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An interactionist model of creative behavior is proposed, combining elements of the personality, cognitive, and social psychology perspectives on creativity.

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Interactionist model

Describe what is the Interactionist model. Specifically, what is the importance of it?

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Clifford Geertz was the person to introduce the important interactionist model. He critiqued the social science conception of four distinct and autonomous levels of analysis- biological, psychological, social and cultural- with which identified cultural universals are associated. He proposed the new research framework that analysed the interaction between the four as it was unlikely that there was a simple unilinear evolutionary sequence, instead there is a "casual chain" whereby adaptive function is explanatory. There is a interactive, systematic model of evolving holistic system. In this model, culture is ...

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