Cultural models: genesis, methods, and experiences

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knyga / Book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Cultural models: genesis, methods, and experiences
Authors:
Publication Data:
New York [N.Y.] : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Pages:
ix, 325 p
Contents:
Acknowledgments — List of figures and tables — Introduction — The development of cultural theory as pertinent to a cultural models approach — Structure and culture in mind: genesis of cultural models — Methodology in research about cultural models — North American cultural models — European cultural models — Native-American and Latino-American cultural models — Asian and Pacific cultural models — African cultural models — Applied research on cultural models — Typology, future research, and conclusion — References — Index.
Subject Category:
LT
Kultūra / Culture.
Summary / Abstract:

ENThis book investigates how and why the mind deploys models to classify cultural experience. Offering vital insight into brain function and human behavior, Bennardo and de Munck map the history of cultural models and provide a typology of those used by human populations around the globe. Through a unique cognitive approach, the authors treat cultural models as mental constructs that bridge two distinct cultural provinces: the isolated experience of culture from the mind's perspective, and the collective experience of culture as a feature of human society. Early chapters trace the general concept from Kant to contemporary scholars, noting the ways cultural models have evolved across disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Later chapters lay out a detailed methodology that blends qualitative and quantitative techniques, building towards an analysis of survey data about cultural models in populations of North Americans, Europeans, Latino- and Native-Americans, Asians (including South Asians and South-East Asians), Pacific Islanders, and Africans. The increasing use of cultural models in applied research is also surveyed. The authors then propose an empirically motivated typology rooted in the differences between foundational and molar types of models. The book closes with suggestions about how our understanding of cultural models may develop in the future, giving new and incisive perspectives to researchers in a broad range of fields.

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9780199908042
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