Explorations in Cultural Premises of Social Differentiation.

Autor/in	Precourt, Walter E.
Titel	Explorations in Cultural Premises of Social Differentiation.
Quelle	(1973), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Anthropology; Cross Cultural Studies; Cultural Interrelationships; Educational Anthropology; Educational Principles; Ethnology; Learning Processes; Nonformal Education; Social Sciences; Socialization; Sociocultural Patterns; Tribes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anthropologie; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Pädagogische Anthropologie; Bildungsprinzip; Ethnologie; Learning process; Lernprozess; Non-formal education; Non formal education; Nichtformale Bildung; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Tribal society; Stammesgesellschaft
Abstract	This paper presents the conceptual basis for a research study of thirty-seven societies to investigate the educational function of initiation ceremonies and secret societies. "Hidden curriculum" is the term chosen for the precepts passed on within certain cultural institutions of a society. The author hypothesizes that in a tribal society, the hidden curriculum will function in the form of tribal initiation to inculcate an egalitarian consciousness and that in a chiefdom it will function as a secret society that will articulate individuals on the basis of social differentiation; thus, the contrasting aspects of the institutions are seen to be indicative of the type of societal organization. In the stratified state with a formal class structure articulation of individuals would be determined initially by birth and later by various secondary mechanisms of a limited, nonsecret nature. The formal hypotheses drawn from these ideas are borne out by the research study. Correlation coefficients between the variables for the study are found in an appendix. (JH)
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Update	2004/1/01