Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior Analysis

In many of his writings, B. F. Skinner discussed about cultures, suggesting that cultural practices were selected in a third kind of selection of behavior by its consequences. However, in theorizing about cultures, B. F. Skinner was mainly under control of analogies with natural selection and behavi...

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Autores: da Silva, Felipe Bulzico [UNESP], Fernandes, Diego Mansano [UNESP]
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:portugués
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Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.32870/ac.v32i2.88349
https://hdl.handle.net/11449/307416
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Palabra clave:Anthropology
Behavioral Analysis of Culture
cultural practices
ethnography
ethnology
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spelling Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior AnalysisO teorizar Sobre Culturas: Diálogos Necessários Entre Antropologia e Análise do ComportamentoAnthropologyBehavioral Analysis of Culturecultural practicesethnographyethnologyIn many of his writings, B. F. Skinner discussed about cultures, suggesting that cultural practices were selected in a third kind of selection of behavior by its consequences. However, in theorizing about cultures, B. F. Skinner was mainly under control of analogies with natural selection and behavioral selection, not empirical data. Since the first laboratory experiment on metacontingency, some behavior analysts have been trying to establish the empirical foundation of the thesis according to which cultural practices would be selected by a third kind of behavioral selection by consequences, and some approximations with Anthropology have been suggested through the use of expressions like Behavioral Analysis of Culture, Culturo-Behavioral Science, microcultures of laboratory and so on. By means of an incursion to the anthropological literature, this article aims to raise questions regarding the way of theorizing about cultures in the laboratorial tradition of the Behavioral Analysis of Culture. In this sense, firstly We will outline the historical context which leads to the constitution of ethnography as a fundamental step in the production of anthropological knowledge. Secondly, We will discuss the premises upon which ethnography stands by and makes it so important in Anthropology, namely: that ethnographic researches must be conducted with what we would call alterity; that ethnographic researches must be a mean to reach the proper logic of the social group with whom the researcher works; and, finally, that cultures are not reducible or cuttable. Afterwards, We will speak of the intrinsic relationships between ethnography, ethnology, and Anthropology, three steps of the same research. Finally, based on the premises upon which ethnography stands by, We will demonstrate how far the strategy of research - and the concept of culture implied on it - employed in the laboratorial tradition of the Behavioral Analysis of Culture is from Anthropology. Based on those differences, We will also suggest that these laboratorial studies would be more appropriately framed into the scope of the Experimental Social Psychology, being recommendable, therefore, to abandon a language with anthropological connotations in this tradition. In this sense, yet with different interests and goals, behavioral analysts of culture and social scientists could keep in touch with one another more efficiently, with contributions to both sciences.Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP/BauruSocial Contextual Analysis of Human Behavior Research Group - UniSAUniversidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP/BauruUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)Social Contextual Analysis of Human Behavior Research Group - UniSA2025-04-29T20:09:11Z2024-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article247-267http://dx.doi.org/10.32870/ac.v32i2.88349Acta Comportamentalia, v. 32, n. 2, p. 247-267, 2024.0188-8145https://hdl.handle.net/11449/30741610.32870/ac.v32i2.883492-s2.0-85196901532Scopusreponame:Repositório Institucional da UNESPinstname:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)instacron:UNESPporActa Comportamentaliainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessda Silva, Felipe Bulzico [UNESP]Fernandes, Diego Mansano [UNESP]2025-04-30T13:57:19Zoai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/307416Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttp://repositorio.unesp.br/oai/requestrepositoriounesp@unesp.bropendoar:29462025-04-30T13:57:19Repositório Institucional da UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior Analysis
O teorizar Sobre Culturas: Diálogos Necessários Entre Antropologia e Análise do Comportamento
title Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior Analysis
spellingShingle Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior Analysis
da Silva, Felipe Bulzico [UNESP]
Anthropology
Behavioral Analysis of Culture
cultural practices
ethnography
ethnology
title_short Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior Analysis
title_full Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior Analysis
title_fullStr Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior Analysis
title_sort Theorizing About Cultures: Necessary Dialogues Between Anthropology and Behavior Analysis
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv da Silva, Felipe Bulzico [UNESP]
Fernandes, Diego Mansano [UNESP]
author da Silva, Felipe Bulzico [UNESP]
author_facet da Silva, Felipe Bulzico [UNESP]
Fernandes, Diego Mansano [UNESP]
author_role author
author2 Fernandes, Diego Mansano [UNESP]
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Social Contextual Analysis of Human Behavior Research Group - UniSA
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Anthropology
Behavioral Analysis of Culture
cultural practices
ethnography
ethnology
topic Anthropology
Behavioral Analysis of Culture
cultural practices
ethnography
ethnology
description In many of his writings, B. F. Skinner discussed about cultures, suggesting that cultural practices were selected in a third kind of selection of behavior by its consequences. However, in theorizing about cultures, B. F. Skinner was mainly under control of analogies with natural selection and behavioral selection, not empirical data. Since the first laboratory experiment on metacontingency, some behavior analysts have been trying to establish the empirical foundation of the thesis according to which cultural practices would be selected by a third kind of behavioral selection by consequences, and some approximations with Anthropology have been suggested through the use of expressions like Behavioral Analysis of Culture, Culturo-Behavioral Science, microcultures of laboratory and so on. By means of an incursion to the anthropological literature, this article aims to raise questions regarding the way of theorizing about cultures in the laboratorial tradition of the Behavioral Analysis of Culture. In this sense, firstly We will outline the historical context which leads to the constitution of ethnography as a fundamental step in the production of anthropological knowledge. Secondly, We will discuss the premises upon which ethnography stands by and makes it so important in Anthropology, namely: that ethnographic researches must be conducted with what we would call alterity; that ethnographic researches must be a mean to reach the proper logic of the social group with whom the researcher works; and, finally, that cultures are not reducible or cuttable. Afterwards, We will speak of the intrinsic relationships between ethnography, ethnology, and Anthropology, three steps of the same research. Finally, based on the premises upon which ethnography stands by, We will demonstrate how far the strategy of research - and the concept of culture implied on it - employed in the laboratorial tradition of the Behavioral Analysis of Culture is from Anthropology. Based on those differences, We will also suggest that these laboratorial studies would be more appropriately framed into the scope of the Experimental Social Psychology, being recommendable, therefore, to abandon a language with anthropological connotations in this tradition. In this sense, yet with different interests and goals, behavioral analysts of culture and social scientists could keep in touch with one another more efficiently, with contributions to both sciences.
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