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In the chapter it was mentioned that American study participants exaggerate the permeability of the social class and thought that it wasn’t that hard to go up in the economic hierarchy. This belief shows itself in the term “American Dream” and the hustle culture that is quite dominant in today’s west centered social media. The…

This week’s topic was a bit scattered across the articles, but it was still really interesting. I want to share the parts I found most fascinating. One article challenged the traditional idea that North Americans are individualistic. It argued that they’re actually more group-oriented compared to the rest of the world. This changes the way…

This chapter was surely one of my favorites. I was lucky enough to learn English from a young age through various media and since then I have realized some differences in my ways of thinking between English and Turkish. This chapter helped me understand some of it better and made me realize some differences I…

This chapter was about the way culture affects the development and there were many terms like intracultural variance, action autonomy, quasi dialogues, alloparents and more. I just want to talk about some parts that interested me the most.  Text mentions that there are many communities like the ones in Efe or Zaire in which newborns…

This weeks materials were about emotion in cultural context and I will briefly talk about the parts interested me the most. The article used Relational Models Theory which had 4 models (Communal Sharing, Authority Ranking, Equality Matching and Market Pricing). This study was intiguing because it showed me that there was a way to explain…

This chapter was quite interesting overall in my opinion. Even in the very beginning, textbook mentions how hunters are better at perceiving objects independent from each other and herders are more independent in social orientation than the rice farmers. The type of farming one does (rice vs wheat) also affects this. This information in itself…

In both the chapter and the article, the main concern was about methodological issues and ways to reduce them. These problems primarily occur in four main areas: causation, operationalization, sampling, and interpretation. In cross-cultural studies, these challenges are often amplified. For example, sampling in cross-cultural contexts must consider the diversity within cultures to avoid overgeneralization.…

I will start by briefly talking about the article. Author starts by telling stories and in the first story she mentions that the article she submitted gets rejected since the cross-cultural research did not fit the journal. She argues that if the journal is about human cognition, then the cross-cultural research should fit the journal,…