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Cultural transmission and ecological opportunity jointly shaped global patterns of reliance on agriculture
The evolution of agriculture improved food security and enabled significant increases in the size and complexity of human groups. Despite these positive effects, some societies never adopted these practices, became only partially reliant on them, or even reverted to foraging … Continue reading
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Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning
Despite the recognized importance of cultural diversity in understanding the modern world, the emerging science of cognitive psychology has relied far more on experimental psychology, neurobiology, and computer science than on cultural anthropology for its models of how we think. … Continue reading
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Culture and Social change – Ideology and Critique
How do we achieve social justice? How do we change society for the better? Some would argue that we must do it by changing the laws or state institutions. Others that we must do it by changing individual attitudes. I … Continue reading
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Multiculturalism without Culture
Anne Phillips is a feminist theorist with some quite strong views (I previously read her book “Which Equalities Matter?”). In “Multiculturalism Without Culture”, she wrestles with a basic contradiction. On the one hand, “culture” matters. This is the central insight … Continue reading
The creative mind: cognition, society and culture
This article provides an overview of the main tendencies and ideas in the embodied mind paradigm in the expanding field of modern cognitive science. The focus is not on the biological and neurological aspects of cognitive science, rather the article demonstrates how basic … Continue reading
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Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters
Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers have developed theoretical models, both verbal and mathematical, to facilitate our understanding of these patterns. Many of the … Continue reading
The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception
There is recent evidence that perceptual processes are influenced by culture. Westerners tend to engage in context-independent and analytic perceptual processes by focusing on a salient object independently of its context, whereas Asians tend to engage in context-dependent and holistic … Continue reading
Interculturalism or multiculturalism?
This essay discusses the difference between the concepts of multiculturalism and interculturalism, both concepts which are currently on the Canadian scene. It argues that the difference between the two is not so much a matter of the concrete policies, but … Continue reading
Culture, history, and psychology: Some historical reflections and research directions
Psychologists have typically narrated their discipline’s history so as to glorify an experimental method, which analyzes the mind independently of cultural and historical factors. In line with Jahoda’s sociocultural sensitivity to psychology, this article critically interrogates the plausibility for this … Continue reading
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How Culture shapes your Mind — and your mental illness
Culture shapes who we are, so it follows that it would also shape our manifestations of stress, mental disorder, emotion. Yet, that also implies a kind of messiness that modern psychology and psychiatry, particularly the American kind, have spent the … Continue reading
