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What is the central concept of Durkheim's approach to the understanding of culture?
The concept of collective representations
What is the concept of collective representations according to Durkheim?
The cultural beliefs, moral values, symbols, and ideas shared by any human group
What is the concept of 'representations' according to Durkheim's approach?
The cultural beliefs, moral values, symbols, and ideas shared by any human group.
What is the significance of cultural representations, according to Durkheim's approach?
They create a symbolic world of meanings within which a cultural group lives
What is the issue with judging the truth or falsehood of different cultural worlds according to Durkheim's approach?
It only tells us what we find acceptable and congruent within our own cultural framework
What does Durkheim's approach to culture avoid?
The question of how we, from our western cultural background, would judge which of a set of beliefs and ideas are 'true' or 'false'.
What is the relationship between individual production of values, beliefs, and symbol systems and cultural group membership?
Individuals who produce their own values, beliefs, and symbol systems are frequently ostracized by others, treated with hostility, regarded as mad, or tolerated as interesting eccentrics
What is the relationship between individuals and cultural values, beliefs, and symbols according to Durkheim's approach?
Individuals do not produce their own values, beliefs, and symbol systems, but rather learn them through socialization.
How are cultural values, beliefs, and symbols produced and shared collectively by a group?
They are learned through socialization
Study Notes
"Test your knowledge of European Travel Reports on Other Cultures - From Asia to the Americas! Explore the emotional and moral responses of European travellers during the 18th and 19th centuries through descriptive accounts of other peoples' ways of life. This quiz will take you on a journey through the eyes of tradesmen and missionaries, and challenge your understanding of historical cross-cultural encounters. Keywords: European travel reports, other cultures, Asia, Africa, Americas, Australasia, descriptive accounts, emotional responses,
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