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    Cognitive anthropology is a qualitative research tradition developed by Goodenough and Frake that studies how culture organizes and structures perceptions of the world. It focuses on identifying the categories and relationships that structure a culture's cognitive system through analyzing language use. Researchers describe a culture's cognitive organization without making claims about human nature, and compare individual cultural models rather than generalizing across cultures. The methodology involves descriptive questions and formal analysis of cultural domains, taxonomies, components and themes. Applications in education have described school cultures and studied problems like the reading process.

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    Cognitive anthropology is a qualitative research tradition developed by Goodenough and Frake that studies how culture organizes and structures perceptions of the world. It focuses on identifying the categories and relationships that structure a culture's cognitive system through analyzing language use. Researchers describe a culture's cognitive organization without making claims about human nature, and compare individual cultural models rather than generalizing across cultures. The methodology involves descriptive questions and formal analysis of cultural domains, taxonomies, components and themes. Applications in education have described school cultures and studied problems like the reading process.

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    Cognitive Anthropology

    A Qualitative Research Tradition

    Qualitative Research Traditions


    Characterized

    by:

    assumptions about human nature and society focus of the study methodology
    Jacob, E. (1987). Qualitative Research Traditions: A Review, Review of Educational Research, 57(1), 1-50.

    Example Traditions
    Ecological

    Psychology Holistic Ethnography Ethnography of Communication Symbolic Interactionism Cognitive Anthropology


    Ethnoscience New Ethnography

    Cognitive Anthropology
    Developed

    by Goodenough and Frake

    Based heavily on linguistics


    Study

    culture

    Mentalistic Terms
    Cultural categories Organizing principles

    Assumptions

    Culture
    Cognitive organizations of material phenomena

    Groups have unique system for perceiving and organizing the world Cultural knowledge reflected in language

    Semantics Organized Related

    Implications
    Do

    not study behavior

    Linguistics

    Relationships between words

    Focus
    Description

    of organization of cognitive system 2 questions:


    What material phenomena are significant for the people of some culture? How do they organize these phenomena?

    Implications
    Compare

    individual culture

    Then compare across cultures


    Focus

    on Organizing principles

    Not on substantive aspects


    No

    theory testing

    Methodology
    Description

    using participants

    categories
    Cyclical
    Identify

    symbols and relationships

    Hypothesis

    testing

    More Methodology
    Recording
    Natural

    verbatim

    settings descriptive questions

    Open-ended, Controlled Formal

    eliciting

    analysis

    Formal Analysis
    Internal consistency Completeness Form Types:

    domain analysis taxonomic analysis componential analysis theme analysis

    Applications
    Mentalistic

    culture Few done in educational settings Two types:


    Description of culture Study of educational problems

    Description of Culture

    Study of school settings


    Sex Role culture w/in school

    Teachers images of knowledge


    Behavior b/w teachers and students

    Categories of play b/w boys at recess

    Study of Educational Problems


    Reading
    College

    process
    students career choices relations in school

    Social-race

    Disclaimers
    Source

    Paper

    Presenter
    Qualitative

    applications

    whole or part?

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