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As we discuss in a recent paper, the role of culture in economic development is not an easy subject to get a handle on. To start with, one faces issues of definition. The more all-encompassing the definition, the less helpful it tends to be in explaining patterns of development. Economists tend to narrowly define culture as “customary beliefs ...
- Augusto Lopez-Claros
- Culture and Personality Approach
- Modernization Approach
- Achievement Motivation Approach
- Values Approach
- Perceptual-Cognitive Approach
This approach focuses on how the features of culture, with which a group of people engage, lead to the development of certain personality characteristics among those people. Although researchers associated with this school of thought (e.g. Mead, 1956a, 1956b; Wallace, 1951) were primarily concerned with the role played by culture in generating comm...
Developed by Inkeles and Smith (1974), this approach is focused on individual attitudes, which are placed on a continuum that ranges from “traditional” at one end to “modern” at the other end. Change in individuals’ attitudes is taken to occur in a single direction the end point of which is called “modernity”. Since the attitudes of individuals in ...
This is a relatively more substantial approach to the study of development. Achievement motivation is manifested in variety of ways, such as anxiety and fear of failure, desire for competence and mastery of the environment, desire for social power, and more importantly the desire for excellence. In his work, McClelland (1961) noted that striving fo...
This approach focuses on development in terms of change in or reorganization of values traditionally held by individuals of a given society. An inherent assumption is that some of the traditional values (if not all) interfere with the process of development, and they require modification, change, or reorganization with some innovation. This theme a...
The main proposition of this approach is that developmental change involves certain cognitive aspects. In earlier decades, a widely held view was that some individuals or groups were not “intelligent” enough to progress or develop. This ‘ethnocentric’ view is no longer taken seriously, although there are still some who believe in greater intellectu...
Learning Objectives. Illustrate how culture is constructed and received. Describe the influence of context on cultural creation and acceptance. Explain the significance of collective culture on group solidarity and cohesion. Discuss and assess the impact of cultural change on the social structure.
- Whitney Payne
- 2020
Abstract. Along with the debate on the role of culture in development and the consequent estab-lishment of culture-based local strategies, a significant number of impact evaluation studies have been produced to demonstrate culture’s instrumental function. This article explains that the rationale behind this impact research has been biased ...
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communities. Culture is able to create empathy, empower marginalised communities, and promote active citizenship, as well as building civil society. Arts and culture does have a significant role in changing behavior. As research shows, participation in culture can have a major impact on psychological well-being1. For many culture and art-based
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2010. Culture for Development The power ofCulture is Culture, in all its dimensions, is a fundamental component of sustainable development. As a sector of activity, through tangible and intangible heritage, creative industries and various forms of artistic expressions, culture is a powerful contributor to economic development, social stability ...
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The creation of culture makes this possible by providing a kind of protective shield against the harsh impositions of nature. Culture provides the ongoing transmission of knowledge and stability that enables human existence. It allows humans to know that one plant is poisonous and another plant is edible, and so on.
