ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cultural Diversity, Multidimensional Scaling, Time Perception
27 Oct 2020
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Task 2 perspectives on culture and concepts summary. Changing concepts of culture are feeding back to affect not only how culture is studied, but also how we understand concepts recruited in such studies. Debate about how culture should be conceptualized. Concepts can take many forms and functions defined in various ways. Including ways that influence roles for culture and culture"s definition. One influential view holds that concepts are units of thought" that form building blocks of domain-specific folk theories. On this account: culture can be seen as input to domain-specific cognitive systems that structure learning. Other approaches take more relational perspective on concepts, both with respect to how cultural systems (e. g. language, artifacts, values) affect conceptual organization and with respect to how concepts permeate cultural behavior. From this perspective: culture and concepts are mutually constitutive processes rather than separate variables, leading to more interactive view than framework of cultural input and mental output suggests.
