this chief aim of this paper is to explore the concept of funds of knowledge (fok) in relation to cultural historical activity theory (chat). this study unveils the basic tenets of fok from the lens of activity theory and analyzes pertinent discoveries, key concepts, and scholars’ arguments relating to fok and literacy development over time. the major purpose of this study is to expand the pers...

This paper attempts to review examples of the use of storytelling and narrative in immersive virtual reality worlds. Particular attention is given to the way narrative is incorporated in artistic, cultural, and educational applications through the development of specific sensory and perceptual experiences that are based on characteristics inherent to virtual reality, such as immersion, interact...

The article provides a critical assessment of the more recent literature that relies on theoretical frameworks such as post modernism and globalization to deal with national identity, ethnicity and cultural mobility. Explaining sensitive and complicated issues such as identity requires the extensive use of the native historical, cultural and sociological sources related to the Iranian experienc...

A fundamental issue in understanding human diversity is whether or not there are regular patterns and processes involved in cultural change. Theoretical and mathematical models of cultural evolution have been developed and are increasingly being used and assessed in empirical analyses. Here, we test the hypothesis that the rates of change of features of human socio-cultural organization are gov...

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Information of the cultural heritage, especially cultural relics, historical architectures and memorial sites, firstly represents their location and time, and then are their cultural or historical attributes and meanings. Moreover, environment and planning also are important information for the protection of urban cultural heritage. Therefore, a lot of the spatial data and related attributes ar...

The integration of cognitive neuroscience with the study of culture emerged from independent ascensions among both fields in the early 1990s. This marriage of the two previously unconnected areas of inquiry has generated a variety of empirical and theoretical works that have provided unique insights to both partners that might have otherwise gone overlooked. Here, I provide a brief historical i...

The problem of cultural-historical typology is one of the most intriguing issues at the crossroads of psychology and cultural theory. This paper presents a preliminary sketch of the fourlevel-cognitive-development theory to look at this issue from a new perspective. According to the model suggested, three cultural types are marked out: prehistoric and hunter-gatherer culture, early theoretical ...

This paper argues that our sociological explanations of the historical advent of gender stratification in the Occident has given too much attention to techno-economic causes and too little attention to religious, cultural and ideological causes. Evidence for this claim is taken from archeology, mythology and anthropology for the relevant historical period (4500 and 3000 BC) in Eurasia. I assert...