Envisioning Cultural Practices

Envisioning the future of cultural neuroscience

In the present commentary, we first examine the three target articles included in the Asian Journal of Social Psychology special issue on cultural neuroscience. We spell out the contributions that the articles have offered to the field. We extend this examination with our own theoretical model of neuro-culture interaction, which proposes that brain connectivity changes as a function of each per...

Cross-cultural epistemic practices

should provide a framework for the effective investigation of the entire complex problem of the intellectual processes of society—a study by which society as a whole seeks a perceptive relation to its total environment. It should lift the study of intellectual life from that of a scrutiny of the individual to an inquiry into the means by which a society, nation, or culture achieves understandin...

Re-envisioning the business of information: Policies, practices and procedures

KENNEALLY: The future, said the science fiction author William Gibson, is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed. And Gibson also said that the problem with the future is you can’t Google it. Now, we’ve all seen the Google Glass, but you can’t Google the future, although I did try to do that this morning. On my Google, the first result page was the bio for a rapper named Future. (laught...

Verbal Behavior and Cultural Practices

Three kinds of selection are reviewed with primary focus on the relations between behavioral and cultural contingencies. Operant behavior is briefly examined with regard to cultural materialist theory. The functions of verbal behavior in infrastructural and superstructural practices are suggested. Discrepancies between rules promulgated in the superstructure and the requirements of the infrastr...

Suggested Cultural Practices for Eggplant