Voestermans / Verheggen Culture as Embodiment

The Social Tuning of Behavior
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-45409-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, E-Book

Culture as Embodiment utilizes recent insights inpsychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the culturalpatterning of behavior in group-related practices.
* Applies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporaryissues of behavioural cross-fertilization in globalexchange
* Presents an original theory to be used in the gender andintegration debates, about what the acceptance of newcomers fromdifferent cultural backgrounds really entails
* Presents a theory that is also applicable to youth culture andthe split in modern society between underclass, modal class, andthe elite
* Contains an original approach to the persistence of religion,and relates religious thought to the cognitive capacity of genericbelief

Autoren/Hrsg.

Voestermans, Paul

Verheggen, Theo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xii
Part One Towards a New Psychology of Culture 1
1 Understanding Culture 3
2 Inventing Culture Theory 27
3 A Psychological Perspective on Culture 70
Part Two Sex, Status, Age, Ethnicity, and Faith 109
4 Sex: The Shaping of Sex and Gender 113
5 Status: The Body of Class and Organized Compliance 141
6 Age: The Optimal Balance of Love and Challenge 160
7 Ethnicity: Cultural Arrests and Bicultural Competence 188
8 Faith: Religion as a Man-made Order 211
Part Three Psychology and Globalization 243
9 A Psychology of Globalization 245
10 Epilogue 287
Bibliographical Essay 292
Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Voestermans is Emeritus Associate Professor inCultural Psychology at Radboud University in Nijmegen, theNetherlands. He also taught at the Bogaziçi University inIstanbul. He has contributed articles on culture and behaviour inTheory & Psychology, New Ideas in Psychology, and has writtenseveral books in the field.
Theo Verheggen is Associate Professor in CulturalPsychology and History of Psychology at the Open UniversiteitNederland. He has published several articles on the development ofan enactive perspective for cultural psychology in various booksand journals.