PSYCHOLOGY COLLOQUIA
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.


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