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- The term “anthropologically strange” refers to the practice of examining familiar situations, behaviors, or cultural practices as if they are completely unfamiliar or alien. This approach involves adopting an outsider’s perspective to gain fresh insights and a deeper understanding of everyday phenomena that might otherwise be taken for granted.
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Jul 23, 2021 · The cultural anthropologist’s goal during fieldwork is to describe a group of people to others in a way that makes strange or unusual features of the culture seem familiar and familiar traits seem extraordinary.
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beliefs, cognition, culture, meaning, norms, pragmatics, schema, values
I present a brief review of problems in the sociological study of culture, followed by an integrated, interdisciplinary view of culture that eschews extreme contextualism and other orthodoxies. Culture is defined as the conjugate product of two reciprocal, componential processes. The first is a dynamically stable process of collectively made, repro...
(symbolically shared schemata) O.C. and other network flows
use, production, reproduction, transmission Configurations Practical cultural knowledge
Figure 1 (top) Norms and values are, respectively, the weighted prescriptive and affective dimensions of declarative and procedural cultural knowledge structures and practices. They mediate and stabilize the effects of their activation, though imperfectly, allowing some pragmatic changes to filter through. They are themselves changed over time by t...
In this review, I have tried to make sense of culture through an integrated and interdisci-plinary approach that avoids the conventional orthodoxies, one-sided agendas, and intel-lectually paralyzing post-whatnot fads of recent decades that have bedeviled the subject. Culture emerges as a dynamically stable process from the complex interactions of ...
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I thank Professors Steven Pinker and Lo ̈ıc Wacquant for valuable comments on earlier drafts of this paper. All errors in the present version are entirely my own.
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May 10, 2024 · The term “anthropologically strange” refers to the practice of examining familiar situations, behaviors, or cultural practices as if they are completely unfamiliar or alien. This approach involves adopting an outsider’s perspective to gain fresh insights and a deeper understanding of everyday phenomena that might otherwise be taken for granted.
May 18, 2022 · In this article, the author addresses the mechanisms of the acculturation of people who move across different cultural communities (immigrants, refugees, sojourners, international students, etc.). It starts by analyzing Alfred Schutz’s essay ‘Stranger’ and then connects it to the theory of sociocultural models (TSCM) (Chirkov, 2020a).
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Nov 30, 2020 · Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to ‘make the familiar strange’, and how this approach benefits sociological research and theory, it draws on four central concepts: reification, familiarity, strangeness, and defamiliarization.
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Culture refers to the symbols, language, beliefs, values, and artifacts that are part of any society. Because culture influences people’s beliefs and behaviors, culture is a key concept to the sociological perspective.
Dec 3, 2020 · Contemporary cultural sociology specifies the concept of culture by developing three core, irreducible, but compatible, theoretical elements: action, discourse, and cultural production.
