University of California, San Diego
The Department of Psychology is Honored
to Present a Talk by
Alan Fiske
University of California, Los Angeles
"Constituting, Communicating, and Cognizing Each of the Four Basic Social Relations"
Presented on October 13, 2005
Location: The Crick Conference Room
Mandler Hall, room 3545
- Abstract:
- This talk shows that people have distinct modes of constituting each of
the four elementary relational models: communal sharing, authority
ranking, equality matching, and market pricing. I will illustrate and
contrast the systems that respectively constitute each of these four forms of
sociality: indexical-embodied, iconic, concrete operational procedures,
and symbolic.
I will also suggest that the medium in which people constitute each basic type of relationship is congruent with the manner in which adults tend to unreflectively transmit and children discover its local cultural implementations, as well as its natural form of cognitive representation, and the primary semiotic system in which people predominantly communicate about that type of relationship.
For More Information About This Speaker And This Topic:
- http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/faculty.php?lid=764&display_one=1
Dr. Fiske's webpage at UCLA.
- http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/vita.htm
Dr. Fiske's vita.
- http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/relmodov.htm
An introduction to relational models theory.
- "The Four Basic Social Bonds" (PDF file)
Book chapter by Alan Fiske and Nick Haslam
- Relational Models Theory and Research: A Bibliography
