HSL726

HSL726
Culture and Cognition
Credits	3
Structure	3-0-0
Pre-requisites	HSL521
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HSL726 : Culture and Cognition

Introduction: culture and cognition; the cultural foundations of cognition: basic cognitive processes- perceiving, attending, framing, classifying, generalizing, symbolizing and memory; research methodology relevant to the field; cultural studies & comparative designs; belief systems, ideology and culture: examining folk beliefs, social axioms and scientific concepts (their use and abuse), identity construction- individual and collective and micro-level cultural practices and social transformation; toward a cognitive theory of culture: the sharing of culture & the exploration of cultural differences, public & private culture: the emergence of shared meaning, cultural diversity & cognition, acculturation, polycultural psychology; cultural competence, combining strength: toward a new science of culture, schemata, cultural models, & consensus; problems and issues, the idea of geography of thought, subjective culture, cross- cultural explorations and issues of authenticity and measurement of cultural concepts; perspectives on indigenous psychology, diversity in Indian culture & cognition; latest research in the field & future directions.