OPINIONS OF CULTURALLY DIVERSE SAMPLE OF ASIANS ON WISDOM

• Authors: Brezina Ivan , Ritomsky Alojz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Development of expert theories of wisdom shows a general shift from emphasizing the role of cognitive processes to broader definitions, which perceive wisdom as a way of integration of cognitive skills, emotional abilities and personality. Within the Eastern concepts of wisdom, its spiritual part is often mentioned. Research studies of public opinions about wisdom, conducted on a Western sample and confronted with pioneer findings obtained on non-Western samples show that it may result appropriate to contemplate the concept of Western wisdom as dominantly based on rationality, knowledge and reason and the Eastern approaches as the ones emphasizing emotions, intuition and transience. The sample of 646 students from culturally and religiously differentiated regions of Asia documents the variability of answers to the scale-type inventory questions and the sample introduces us to the diversity in basic parameters of Eastern understanding of wisdom.

Keywords

EN

ASIANS; CULTURE; OPINION; RELIGION; RESEARCH; WISDOM

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 619-637
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Brezina Ivan

author

Ritomsky Alojz

• PhDr. Ivan Brezina, PhD., Ustav experimentalnej psychologie SAV, Dubravska 9, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA095326