The Psychological Foundations of Culture.

The Psychological Foundations of Culture.

How do cultures come into existence? Why do they 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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schaller, Mark, 1962-
Other Authors: Crandall, Christian S., 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
Subjects:
Social change > Psychological aspects.
Culture > Origin > Psychological aspects.
Ethnopsychology.
ethnopsychology.
Ethnopsychology
Social change > Psychological aspects
Kulturpsychologie
Ethnopsychologie
Soziokultureller Wandel
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contributors; Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 The Psychological Foundations of Culture: An Introduction; PART I HOW CULTURES EMERGE AT ALL; CHAPTER 2 Human Awareness of Mortality and the Evolution of Culture; CHAPTER 3 Cultural Elements Emerge From Dynamic Social Impact; CHAPTER 4 Language, Cognition, and Reality: Constructing Shared Meanings Through Communication; CHAPTER 5 Motivated Closed Mindedness and the Emergence of Culture; PART II HOW SPECIFIC CULTURAL NORMS ARISE; CHAPTER 6 Biological Foundations of Moral Norms.
  • CHAPTER 7 Cognitive and Emotional Processes in the Cultural Transmission of Natural and Nonnatural BeliefsCHAPTER 8 Self-Organizing Culture: How Norms Emerge in Small Groups; CHAPTER 9 Scientists and Science: How Individual Goals Shape Collective Norms; PART III HOW CULTURES PERSIST AND CHANGE OVER TIME; CHAPTER 10 The Microgenesis of Culture: Serial Reproduction as an Experimental Simulation of Cultural Dynamics; CHAPTER 11 Sustaining Cultural Beliefs.

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