The Evolution of Norms
... transmission, most notably by CavalliSforza and Feldman [14], and Boyd and Richerson [11]. Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman consider the interplay between heritable genetic change and cultural change. This is an important question, addressed to the longer time scale, with a view to understanding the genet ...
... transmission, most notably by CavalliSforza and Feldman [14], and Boyd and Richerson [11]. Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman consider the interplay between heritable genetic change and cultural change. This is an important question, addressed to the longer time scale, with a view to understanding the genet ...
Globalization of Knowledge (Forschungsperspektiven 2010+)
... The globalization of science in the sense of an exchange of systems of theoretical knowledge across the wider Mediterranean world, on the one side, and East Asia, on the other side, goes at least back to classical antiquity. Due to economic and political circumstances that exchange remained, however ...
... The globalization of science in the sense of an exchange of systems of theoretical knowledge across the wider Mediterranean world, on the one side, and East Asia, on the other side, goes at least back to classical antiquity. Due to economic and political circumstances that exchange remained, however ...
Class, community, and crisis in post
... of “the individual”, “the market”, “social mobility” and “choice” have failed a significant proportion of the working-class population. Moreover, it shows how well anthropology can capture the subtle and complex forms of collectivity through which people find meaning in times of change. Keywords: Br ...
... of “the individual”, “the market”, “social mobility” and “choice” have failed a significant proportion of the working-class population. Moreover, it shows how well anthropology can capture the subtle and complex forms of collectivity through which people find meaning in times of change. Keywords: Br ...
Global Interdependencies Examples
... well-known French artists such as Eugène Delacroix, Paul Cézanne and Émile Gallé, this course will investigate the network of artistic connections between the French and the foreign American, British, Turkish and Japanese artists, some of whom studied and worked in nineteenth-century Paris, such as ...
... well-known French artists such as Eugène Delacroix, Paul Cézanne and Émile Gallé, this course will investigate the network of artistic connections between the French and the foreign American, British, Turkish and Japanese artists, some of whom studied and worked in nineteenth-century Paris, such as ...
Cultures of Learning or Learning of Cultures
... determination’ (Penuel and Wertsch, 1995, p 84). Learning, in this view, is to be understood not as acquisition but as activity contributing to change and enrichment of the individual (Renshaw, 1992). However, as Bereiter (1994) notes, the neo-Vygotskyists ‘are not the first to have studied learning ...
... determination’ (Penuel and Wertsch, 1995, p 84). Learning, in this view, is to be understood not as acquisition but as activity contributing to change and enrichment of the individual (Renshaw, 1992). However, as Bereiter (1994) notes, the neo-Vygotskyists ‘are not the first to have studied learning ...
Postmodern Anth-the paper - Dallas Baptist University
... this radical perspective have judged modernism by its fruit and found it wanting, concluding that little or no aspect of this overall world view is to be trusted. Indeed, anything that proclaims to be the avenue to the good, the true, and the beautiful, but instead produces the likes of the twentiet ...
... this radical perspective have judged modernism by its fruit and found it wanting, concluding that little or no aspect of this overall world view is to be trusted. Indeed, anything that proclaims to be the avenue to the good, the true, and the beautiful, but instead produces the likes of the twentiet ...
xxvii conferenza italiana di scienze regionali
... therefore transmittable one. In order to be made shareable by the whole organisation, tacit knowledge must be made explicit; the main technique in order to enhance such a process consists in helping tacit knowledge being made explicit by means of a process consisting in socialization and externaliza ...
... therefore transmittable one. In order to be made shareable by the whole organisation, tacit knowledge must be made explicit; the main technique in order to enhance such a process consists in helping tacit knowledge being made explicit by means of a process consisting in socialization and externaliza ...
Microsoft Word - UWE Research Repository
... which focus exclusively on celebrity content (Audit Bureau of Circulation). While a stock feature of these magazines is the celebrity caught off-guard (smoking, drinking, taking drugs, being over or under-weight, having an ‘orange’ tan etc.) and hence susceptible to the same problems as us, these ma ...
... which focus exclusively on celebrity content (Audit Bureau of Circulation). While a stock feature of these magazines is the celebrity caught off-guard (smoking, drinking, taking drugs, being over or under-weight, having an ‘orange’ tan etc.) and hence susceptible to the same problems as us, these ma ...
105661_53 The Enlightenment Programme and Karl Popper
... them in also including the desire and active striving for what is of value, the ability to experience value, actually and potentially, in the circumstances of life, the capacity to help realize what is of value for oneself and others, the capacity to help solve those problems of living that need to ...
... them in also including the desire and active striving for what is of value, the ability to experience value, actually and potentially, in the circumstances of life, the capacity to help realize what is of value for oneself and others, the capacity to help solve those problems of living that need to ...
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
... This course is a simultaneous exploration of human sexuality from a biological and cultural perspective. In regard to the former, the focus will be on evolutionary and biosocial approaches; with the latter, the emphasis will be on historical and cultural dimensions. Numerous substantive issues will ...
... This course is a simultaneous exploration of human sexuality from a biological and cultural perspective. In regard to the former, the focus will be on evolutionary and biosocial approaches; with the latter, the emphasis will be on historical and cultural dimensions. Numerous substantive issues will ...
Johannes Andersen THE POLITICS OF DAILY LIFE
... based, first and foremost, on empirical circumstances and they are, to a great degree, the result of the computer’s capacity to classify data into a variety of clusters. What we have here are not theoreticall_y based typologies and, for an investigation in the social sciences, this is a very serious ...
... based, first and foremost, on empirical circumstances and they are, to a great degree, the result of the computer’s capacity to classify data into a variety of clusters. What we have here are not theoreticall_y based typologies and, for an investigation in the social sciences, this is a very serious ...
Power Point Notes
... Transcultural nursing focuses on the study and analysis of different cultures and subcultures with respect to cultural care, health beliefs, and practices. The goal is to provide care within the context of the client’s culture. Copyright 2002 by Delmar, a division of Thomson Learning ...
... Transcultural nursing focuses on the study and analysis of different cultures and subcultures with respect to cultural care, health beliefs, and practices. The goal is to provide care within the context of the client’s culture. Copyright 2002 by Delmar, a division of Thomson Learning ...
empirical and realistic approaches of research
... proposition is meaningful if and only if it can be empirically verified or if and only if there exists an empirical method or evidence for deciding the truthness and falseness (Brown, 1977). Ayer (1946) formulated the notion of ‘weak verifiability’, which asserts that a sentence has an empirical mea ...
... proposition is meaningful if and only if it can be empirically verified or if and only if there exists an empirical method or evidence for deciding the truthness and falseness (Brown, 1977). Ayer (1946) formulated the notion of ‘weak verifiability’, which asserts that a sentence has an empirical mea ...
Interpretivism in Aiding Our Understanding of the Contemporary
... the fact that, if there are (and there must be) hidden patters, underlying rule formations, which govern the observed parts of reality, and whose exploration can contribute to explaining these observed parts, then this should also be a legitimate area of social research. It is because of these limit ...
... the fact that, if there are (and there must be) hidden patters, underlying rule formations, which govern the observed parts of reality, and whose exploration can contribute to explaining these observed parts, then this should also be a legitimate area of social research. It is because of these limit ...
Wisdom: Object of Study or Basic Aim of Inquiry
... living in increasingly cooperatively rational ways. Again, the problem is not too much reason, but not enough. Scientific rationality, so-called, is actually a species of damaging irrationality masquerading as rationality. Academic inquiry as it mostly exists at present, devoted to the growth of kno ...
... living in increasingly cooperatively rational ways. Again, the problem is not too much reason, but not enough. Scientific rationality, so-called, is actually a species of damaging irrationality masquerading as rationality. Academic inquiry as it mostly exists at present, devoted to the growth of kno ...
Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network
... behavior toward desired goals... [network analysts] treat norms as effects of structural location, not causes.”(italics added) Gould (2003:258) perceptively notes that “network analysts have something in common…with materialists who see people as servants of historical forces that they did not thems ...
... behavior toward desired goals... [network analysts] treat norms as effects of structural location, not causes.”(italics added) Gould (2003:258) perceptively notes that “network analysts have something in common…with materialists who see people as servants of historical forces that they did not thems ...
Psychological Science in Cultural Context
... For a long period, psychology taught in the Indian universities was pure western psychology and attempts were made to safeguard it from the contaminating effects of Indian culture and thought. Its teaching maintained a strong universalistic stance. The research studied largely focused on testing the ...
... For a long period, psychology taught in the Indian universities was pure western psychology and attempts were made to safeguard it from the contaminating effects of Indian culture and thought. Its teaching maintained a strong universalistic stance. The research studied largely focused on testing the ...
5 - PhilPapers
... responsible for the development of our current global problems, and our current inability to tackle these problems intelligently, effectively and humanely. Modern science and technological research have, of course, produced immense benefits. They have made the modern world possible. But science and ...
... responsible for the development of our current global problems, and our current inability to tackle these problems intelligently, effectively and humanely. Modern science and technological research have, of course, produced immense benefits. They have made the modern world possible. But science and ...
Cultures of Learning or Learning of Cultures
... A range of conceptual tools are on offer to help us investigate the social world within this theory of practice, which also claims to be a theory-as-method. They include habitus and field: the former, a durable but transposable set of dispositions, representing the physical and mental embodiment of ...
... A range of conceptual tools are on offer to help us investigate the social world within this theory of practice, which also claims to be a theory-as-method. They include habitus and field: the former, a durable but transposable set of dispositions, representing the physical and mental embodiment of ...
RTF version - Graduate School of Education
... generative schemes which operate by orienting social practice. This, in a nutshell, is Bourdieu’s theory of practice. Practice, the dynamic of which is probably better captured by the word praxis, is a cognitive operation; it is structured and tends to reproduce structures of which it is a product. ...
... generative schemes which operate by orienting social practice. This, in a nutshell, is Bourdieu’s theory of practice. Practice, the dynamic of which is probably better captured by the word praxis, is a cognitive operation; it is structured and tends to reproduce structures of which it is a product. ...
Cultures of Learning or Learning of Cultures
... generative schemes which operate by orienting social practice. This, in a nutshell, is Bourdieu’s theory of practice. Practice, the dynamic of which is probably better captured by the word praxis, is a cognitive operation; it is structured and tends to reproduce structures of which it is a product. ...
... generative schemes which operate by orienting social practice. This, in a nutshell, is Bourdieu’s theory of practice. Practice, the dynamic of which is probably better captured by the word praxis, is a cognitive operation; it is structured and tends to reproduce structures of which it is a product. ...
anthropology - California State University, Bakersfield
... throughout time that is firmly grounded in the natural sciences. The central concern of Anthropological inquiry is to understand human biological and behavioral diversity, as well as the processes by which that diversity has evolved across time and space. The core of the anthropological perspective ...
... throughout time that is firmly grounded in the natural sciences. The central concern of Anthropological inquiry is to understand human biological and behavioral diversity, as well as the processes by which that diversity has evolved across time and space. The core of the anthropological perspective ...
8TH EDITION Chapter 1 Intercultural Communication: Interaction in
... between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems differ enough to alter the communication event • Dominant culture . A dominant group is characteristic of all cultures, and this collective of people possesses those instruments of power that allow it to set the broad societal agenda the m ...
... between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems differ enough to alter the communication event • Dominant culture . A dominant group is characteristic of all cultures, and this collective of people possesses those instruments of power that allow it to set the broad societal agenda the m ...
Media Anthropology: An Overview
... discipline, other researchers have launched various labels to name an anthropological approach of mass media: media anthropology, anthropology of media, anthropology of mass media, mass communication anthropology, anthropology of culture and media. Each of these implies a difference in the design of ...
... discipline, other researchers have launched various labels to name an anthropological approach of mass media: media anthropology, anthropology of media, anthropology of mass media, mass communication anthropology, anthropology of culture and media. Each of these implies a difference in the design of ...