Merton's functional sociology may have great practical use in the study of different cultures, yet it is perfectly clear, as Nagel ( 1957::

That animals and humans are more altruistic towards close kin than to distant kin and non-kin has been confirmed in numerous studies across many different cultures.

Ethnology involves the systematic comparison of different cultures.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural comparison and a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism.

Still more different from Bachofen's perspective is the lack of role permanency in Freud's view: Freud held that time and differing cultures would mold Athena to stand for what was necessary to them.

AA membership has since spread " across diverse cultures holding different beliefs and values ", including geopolitical areas resistant to grassroot movements.

In East Asia many types of armour were commonly used at different times by various cultures including, scale armour, lamellar armour, laminar armour, plated mail, mail, plate armour and brigandine.

* a given name in different cultures: Aria, Aryan ( both Persian or Indian names ) or Arian ( Albanian name )

The sender's personal filters and the receiver's personal filters may vary depending upon different regional traditions, cultures, or gender ; which may alter the intended meaning of message contents.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

Many cultures use different baselines for their calendars ' starting years.

Since humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, people living in different places or different circumstances develop different cultures.

Anthropologists have also pointed out that through culture people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often have different cultures.

Its seeds ( each one contained within a fruit, which is dried ) are used in the cuisines of many different cultures, in both whole and ground form.

Since most people, and most cultures, substantially agree about most pure ethical situations, casuistry often creates ethical arguments that can persuade people of different ethnic, religious and philosophical beliefs to treat particular cases in the same ways.

Even though slaves outnumbered the Portuguese colonists, the lack of weapons, the colonial law, the disagreement between slaves coming from different African cultures and their complete lack of knowledge about the land and its surroundings would usually discourage the idea of a rebellion.

Chauvinistic men believe “ that women are to be bullied, or humored, or charmed, or ignored .” Male chauvinism is seen in the home in different cultures.

However, Pfeiffer had little vision for what the combined companies should do, or indeed how the three dramatically different cultures could work as a single entity, and Compaq struggled as a result of a strategy that had the company caught in between the low end and high end.

Dance is a type of art that generally involves movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, performed in many different cultures and used as a form of expression, social interaction and exercise or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.

** Cultured milk resembling buttermilk, but uses different yeast and bacterial cultures

However, the symbols used in different areas are not identical ; for instance, Western Arabic numerals ( from which the European numerals are derived ) differ from the forms used by other Arab cultures.

Roleplaying can be done for quite a different purpose: to evaluate procedures, regardless of individuals.

Richard M. Davidson, however, points out that " on the basis of the final form of the OT canon, references to Abigail in the biblical accounts indicate two different individuals.

Since individuals act according to different probability judgements, these agents ' probabilities are " personal " ( but amenable to objective study ).

Though celebrities come from many different working fields, most celebrities are typically associated with individuals that come from the fields of sports and entertainment or a person who is a public figure in that is commonly recognizable in mass media.

Public Accountants are the accountancy and control experts that are legally certified in different jurisdictions to work in public practices, certifying accounts as statutory auditors, eventually selling advice and services to other individuals and businesses.

The different conceptions of CND-campaign by eminent individuals or mass movement-caused friction between leaders and supporters.

The remaining common characteristic is that which is similar to all of the different individuals.

Even within a denomination, individuals and groups may hold different views.

The puzzling phenomenon of two individuals being exposed to the same evidence and being able to reach different conclusions, has been frequently explained ( particularly by Daniel Kahneman ) by reference to a ' bounded rationality ' - that is most judgments are made by fast acting heuristics ( system 1 ) that work well in every day situations, but are not amenable to decision making about complex subjects such as climate change.

DNA from five demographically different individuals was used by Celera to generate the sequence of the human genome ; one of the individuals was Venter himself.

According to MSDN website, Microsoft acknowledges that " ext that is rendered with ClearType can also appear significantly different when viewed by individuals with varying levels of color sensitivity.

This exception stems from the ability of different sovereignties to charge individuals for the same crime.

All people would benefit from these insights into different subjects as a means of betterment ; bettering society as a whole and individuals alike.

In this sense, individuals may have multiple homes throughout their diaspora, with different reasons for maintaining some form of attachment to each.

The factions were often generationally identifiable, representing individuals who had entered the party at different times.

Different individuals or nations may have different real opportunity costs of production, say from differences in stocks of human capital per worker or capital / labour ratios.

: Random assignment is the process of assigning individuals at random to groups or to different groups in an experiment.

After Paul's departure, the churches were led astray from Paul's faith / trust centered teachings by individuals proposing " another gospel " ( which centered around salvation through the Mosaic law, so-called legalism ), whom Paul saw as preaching a " different gospel " from what Paul had taught.

If the DNA sequence at a particular locus varies between individuals, the different forms of this sequence are called alleles.

The combination was so unique that some have mistaken him for two different individuals.

Atrocities were committed by individuals of the different factions while Kabul descended into lawlessness and chaos as described in reports by Human Rights Watch and the Afghanistan Justice Project.

Because Halakha is developed and applied by various halakhic authorities, rather than one sole " official voice ", different individuals and communities may well have different answers to halakhic questions.

In modern times things are very different ; now we no longer see philosophic individuals who constitute a class by themselves.