书名: The Psychological Foundations of Culture
作者: Mark Schaller (Editor), Christian S. Crandall (Editor)
出版社: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (August 1, 2003)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0805838406
ISBN-13: 978-0805838404
Book Description
How is it that cultures come into existence at all? How do cultures develop particular customs and characteristics rather than others? How do cultures persist and change over time? The purpose of this book is to provide answers to the emergence and continuing evolution of cultures past, present, and future. The authors show how questions about the origins and evolution of culture can be fruitfully answered through rigorous and creative examination of fundamental characteristics of human cognition, motivation, and social interaction. They review recent theory and research that, in many different ways, points to the influence of basic psychological processes on the collective structures that define cultures. These processes operate in all sorts of different populations, ranging from very small interacting groups to grand-scale masses of people occupying the same demographic or geographic category. The cultural effects - often unintended - of individuals' thoughts and actions are demonstrated in a wide variety of customs, ritualized practices, and shared mythologies.
This work reveals that the consequences of psychological processes resonate well beyond the disciplinary constraints of psychology. By taking a psychological approach to questions usually addressed by anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists, it suggests that psychological research into the foundations of culture is a useful - perhaps even necessary - complement to other forms of inquiry.
Review
"Why do beliefs spread? traditions persist? customs survive? This collection proposes clever and thoughtful answers and it should inspire lively discussion as sociologists, anthropologists, and organizational scholars welcome their psychologist colleagues to the ongoing debate about culture." — Chip Heath, Ph.D., Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
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作者: Mark Schaller (Editor), Christian S. Crandall (Editor)
出版社: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (August 1, 2003)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0805838406
ISBN-13: 978-0805838404
Book Description
How is it that cultures come into existence at all? How do cultures develop particular customs and characteristics rather than others? How do cultures persist and change over time? The purpose of this book is to provide answers to the emergence and continuing evolution of cultures past, present, and future. The authors show how questions about the origins and evolution of culture can be fruitfully answered through rigorous and creative examination of fundamental characteristics of human cognition, motivation, and social interaction. They review recent theory and research that, in many different ways, points to the influence of basic psychological processes on the collective structures that define cultures. These processes operate in all sorts of different populations, ranging from very small interacting groups to grand-scale masses of people occupying the same demographic or geographic category. The cultural effects - often unintended - of individuals' thoughts and actions are demonstrated in a wide variety of customs, ritualized practices, and shared mythologies.
This work reveals that the consequences of psychological processes resonate well beyond the disciplinary constraints of psychology. By taking a psychological approach to questions usually addressed by anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists, it suggests that psychological research into the foundations of culture is a useful - perhaps even necessary - complement to other forms of inquiry.
Review
"Why do beliefs spread? traditions persist? customs survive? This collection proposes clever and thoughtful answers and it should inspire lively discussion as sociologists, anthropologists, and organizational scholars welcome their psychologist colleagues to the ongoing debate about culture." — Chip Heath, Ph.D., Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
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