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“The processes that determine whether a transmission event of a cultural form has occurred are much more akin to the social construction processes that sociologists have long identified as limitations of a strictly biological view of the human mind (Burr 2015).”
From Cultural Evolution of Religion, Spirituality and Ritual: Impacts On Human Cooperation (2024) · cites this paper as Burr 2015
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Metadata
- Authors
- Burr, V.
- Venue
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 222-227
- OpenAlex
- W4255189221
- Cited by
- 425
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 61 · 2020: 35 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 35 · 2017: 46 · 2016: 41 · 2015: 22
- Type
- reference entry
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Elsevier eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Huddersfield Research Portal (University of Huddersfield) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Representations and Identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Education, Politics, and Culture Studies
- Keywords
- social constructionism, critique of mainstream psychology, language and social construction, discourse analysis
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