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The Quality of Quantity: An Ethnographic and Experimental-Economic Analysis of the Cultural Influence on the Cognitive Perception and Classification of Quantities and Money in Western Kenya

数量的质量：肯尼亚西部文化对数量和货币的认知感知和分类影响的民族志和实验经济学分析

基本信息

批准号：
401793687
负责人：
Dr. Mario Schmidt
金额：
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依托单位：
Abteilung für Anthropologie des wirtschaftlichen Experimentierens: Frontiers of Transformation
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/401793687?language=en
关键词：
Quality Quantity Ethnographic Experimental Economic

项目摘要

The inhabitants of Kadongo, a market center in Western Kenya, treat differently sized monetary amounts in specific social context as if they possess the same size. This recursive understanding of quantity also becomes manifest in the interpretation of electoral results, investment plans and betting strategies. In other situations such as the mathematics instruction in school a different understanding of quantities is taught. This additive understanding of quantity assumes that different quantities follow one another. The main ethnographic goal of the research project is to analyze the relations between an additive and a recursive understanding of quantities and money in Kadongo in order to shed light upon the question why actors prefer one of the two approaches to quantity in specific social situations. By combining ethnographic and experimental-economic methods, the project will isolate the factors that are responsible for context-specific shifts between an additive and a recursive understanding of quantities in order to answer the question to what extent, how and which socio-cultural factors influence the perception and classification of quantities in Western Kenya. The inclusion of experimental-economic methods will further help answer the question if the cross-cultural use of these methods is scientifically valid. Even if the cross-cultural use will prove to be problematic, the experimental-economic methods will lead to a better understanding of local conceptions of quantity, because the participations "Forces" informants to classify and disaggregate monetary amounts. The experiments, understood as such "enforced reflective quantifications", will furthermore help to understand the moral classification of money in Western Kenya.

肯尼亚西部的市场中心卡东戈的居民在特定的社会背景下对待不同大小的货币数额，就好像它们拥有相同的大小。这种对数量的递归理解也体现在对选举结果、投资计划和博彩策略的解释中。在其他情况下，例如学校的数学教学，教授对数量的不同理解。这种对量的加性理解假设不同的量是相互跟随的。该研究项目的主要民族志目标是分析卡东戈对数量和货币的加法和递归理解之间的关系，以阐明为什么行为者在特定社会情况下更喜欢两种数量方法之一。通过结合人种学和实验经济学的方法，该项目将隔离的因素，负责特定的上下文之间的添加剂和递归的理解量的变化，以回答的问题，在何种程度上，如何以及哪些社会文化因素影响的感知和分类的数量在肯尼亚西部。纳入实验经济学方法将进一步帮助回答这些方法的跨文化使用是否科学有效的问题。即使跨文化的使用将被证明是有问题的，实验经济学的方法将导致更好地理解当地的数量概念，因为参与者“迫使”被调查者对货币数量进行分类和分解。这些实验被理解为“强制反思量化”，将进一步帮助理解肯尼亚西部货币的道德分类。