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Maintenance of cultural diversity: Social roles, social networks, and cognitive networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Marshall Abrams
Marshall Abrams*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1260. mabrams@uab.edu http://members.logical.net/~marshall
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Abstract

Smaldino suggests that patterns that give rise to group-level cultural traits can also increase individual-level cultural diversity. I distinguish social roles and related social network structures and discuss ways in which each might maintain diversity. I suggest that cognitive analogs of “cohesion,” a property of networks that helps maintenance of diversity, might mediate the effects of social roles on diversity.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 254 - 255
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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