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ID110555
Title ProperRethinking culture
Other Title Informationthe social Lineage account
LanguageENG
AuthorPatten, Alan
Publication2011.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Persuaded by the critique of cultural essentialism, many critics believe that there is no defensible way of identifying distinct cultures, or of distinguishing cultural loss from cultural change, that is compatible with the normative agenda of multiculturalism. This article challenges this widely shared belief by developing a concept of culture that can withstand the critique of essentialism and support the positive claims of multiculturalists. Culture, in the view developed here, is what people share when they have shared subjection to a common formative context. A division of the world, or of particular societies, into distinct cultures is a recognition that distinct processes of socialization operate on different groups of people. Because culture in this view is the precipitate of a common social lineage, the view is called the "social lineage account" of culture.
`In' analytical NoteAmerican Political Science Review Vol. 105, No. 4; Nov 2011: p.735-749
Journal SourceAmerican Political Science Review Vol. 105, No. 4; Nov 2011: p.735-749
Key WordsRethinking Culture ;  Social Lineage Account ;  Cultural Essentialism ;  Multiculturalism ;  Processes of Socialization