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REVIEW
Your research project on birth order and its effects on personality
REM:
- birth order = a cultural "universal"
- sex is a "universal": male / female / hermaphrodite
- gender is not a universal
- methods question: How do you deal with something that has a frequency occurrence rate of 0.018% = 18/100,000, including genotpic traits, and about 1/200,000-1/250,000 for phenotypic traits?
REM:
- structure
- function
- meaning
- emic
- etic
- synchronic
- diachronic
Also consider:
- "normal"
- "abnormal"
- "deviant"
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- freelist the variables you need to consider in your researchy
- formulate a hypothesis (expected relationship) for your research
- outline the research methods you would use in your study
| budget: |
$150,000 |
| duration: |
12 months |
| location: |
anywhere in the world |
- materials that might be helpful:
- Birth Order and Its Effects (18 min., 1997, DVD 191)
- Children's Magical Death (08 min., 1988, VC 1338)
- N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
- "Coming of Age: Margaret Mead" (52 min., 1990, VC 1755)
- Human Behavior in Global Perspective:
An Introduction to Cross-Culutural Psychology,
Second Edition
- Ch. 2. Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods
- A Conceptual Framework for Cross-Cultural Psychology
- The Social and Cultural Context: Basic Concepts
- Cross-Cultural Psychology's Paradigm: A Balanced Approach
- An Antecedent of the Eco-Cultural Framework: The Culture and Personality School
- Methodology in Cross-Cultural Research: Some Problems and Some Solutions
- Conclusion
- Ch. 3. Human Development and Informal Education
- Why Study Developmental Psychology Cross-Culturally?
- The Developmental Niche
- Informal Education
- Adolescence, Life Span, and Old Age
- Conclusion
- Ch. 8. Males and Females and the Relations between Them
- Why Study Sex and Gender Cross-Culturally?
- Psychological Differences between the Sexes
- Differing Socialization for Boys and Girls: Why and with What Consequences
- Gender Identity: Self-Perceptions of Men and Women across Cultures
- Sex Role Ideology: Culture and Male-Female Relationships
- A Sociocultural Theory of Human Sexuality
- Conclusion.
results
- freelisting: diachronic results
- Some theorize that significant events in one's life strongly influence personality formation
- From last time, Question: Do similar practices in different cultures produce similar psychological correlates?
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- Question for today: On the other hand how do different practices in different cultures produce "Culture-Bound Syndromes," which are unique psychological correlates?
[NOTE: The UMD Library copy of this video, VC 4651, from the University of Indiana has a false start at the beginning. The actual video starts a couple of minutes after the blank section which follows the false start.]
or
- video Clip: "Latah"
(8:25 min., 1978; orig. 38 min., 1978)
- (see Latah WebPage for film guide and study questions)
- Disease is universal
- Illness is culturally specific
- Continue to incubate on the Question: "How do Alterted States of Consciousness (ASCs) fit in?"
- REM: "Everyday Cognition" – perception . . . cognition . . . and . . . and. . . .
- (Total discussion includes Altered States of Consciousness [ASCs], ESP [including short video clip], dreaming, color . . . Anthropac. . . .
- we will have a closer look at ASCs Week 10 Day 19)
- Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE)
- Old Business
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In-Class Small Groups Project
In groups of 3-5
Design a research project on birth order and its effects on adult personality of males and females ...
and hermaphrodites.
(intersexuality = 0.018% = 18/100,000, but this can include genotpyical-only individuals; individuals with phenotypical M/F traits have been estimated at ca. 1/200,000-1/250,000 in the U.S.A.)
Kim Smyth Roufs, Jani Farrell-Roberts, Marjorie Blagburn
Bristol Harbour, England
The Seven Days of My Creation: Tales of Magic, Sex, and Gender, Jani Farrell-Roberts
- REM:
- birth order = a cultural "universal"
- sex is a "universal": male / female / hermaphrodite
- gender is not a universal
- methods question: How do you deal with something that has a frequency occurrence rate of 0.018% = 18/100,000, including genotpic traits, and about 1/200,000-1/250,000 for phenotypic traits?
- REM:
- structure
- function
- meaning
- emic
- etic
- synchronic
- diachronic
- Also consider:
- "normal"
- "abnormal"
- "deviant"
- freelist the variables you need to consider in your researchy
- formulate a hypothesis (expected relationship) for your research
- outline the research methods you would use in your study
| budget: |
$150,000 |
| duration: |
12 months |
| location: |
anywhere in the world |
Materials that might be helpful:
- Birth Order and Its Effects (18 min., 1997, DVD 191)
- Children's Magical Death (08 min., 1988, VC 1338)
- N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
- "Coming of Age: Margaret Mead" (52 min., 1990, VC 1755)
- Human Behavior in Global Perspective:
An Introduction to Cross-Culutural Psychology,
Second Edition
- Ch. 2. Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods
- A Conceptual Framework for Cross-Cultural Psychology
- The Social and Cultural Context: Basic Concepts
- Cross-Cultural Psychology's Paradigm: A Balanced Approach
- An Antecedent of the Eco-Cultural Framework: The Culture and Personality School
- Methodology in Cross-Cultural Research: Some Problems and Some Solutions
- Conclusion
- Ch. 3. Human Development and Informal Education
- Why Study Developmental Psychology Cross-Culturally?
- The Developmental Niche
- Informal Education
- Adolescence, Life Span, and Old Age
- Conclusion
- Ch. 8. Males and Females and the Relations between Them
- Why Study Sex and Gender Cross-Culturally?
- Psychological Differences between the Sexes
- Differing Socialization for Boys and Girls: Why and with What Consequences
- Gender Identity: Self-Perceptions of Men and Women across Cultures
- Sex Role Ideology: Culture and Male-Female Relationships
- A Sociocultural Theory of Human Sexuality
- Conclusion.
results |
- "Everyday Cognition" – perception . . . cognition . . . and . . . and . . .
(discussion continued)
- (Total discussion includes Altered States of Consciousness [ASCs], ESP [including short video clip], dreaming, color . . . Anthropac. . . .)
- Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE)
- Some theorize that significant events in one's life strongly influence personality formation
- Question: Do similar practices in different cultures produce similar psychological correlates?
- Main Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People in Culture and Personality Studies
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- Methods: Studying Perception . . . Cognition . . . and . . . Semantic Domains
- "Free Listing" -- write down as many colors as you can think of that are expressed as one word (e.g., "light blue" does not qualify, but "navy" does)
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Notes
- Monday 23 March 2009: Briefly reviewed "Major Schools and Approaches of Psychological Anthropology" (Bock 1982), (handout), and viewed Magical Death (29 min., 1988, VC 1338) Children's Magical Death
- Wednesday 25 March 2009: introduced and viewed N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
- Monday 30 March 2009: Review/Preview of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Hmong; viewed Latah: A Culture-specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex (38 min., 1990, VC 4651)
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