Mutual Constitution Model

Question 1

What is the mutual constitution model?

Answer 1

A framework that suggests that culture shapes people to behave in ways that perpetuate their culture

Question 2

What are the 4 categories of the mutual constitution model (from MOST to LEAST inclusive)

Answer 2

Pervasive ideas, institutions and products, daily situations and practices, agency/ self identity

Question 3

What are pervasive ideas?

Answer 3

A culture’s shared perspectives
What is good? Moral? What is self? What is a relation?
The manifestations of a culture

Question 4

What are institutions and products?

Answer 4

Tangible objects produced by members of a specific culture, reflects back cultural practices and norms,
e.g. Language, education, politics, media, laws, military, sports, music

Question 5

What are examples of daily situations and practices?

Answer 5

School, home, workplace, religious spaces.

Question 6

What are examples of agency/ self identity

Answer 6

Perception, cognition, emotion, motivation, action, interactions