Scientific Study from the year 2012 in the subject Sport - Sport Economics, Sport Management, language: English, abstract: A ten-dimensional global sports study covering: 1.THE NATION AS THE DOMINANT FORCE: THE CULTURAL AMBIVALENCE INHERENT IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND IN GLOBAL SPORTS 2.THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL ASPECT 3.THE CULTURAL IMPERATIVE OF GLOBAL SPORTS 4.SOCCER FROM AN ECONOMIC AND A POLITICAL STANDPOINT 5.SOCCER FROM A SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 6.CULTURAL STRATEGY, TACTICS AND STYLES OF SOCCER 7.THE WESTERN CULTURAL BIAS WITH REGARD TO THE CULITVATION OF HUMAN BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT AND...

Anthology from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, course: Intercultural Management, language: English, abstract: Transculturalism is the complementary aspect of interculturalism. Both together provide a more complete picture of culture and thereby enhance its management. While the intercultural approach represents the past, the transcultural approach represents the future. At their convergence point they synergize as the living presence of culture to respond effectively to the cultural challenges of our time.

Scholarly Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, course: Kulturanthropologie, language: English, abstract: In this heading a twofold monumental assumption is hidden: Supreme intelligence can be equated to true cultural enlightenment. But in order to be truly enlightened in cultural matters a shadowless light is required. And as culture is part of the psychological architecture of man, the entire mental infrastructure needs to be illumined, for if one component of the whole casts a shadow, the entire mental architecture and with it the cultural contents will...

Scholarly Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, course: Kulturanthropologie, language: English, abstract: The term global is derived from the Latin word globus meaning ball which refers to the ball of the earth, the planet earth or what has become known as the blue planet by virtue of its marvelous blue appearance as seen by the astronauts from space. Consciousness is another Latin term which, according to language specialists, entered Western languages toward the end of the 12th century. Its Latin root word is conscientia which has the meaning of...

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: -, -, course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: The human, the physical as well as the consciousness cosmology are part of the totality of the universe. The Ancients have understood this principle and called it cosmos which means order. It is a hierarchical order, where the sun presides over the physical order in our solar system which in turn is hierarchically integrated in a galactic and those in turn in vaster systems. The various inner and outer cosmologies are part of the one life...

Scholarly Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, language: English, abstract: Unity and diversity together constitute the continuum of totality. In order to integrate it a mediator is required that contains the two. Although diversity can be polarized by unity it is no sustainable solution to the diversity challenge, because unity and diversity interact dialectically. The true diversity solution only resides in the transcendence of this continuum which is the transcendence of time, the psychological reversal of time. It is not a simple reconciliation in...

Document from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, language: English, abstract: This bilingual dictionary of English terms and concepts from the field of intercultural communication and management with their German adaptation is based on extractions from state-of-the-art intercultural literature (see Literature in the annex) and personal investigation. It responds to the needs of students and practitioners in the field. It is by no means meant to be exhaustive, but it rather is work in progress. I have tried to attribute all important concepts to their...

Scholarly Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: At the interface between diversity and common ground many human problems arise. Diversity is the unique variation, while all these singularities share a common environment, an interconnected ground. The concomitant, interrelated existence of the two might be referred to as the mystery of singular uniqueness versus the enigma of all encompassing unity. These timeless concomitant interdependent features of man's...

Document from the year 2011 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: Culture professional and layman alike can find in the present series of papers, in two volumes, the kind of inspiration that make the management of international diversity more simple as well as more effective and sustainable. It is explorative work that integrates state-of-the-art intercultural research in an innovative and effective formula derived from all major civilizations as well as from science. Those who hold offices in global...