Case Studies in Cultural Control

John M. Roberts’s Four Southwestern Men

Bibliographic Data

ID7738612
AuthorsG Chick (0000-0001-9935-0032, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author), Liliana González (0000-0002-1760-5909, University of Rhode Island)
Year2005
Volume39
Issue3
Pages322-346
Publication date2005-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCross-Cultural Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1069-3971 • E-ISSN: 1552-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1069397104273990
OpenAlexW2086322210
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

During the summers of 1949, 1950, and 1951, John M. Roberts collected data on the levels of knowledge that a Zuni, a Navaho, a Mormon, and a Spanish American had of their own cultures. Specifically, Roberts asked the informants about their knowledge of the topics listed in the 1945 edition of the Outline of Cultural Materials and Gifford’s list of culture elements. He then developed a scale of cultural control of information that ranged from 1 (ignorance )to 5 (personal control ). We used Roberts’s scores for each of the four men for 18 areas of utilitarian cultural knowledge and 18 areas of expressive cultural knowledge to examine patterns in the informants’ knowledge of the two realms. Results indicate that the four men seemed to have better control of utilitarian than expressive topics

Cartography · Control (management · Cultural knowledge · Epistemology · Geography · Ignorance · Pedagogy · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Anthropology · Categorization, perception, and language · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology

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