Prosocial Morality in Individual and Collective Cognition
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2016
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Maltseva, Kateryna
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Abstract
There has been much interest in understanding the operation of shared collective constructs.
Cultural models theory is one of the frameworks in cognitive anthropology
engaging the interaction between the individual and collective levels of culture in the
process of cultural transmission. The present study attempts to produce the cognitive
ethnography focusing on shared understanding of prosocial morality in Sweden.
It draws on cognitive data associated with the organization of prosocial ideas (formulated
as values) in Swedish society, and uses multi-item scales to explore the distribution
of this cultural model across the individual minds and on the group level.
The study tests a hypothesis that cultural and individual values priorities have distinct
demographic predictors when examined separately, and that these predictors reflect
their respective differences in the transmission channels. I stress the importance of the
interdisciplinary research to account for the process of consolidation of shared collective
knowledge into cultural models.
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cultural models theory, collective constructs, multi-item scales, prosocial morality, Sweden
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Maltseva Kateryna. Prosocial Morality in Individual and Collective Cognition [electronic resource] / Kateryna Maltseva // Journal of Cognition and Culture. - Електронні дані. - 2016. - Vol. 16, Issue 1-2. -P. 1-36. - Метод доступу: Інтернет. - doi: 10.1163/15685373-12342166 (переглянуто 20 червня 2017 р.). - Назва з екрана.