He believes that, within a polyethnic culture, the nation or region as a whole is less capable of cultural culmination than each of the individual ethnicities that make it up.
If other creatures are capable of cultural transmission, why don't they show the extreme forms of cultural variation and accumulated cultural knowledge characteristic of our species?
Earlier, part of the answer was given: human beings are capable of cultural learning, which is characterised by particular transmission mechanisms ('forces' or 'biases') and which can arise as the result of (multi-level) natural selection on human beings.
Results revealed that (1) child care workers tended to over-estimate their self-perceived competence and that (2) the experimental group was more capable of including cultural elements in their definition of strategies and relational aspects of intervention after a brief training than the group that received no training (control).
Still, the fact that orangutans are self-aware, that they are capable of reason and cultural learning, that they possess a manual dexterity and an intelligence undeniably similar to our own, makes the way we have treated them all the more abominable.
WOOL Covilhã's Urban Art Festival appeared in 2011 as the first event with these characteristics in the interior of Portugal under a specific and unique format and modus operandi, aiming to introduce these new expressions of contemporary art as tools capable of great social, cultural, economic and urban transformations in a community.
If we're thinking about video games as capable of capturing larger cultural attention, of influencing people and things – and in this column I'll be doing here, we are thinking that – we have to think about commercial games in the same way we would think about blockbuster films.
They also point to the evidence demonstrating that all people regardless of their physical variations are capable of learning any kind of cultural behaviour.
We may reach out for a political alliance capable of articulating the economic, cultural and constitutional advantages of Britain remaining part of the EU project.
Theory Differences in academic achievement that are related to students' social backgrounds are frequently explained by human capital theories (Coleman 1988; Bourdieu 1983): to the extent to which parents are capable of investing social and cultural capital in their children, differences in academic performances are explained.
Moreover, it argues that Black Theology informs Gramsci and in so doing, identifies four specific contributions that Christianity is capable of making to a cultural revolution, which include a moral standard, a structured community, an emancipatory language, and a divinely inspired comment to the struggle.
