultural pride to Western culture to realize the goal of strengthening global capabilities. This textbook analysis results show that English textbooks of Korea and Japan depend on American/British cultures and norms. The cultural contents of English textbooks in Korea and Japan tend to focus on geography, food and drink, festivals and activities, family and education systems, etc. And English textbooks in Korea and Japan include the cultural sections in each lesson, but they don't suggest how to relate these cultural sections into the learners' real experiences. These results can be utilized as the motives from which both countries develop English education policy and textbooks in the future.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.161-170
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• 2003

20세기 말부터 급격한 발달을 통하여 웹사이트는 사용자의 대상 범주를 단일 문화권에서 벗어나 전세계의 타 문화권에 거주하는 사람들에게 이르기까지 넓혀왔다. 이는 다시 말하면 웹사이트가 태생적으로 문화와의 연관성을 가지고 있다는 것을 의미한다. 이러한 다국적 문화 수용체로서의 웹의 역할을 생각하여 볼 때, 서로 다른 문화권에서 웹사이트가 어떠한 형태로 변환되어 적용되어야 하는가를 보다 심층적으로 밝혀내고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 웹사이트의 구조가 각기 다른 문화권의 영향에 따라서 변화한다는 가설을 바탕으로 그 진위여부를 밝히는 것을 그 목적으로 하였으며, 이를 위하여 다음과 같은 실험을 진행하였다. 우선 여러 가지 문화이론을 기반으로, 현재 IT산업의 활발한 발달 모습을 보이고 있는 한국과 미국의 웹사이트가 그 문화적인 차이로 인하여 어떻게 다른 양상을 띄고 있는지를 웹사이트의 구조(Structure & Navigation)를 중심으로 분석하였다. 우선 각 국가별 20여 개의 종합쇼핑몰(I-commerce) 사이트들을 분석하기 위하여, 종합쇼핑몰 평가가이드라인 (I-commerce Site Evaluation Guideline)을 사이트 정보의 흐름과 페이지 별 분석으로 나누어 제안하고, 이를 이용하여 비교 분석한 결과를 바탕으로 문화권에 따른 국가별 선호 프로토타입(prototype)을 디자인하였으며, 이렇게 제안된 국가별 선호 프로토타입을 이용하여 원격 사용성 평가와 문화적 가치에 관한 설문을 통하여 국가별 웹사이트의 구조 선호도에 관한 가설의 진위 여부를 밝혀 내었다. 또한 이에 문화와 웹 인터페이스와의 연관성 및 국가별 사이트 네비게이션의 선호도에 대한 결과를 다양한 문화 이론을 바탕으로 해석해 내었다. 조직의 강도(

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.301-309
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• 2001

교정치료를 받고자 하는 많은 사람들이 관심을 갖는 중요한 동기중의 하나가 미적 안모의 추구이기 때문에, 미적 안모를 평가하는 기준이 성별이나 환자가 속해있는 문화권에 따라서 달라진다면, 이에 대한 정확한 이해가 치료목표의 설정에 있어서 중요한 역할을 한다고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 성별이나 문화가 매력적인 측모를 판단하는데 영향력을 발휘하는지를 알아보기 위해 4개의 평가 군으로 하여금 133명의 일반인 사진 중에서 좋은 측모를 가진 사람의 사진을 채점방식에 의해 선택하게 하였고, 좋은 측모 군을 평가하는 경향이나 평가점수의 차이를 이용하여, 4평가 군 사이에 좋은 측모를 선정하는데 있어서 차이가 있는지를 Bonferroni's multiple comparison과 randomized block designed ANOVA를 통하여 통계적으로 검증하였다. 4개의 평가 군은 한국에 거주하는 10명의 20대 남자 군과 10명의 20대 여자 군, 10명의 20대 재미한국인 남자 군, 그리고 10명의 20대 재미한국인 여자 군으로 구성되었으며, 선택된 좋은 안모 군의 연조직 형태는 두부방사선 사진의 투사도를 사용하여 선계측, 각계측, 그리고 비율계측을 함으로써 비교 분석하였고, 이를 통해서 다음의 결과를 얻었다. 1. 심미적인 측모를 판별하는데 있어서의 개인적인 차이 여부를 통계적으로 입증한 결과, 아름다움에 대한 개념이 지극히 주관적이라는 통념과 일치하는 것으로 사료 된다. 2. 동일한 문화권에 살고있는 한국인에서, 성별의 차이는 심미적 측모의 평가에 영향을 주지 않았다. 3. 다른 문화권에서 생활하는 같은 민족적 동질성을 가진 두 집단의 한국인간에 심미적 측모를 선택하는데 서로 다른 양상을 보였으며, 이는 미의 기준을 설정하는 데에 있어서 문화가 더 큰 변수임을 입증하고 있다. 4. 좋은 안모 군과 좋지 않은 안모 군에서의 연조직 분석에서 하안면부 수직 고경의 비율, 안면 돌출도 및 상하순의 전후방적 위치 관계에서 특징적인 차이를 나타내었다.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2002

본 연구는 한국에 거주하는 미국인 및 캐나다인의 식품구입 및 한국식당 이용실태를 조사한 결과 한국마켓에서의 식재료가 안전한지를 묻는 질문에 38%가 아니라고 응답하였고 77%가 음용수의 안전성을 확신한다고 대답하였으나 54%의 응답자는 수입된 물을 구입해서 마신다고 하였으며 한국음식을 상당히 좋아하고 한국음식점을 즐겨 찾는 것으로 나타났으며 한국음식의 단맛, 짠맛, spicy한 정도는 강하지 않다고 응답하였고 식당 종업원들의 위생관념에는 만족하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 대부분의 응답자가 한국마켓에서의 식재료의 안전도에 관해서는 신뢰하고 있었으나, 일부 응답자들은 본국에서 음용수 및 음식을 가져다 먹는다고 응답한 것으로 보아 식재료에 대한 더욱 철저한 위생관리가 필요하다고 여겨지며, 또한 한국음식점 이용에 대한 질문에서도 전반적으로 좋은 반응을 보였으나 종업원의 위생관념의 부족을 지적한 바, 음식점에서의 위생분야에 더욱 주의를 기울여야 할 것을 지적하고자 한다.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.329-339
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of service failure magnitude on perceived justice, positive emotion, and revisit intention at restaurants between a collectivist culture(Korea) and an individualistic culture(United States). The results showed that the higher a customer's perception of service failure magnitude, the lower the perceived recovery justices in both cultures. The distributive, procedural, and interactional justices had a favorable effect on positive emotions in both cultures. Other findings revealed that interactional justice was the best predictor of revisit intention in Korea, while distributive justice was the best determinant of revisit intention in the United States. This research suggests that global restaurant managers need to understand how cultural orientation influences consumer perceptions of service failures in order to develop a highly targeted and effective service recovery.