Culture Acquisition: A Holistic Approach to Human Learning

by Mary Anne Pitman, Rivka A. Eisikovits, Marion Lundy Dobbert, et al.

Challenging traditional orientations to the study of education and culture acquisition, the authors of this controversial work present a holistic, process-oriented method for examining culture transmission. A biologically based materialistic theory, cultural transmission is defined as a process in which individuals come to store pattern information in their brains . . . and hence come to act in socially complementary ways, thereby contributing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275930319
• ISBN13: 9780275930318
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"