Culture acquisition : a holistic approach to human learning
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Culture acquisition : a holistic approach to human learning
Praeger, 1989
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Bibliography: p. [213]-229
Includes index
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内容説明
Challenging traditional orientations to the study of education and culture acquisition, the authors of this controversial work present a holistic, process-oriented method for examining culture transmission. A biologically based materialistic theory, cultural transmission is defined as a process in which individuals come to store pattern information in their brains . . . and hence come to act in socially complementary ways, thereby contributing to a culture's evolving adaptive pattern mappings. Their work defines the biological parameters of culture learning, reviews previous research on cultural transmission, conceptualizes, operationalizes, and tests a holistic, context-specific approach to learning culture and then illustrates its use. Dividing their work into two parts the authors first review the literature which is essential to the definition of a solidly grounded holism and to the development of an integrated theory. They then devote the second part of their work to the proposal of their systems based theory which describes the method by which 'active' learners come to see the whole of their culture. Their model is then operationalized by laying out a field research method and testing that method in a pilot study of three societies. Advanced students and scholars of anthropology as well as qualitative educational researchers will find Culture Acquisition invaluable reading.
Reflecting the truly collaborative nature of the authors' work, this book has an overall additive structure. Chapters one through four review primate learning, examine neurological data and information processing in humans, review developmental theory and research on aging, and identify critical junctures in the study of cultural transmission. Chapters five through eight pose the theoretical model, present a field guide based on a broadly holistic approach, describe a test of the method, report on three analytic experiments exploring the potential of the model, and devise a coding system for comparative culture acquisition research. In their final chapters the authors illustrate the extent to which their theory can be applied by individual anthropologists to their own areas of research.
目次
Foreword Introduction: Learning Culture Primate Biology and Learning Developmental, Neurological and Information Processing Research: Applications to Culture Acquisition Culture Acquisition as a Lifelong Process: perspectives from the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Cultural Transmission: A Review of Existing Theory and Method Operationalizing a Holistic Approach to Culture Acquisition A Pilot Study of Culture Acquisition in Three Societies: Testing the Method Discovery of Patterns in Culture Acquisition Research: Developing Coding Systems Cultural Transmission and Culture Acquisition in a Korean Village: The Systems Model in Ethnographic Terms Becoming a Social Worker: Applying the Holistic Culture Concept to a Professional Context Bibliography Index
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