POST-INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION AND CULTURAL UNIVERSALS: HISTORICAL CONTEXT

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Looking across human societies reveals regularities in the languages that people speak and the concepts that they use. One explanation that has been proposed for these “cultural universals” is differences in the ease with which people learn particular languages and concepts. A difference in learnability means that languages and concepts possessing a particular property are more likely to be acc...

History and Human Nature: Cross-cultural Universals and Cultural Relativities

Evidence Based Medicine in Cultural and Historical Context

*To whom correspondence should be addressed: Julian Z. Xue McGill University, Department of Biology, Montreal, Canada, H3A 1B1 Email: [email protected] This is progress in all senses: they managed to reduce an immense cognitive dissonance within our society, a dissonance that leads laypeople to scratch their heads and ask: “...and what were they doing before that?” Since then, EBM has...

Identity as adaptation to social, cultural, and historical context

Adaptation may be the best way to conceptualize the complex, multilateral relationship between individual identity and sociocultural context, because it recognizes the causal importance of culture yet also recognizes individual choice and change. This argument is developed by considering how several historical changes in the sociocultural context (i.e. increasing freedom of choice, changed inte...

Using cultural-historical activity to study clinical reasoning in context

The aim of this paper is to describe sources of conflict and congruence in critical areas of practice with caregivers of persons with dementia, using cultural-historical activity theory as an analytic framework. Findings are drawn from an ethnographic study that described the context of occupational therapists’ (OT’s) clinical reasoning in a funded, home-based environmental skillbuilding progra...