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Friday 5 March 2010

Natural Science Of Society And Culture

Carolina Ribelles (2009-2010)

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Blogger Patricia Bou said...

Carolina you did very well with such a new type of paper.

Could anyone explain the metaphor of "medical epidemeology" in relation to the formation and propagation of cultural representations?

18 March 2010 at 19:12  
Blogger Carolina Ribelles said...

The term reffers to the study of the interaction of cultural representations in population through a naturalistic approach.

Could be said it is called medical because it is done through research, methods, tools that include social science disciplines.

20 March 2010 at 21:11  
Blogger Gema Olaso said...

I would also like to tackle Patricia’s question. As far as I know, “Medical Epidemiology” implies that macro-phenomena, like endemic and epidemic diseases, are addressed in terms of patterns of microphenomena of individual pathology and inter-individual transmission. This, though inversely, applies to the formation and propagation of cultural representations, in that they follow a naturalistic approach: going from the micro-world to the macro-world, as it is the natural way of doing things.

Furthermore, “Epidemiology” is a methodology of public health research, highly regarded for identifying risk factors for disease. In this way, there is a Naturalistic Causal Explanation to the formation and propagation of cultural representations. For instance, the abstract property of content can be implemented in the material world; when this happens systematically we can say that to each of the causal link in the chain (perception, inference, remembering, etc.) there corresponds a semantic or content relationship (truth, satisfaction, justification, etc.) and we would be describing a Cognitive Causal Chain.

23 March 2010 at 10:45  
Blogger Gema Olaso said...

I would also like to make some questions:

1- What makes a causal chain social?
2- What makes a social chain cultural?

23 March 2010 at 10:47  
Blogger Carolina Ribelles said...

You have the answers in the power point, regards!

13 May 2010 at 12:31  

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