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Cross‐Cultural Inquiry: Some Assumptions
Author(s) -
Casteel J. Doyle,
Hallman Clemens L.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1975.tb01565.x
Subject(s) - heuristics , civilization , sociology , cross cultural , space (punctuation) , focus (optics) , function (biology) , epistemology , social science , linguistics , geography , anthropology , mathematics , archaeology , philosophy , mathematical optimization , physics , evolutionary biology , optics , biology
Assumptions tend to shape in‐struction. Nine assumptions concerning the study of cultures are presented in this article. The authors have presented a limited number of examples from Latin America to illustrate the propositions. These are: critical incidents; time; cultural heuristics; historical constraints; concepts of social stratification, conflict, change, and justice; subsuming elements of a culture; cross‐cultural elements; space; and social structure and function. The focus is on day‐to‐day cultural and cross‐cultural patterns vis‐a‐vis historical culture and civilization.