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Hello,I'm a postgraduate student from Russia. I study American Culture.Please! If you consider youself part of American Culture, answer the following questions. It will take you only 2-3 minutes! We are interested in YOUR OWN idea of who are the Pioneers, so, please, do not look up in the encyclopedias or dictionaries, just give your views on the following. Thank you!!!)Information about you:age sexoccupation The questions of the research:I.) What words/phrases come to your mind, when you hear ?pioneer??II.) When I think of a “pioneer” the following pictures come to my mind:III.) Continue the following phrases:a.) A pioneer always ?b.) A pioneer never ? IV. Do you know any famous pioneers (if “yes”, give their names)?Thank you!!!
This is for an academic research project? Did you have to get this survey approved by an ethics board? And lastly, what makes you think that it will be Americans answering the questions? We have active board memebrs from all over the world here.
This is for an academic research project? Did you have to get this survey approved by an ethics board? And lastly, what makes you think that it will be Americans answering the questions? We have active board memebrs from all over the world here.
What is “ethics board”?Just the phrase “if you consider yourself part of American Culture” makes me HOPE that it will be Americans answering the Qs.I'm making the research according to the fixed model (in Russian Linguocultural Study). Posting to forums is all I can being so far from real representatives of the US society.
Generally, In American Academia, if you are conducting research using real people, whether medical or otherwise, the research model and proposed questions if it is a survey must be passed by an academic ethics panel before the research is conducted. That is why I asked. This is one school site that explains it. I know that the school I went to required ethical approval for any research-related interactivity between researchers and people, even if it was just a survey or conduction interviews.
Midkit, I sent you a response via PM. I treated “pioneer” as the frontier type, but now I'm not sure if that's the kind of “pioneer” you were looking for.
I treated “pioneer” as the frontier type, but now I'm not sure if that's the kind of “pioneer” you were looking for.
Phidippides, thanks a lot for your answer! Actually, that is one of the aspects that I am to find out: the way you understand this concept (whether it is more a historical type – “Pioneers of the Wild West” or the modern type like “pioneers of aviation”, etc.; the way you see them. By the way, as far as I understand, the first one gave birth to the latter). According to linguocultural study idea all this may help us to explore the national values and ideas of the USA culture and thus it may lead our nations to a better mutual understanding (I'm not speaking only about my research, the idea is that in every culture there can be singled out some peculiar types. For example, in American cuture they are: cowboy, pioneer, superhero, Hollywood star and others. All of them represent a special set of values and may be very helpful in modeling the national worldview of a definite nation).Thank you!
…the idea is that in every culture there can be singled out some peculiar types. For example, in American cuture they are: cowboy, pioneer, superhero, Hollywood star and others.
So this is what America is when you boil it down to its essence, eh? ;DActually, I would be interested in hearing about your research and about what other national types are that you have been discovering. I do admit that my definition of “pioneer” as the historical-frontier type was due in part to this being a history forum. I don't know if that skews the data at all.
So this is what America is when you boil it down to its essence, eh? ;D
;D ;D In a way. These types prove such US national ideas as freedom, independence, self-sufficiency, disposition to risk, striving to change the world to the better (no matter if the world wants it or not))), and many others.It is a part of linguistics, so first we make a study of dictionaries, thesaurus, encyclopedias, etc. But then we need to discover the image, that is presented in the minds of representatives of the culture under study. And all this is done to get a clearer idea of the way American people see things in the world ('cause, I think, You'd agree that we may see one and the same thing differently due to our surroundings, history, education, political system , personal experience and many others)
Actually, I would be interested in hearing about your research and about what other national types are that you have been discovering. I do admit that my definition of “pioneer” as the historical-frontier type was due in part to this being a history forum. I don't know if that skews the data at all.
I study just one type (and there's a lot to investigate!). For example in Russian culture we can distinguish the following types:hussar, intellectual ( a representative of intellectual elite), Ivan the Fool, Cossack, etc.In British Culture:aristocrat, snob, dandy, eccentric, British Queen, colonialist, etc.
I do admit that my definition of “pioneer” as the historical-frontier type was due in part to this being a history forum. I don't know if that skews the data at all.
Among the two unerstandings of “pioneer”, the historical-frontier is much brighter, I guess, but I may be wrong, 'cause my view is from without. That's why we need the questionnaire so much. And I have no opportunity to go the US.
