跨文化研究中心、上外研究生学术训练营此次邀请广大师生参加来自滑铁卢大学Igor Grossmann的讲座。
“Research has identified the patterns of social change across a wide range of phenomena. For example, we know that over the past several decades, narcissism and intelligence have increased in many Western societies, whereas social capital has been on the decline. Over the past 60-70 years individualist attitudes, practices, and relational patterns have increased across more than 60 countries around the globe.
To understand how and why societies change, we juxtapose insights from cultural evolution and social ecology. Evolutionary approaches suggest transmission mechanisms by which the contents of culture may change. Ecological approaches identify specific environmental pressures, which evoke shifts in psychology and thereby enable greater precision in predictions of specific cultural changes based on changes in ecological conditions. We highlight challenges for this emerging research, including proper accounting for time-series autocorrelations, developing of forecasting model for predictive testing of theoretical models, and treatment of ecological fallacies and third-variable problems (e.g.., accounting for simultaneous shifts in response biases of a society).”
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讲座主题：Can We Foresee the Future? Challenges in Explaining and Predicting Social Cultural Change
讲座时间：2018年10月29日 08:15-09:45
讲座地点：松江校区行政楼129
主办：跨文化研究中心
