worldview |
Working Definition:
The composite of remembered situations understood in temporal and spatial relationship to each other and understood as the way things are and have been..
world view: a memory system arranged chronologically and geographically along synchronic and diachronic axes.
Disciplinary Definitions:
Social psychologists refer to studies of “the way people think about the world” “social cognition.” (Aronson, Social Psychology, et al 24) which is defined as “how people think about themselves and the social world, more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions.” This is related to an “assumption that all people try to view the world as accurately as possible.” (24). This assumption accounts for my understanding that a worldview concerns a person’s sense of “reality.”
“… the German word Weltangschauung … was the standard term used to convey the notion of a set of beliefs that underlie and shape all human action” (Marshall, Stained Glass: Worldviews and Social Science, 8).
“A worldview refers to the culturally dependent, implicit, fundamental organization of the mind. This implicit organization is composed of presuppositions that predispose one to feel, think, and act in predicatable patters. (Cobern, Everyday Thoughts about Nature: A Worldview Investigation of Important Concepts Students Use to Make Sense of Nature with Specific Attention of Science, 2)
Herman, Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences, 164 on Bruner's view that stories "can be cobbled together to form a "culture," "history," or "tradition."
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