Concepts from cultural attractor theory are now used in domains far from their original home in anthropology and cultural evolution. Yet these concepts have not been consistently characterised. I here distinguish four ways in which the cultural attractor concept has been used and identify three kinds of factors of attraction typically appealed to. Clarifying these explanatory concepts identifies problems and ambiguities in the work of cultural epidemiologists and commentators alike.

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什么是文化吸引点？

来自文化吸引子理论的概念现在被用于远离人类学和文化进化的原始家园的领域。然而，这些概念并没有得到一致的表征。我在这里区分了使用文化吸引子概念的四种方式，并确定了三种典型的吸引因素。澄清这些解释性概念可以识别文化流行病学家和评论员工作中的问题和歧义。