Groepsidentificatie en cognitie: waarom triviale conventies belangrijker zijn dan we denken
| Autor: | Marc Slors |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject Center for Cognition Culture and Language (CCCL) Cognition General Medicine computer.software_genre Clothing Epistemology Etiquette Identification (information) Scripting language Multiculturalism Sociology Function (engineering) business Affordance computer media_common |
| Zdroj: | Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 113, 3, pp. 331-362 Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 113, 331-362 |
| ISSN: | 0002-5275 |
| Popis: | Group-identification and cognition: Why trivial conventions are more important than we think In existing (evolutionary) explanations for group formation and -identification, the function of cultural conventions such as social etiquette and dress codes is limited to providing group-markers. Group formation and identification itself is explained in terms of less arbitrary and more substantial phenomena such as shared norms and institutions. In this paper I will argue that, however trivial and arbitrary, cultural conventions fulfil an important cognitive function that makes them essential to the formation of and identification with large groups. Complex role-division, both informal and institutional, is important in the functioning of any large group of people. Shared conventions enable a virtually automatic understanding of signals, scripts and rules that regulate the interaction of divided roles. They provide a cultural infrastructure within which we perceive e.g. specific behavior and clothing as a range of social-cultural affordances for role-interactions. Shared familiarity with this infrastructure is the foundation for the basic kind of trust of in-group strangers that is a requirement for the formation of large groups. This non-intellectualist view on group formation and group identification can contribute to new ways of dealing with problems in multicultural societies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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