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P08a


Cultural models, social change, and inequalities (extending the legacy of Naomi Quinn): socialization over the life course 
Convenors:
Claudia Strauss (Pitzer College)
Mohaddeseh Ziyachi (Queen's University of Belfast)
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Discussant:
Bambi Chapin (UMBC)
Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Tuesday 6 April, -
Time zone: America/Chicago

Short Abstract:

Our double session builds on and extends the work of Naomi Quinn to examine cultural schemas, social change, and power disparities. In this panel our focus is innovative studies of socialization in contexts of inequality, marginalization, and poverty.

Long Abstract:

Naomi Quinn (1939-2019) has been most closely identified with cognitive anthropology; however, her work included significant contributions to feminist anthropology, and she was a longstanding advocate for racial justice. This session builds on and extends these various threads in Quinn's work into new areas, working towards better theoretical and pragmatic understandings of social inequality, exclusion, and possibilities for change.

Quinn offered a way to understand psychocultural processes through a cultural schema framework. Because cognitive schemas are linked to emotions, actions, and deeply held motivations, schema theory can help theorize embodiment, subjectivity, and practice, including understandings that perpetuate social inequality. As Quinn (2018: 296) noted in one of her final publications, "Cultural schema theory, much to its advantage, is far more open and flexible than the label 'cognitive' would imply."

A key aspect of Quinn's work focused on culture transmission and transformation. The model she proposed with Strauss (1997) uses schema theory to account for what is robust and enduring in groups and individuals, as well as what shifts over time and varies across and within individuals. Quinn had a particular interest in universal patterns and cultural variation in child socialization and caregiving as foundational sites of cultural transmission, continuity, and discontinuity.

This session invites subsequent generations of scholars to further consider the implications of the cultural models paradigm for contemporary concerns involving human inequities and disparities and processes of change, on both local and global scales.

For a review of Naomi Quinn's work, see

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/EYSUPKKGYQQRZCFKSTEH?target=10.1111/etho.12250

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 6 April, 2021, -