A Manual for Cultural Analysis

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Precedent Phenomena As Symbols Of Cultural Identity In Ya Fiction

“…The research is grounded on the idea which is very close to the one expressed by Luke Matthews et al (2018). The thought is that any lingua-cultural community can be viewed as a single entity, members of which due to 'similar life experience' and language practice experience have identical or close to identical understanding of some spheres of human life.…”

“…The thought is that any lingua-cultural community can be viewed as a single entity, members of which due to 'similar life experience' and language practice experience have identical or close to identical understanding of some spheres of human life. However, inside this linguistic and social fabric there are various groups whose outlooks may deviate in various degrees from predominantly accepted (Matthews et al, 2018). Though teenagers can be viewed as a homogeneous social layer, within it there are different patterns of cognition, behavior and language use, which are linked to identity acquisition that develops in the frame of differentiation between self and others (Ragelienė, 2016).…”

Individual Differences in Resistance to Truth Decay: Exploring the Role of Reasoning and Cognitive Biases

“…In this third approach, we instead considered whether individuals deviated from the "consensus truth" about these items, defined as multivariate agreement on the items across all respondents. This culturally relative notion is based on the conception that truth is a body of agreed beliefs that are shared by a society (Romney, Batchelder, and Weller, 1987;Romney, Weller, and Batchelder, 1986;Weller, 2007;Matthews, Brown, and Kennedy, 2018). Anthropologists working in cross-cultural settings developed cultural consensus analysis (CCA) as a robust method for measuring each individual's relative agreement with the central tendency across all individuals and across all survey items.…”