The Symbol
The Origin and Basis of Human Behavior
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10708060 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie A White (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1940 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 451-463 |
| Publication date | 1940-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/286655 |
| OpenAlex | W2081279926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
In July, 1939, a celebration was held at Leland Stanford University to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the discovery that the cell is the basic unit of all living tissue. Today we are beginning to realize and to appreciate the fact that the symbol is the basic unit of all human behavior and civilization
Archaeology · Arithmetic · Basis (linear algebra) · Civilization · Epistemology · Hundredth · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Symbol (formal) · Unit (ring theory) · History · Mathematics · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function · Philosophy · Psychology
The Identity Construction Through Music Notation of The Indigenous Style of Gitar Tunggal Lampung Pesisir
Sociology and Psychoanalysis
Frederick Engels and Leslie White
Is a cultural ethology possible
Material Symbols and the Interpretation of Cultural Change
Toward a Sociology of Language
The Mind of Primitive Anthropologists
Language, Communication, Chimpanzees
Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
Selfishness examined
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in Norway
A Literary Interpretation of Blood Symbolism in Ifá Divination Poetry
School Living
Ritual and Social Change
Creative Approach to Shaping the Symbolic System of Global Culture
Symbolic Consensus in a Fang Reformative Cult1
Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Palaeolithic
Symbolic Culture
Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Space and Place
The essentials of symbolic interactionism
Peirce and the Founding of American Sociology
Introduction to ‘Theoretical Pathways’
The importance of looking at the border from a young person's perspective
‘Behavioral modernity’ as a process, not an event, in the human niche
The ripples of modernity
Growing Appetites and Hungry Subjects
Behavioural modernity, investigative disintegration & Rubicon expectation
Symbolic Interactionism and Psychoanalysis
The Superorganic Fringe. Protoculture, Indioculture, and Material Culture
The Paradoxical Anthropology of Leslie White
Personality Structure and the Evolution of Man
The Definition and Prohibition of Incest
Myth, Culture and Personality
Objects Don't Have Desires
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
| Citation span | 1947 - 2023 (77) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |