The Comparative Study of Cultures

The problems of individual and group adjustment are related to a cultural situation and therefore involve studies of cultures, of social organization and education, of the capacity and opportunity of the individual for adjustment, of the failures in adaptation, and of the changes in cultural situations which require continuous readjustment. As the social sciences become concerned with the problems of human behavior especially in its relation with problems of education, contacts of races and nationalities, crime and insanity, there is a renewed interest in the comparative examination of the specific cultural systems of racial and national groups and the behavior of individuals in special cultural situations. In this paper it is assumed (1) that the diversities in behavior are the result of different interpretations of experience rather than different levels in a uniform course of cultural evolution, (2) that the theories of difference in degrees of mental endowment among races and populations have not been sustained, and (3) that emphasis should be placed on the culture area rather than on the natural environment. The reaction of personalities to the cultural situation can best be approached in terms of the definition of the situation. On the social level these definitions are represented by moral and legal codes, political policies, organizations, and institutions. Culture epochs and mass conversions are inaugurated by the propaganda of definitions of the situations

Adaptation (eye) · Cultural group selection · Cultural system · Economics · Endowment · Ethnic group · Geography · Natural (archaeology) · Personality · Personality psychology · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Relation (database) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

• Subjective Constructions of Neighborhood Boundaries

  Elizabeth Campbell, Julia R Henly et al.•Journal of Urban Affairs•2009

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• Practicing Humanistic Geography

  Susan J Smith•Annals of the Association of…•1984

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• On the Origin of the Concept of “Deviant Subculture” in Criminology

  Reza Barmaki•Deviant Behavior•2016

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• A Scientific Concept of Culture

  Open Access•G M Wei, Gerald Wei et al.•American Anthropologist•1973

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• A 'Scientific Revolution

  Open Access•Henrika Kuklick•Sociological Inquiry•1973

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• Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory

  Mario Luis Small•American Journal of Sociology•2002

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