Symbolic production of social coherence
| Autor: | Arne Raeithel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Dialectic Social Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience Reproduction (economics) Theory of Forms Cognition Coherence (statistics) Language and Linguistics Education Epistemology Anthropology Developmental and Educational Psychology Natural (music) Social history Sociology Human communication |
| Zdroj: | Mind, Culture, and Activity. 1:69-88 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7884 1074-9039 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10749039409524657 |
| Popis: | This is a case study in historical empiry, makingan effort to tell a convincing story about the evolution of human communication and cognition. The story‐telling is guided by Holzkamp's (1983) five‐step‐rule for the explanation of a qualitative leap in evolution. Evidence is taken from archeological and anthropological sources to support the main thesis: The basic social role of communication is to reproduce the social coherence of communities, the habitual “styles of doing things” (Bourdieu). The complex cultural pattern of activites, with internal tensions and dialectical contradictions, continually changes during reproduction by the consecutive generations. It is shown how human natural and social history may be understood as expansion of the forms and means of social self‐regulation. Human use of mediational means could have developed in three stages: mimetic, discursive, and object‐symbolic communication develop out of each other in sequence as the dominant regulators of social coherence. In closing,... |
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