Library Logo
Voestermans, P. 1946-

Culture as embodiment : the social tuning of behavior / [electronic resource] Paul Voestermans and Theo Verheggen. - 1 online resource.

"Dutch edition published 2007 by Open Universiteit Nederland and Blackwell Publishing Ltd." Revised edition of the author's Cultuur & lichaam : een cultuurpsychologisch perspectief op patronen in gedrag.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding culture -- Inventing culture theory -- A psychological perspective on culture -- Sex: the shaping of sex and gender -- Status: the body of class and organized compliance -- Age: the optimal balance of love and challenge -- Ethnicity: cultural arrests and bicultural competance -- Faith: religion as a man-made order -- A psychology of globalization -- Epilogue.

ICulture as Embodiment/i utilizes recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices./ ulliApplies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporary issues of behavioural cross-fertilizationin global exchange/liliPresents an original theory to be used in the gender and integration debates, about what the acceptance of newcomers from different cultural backgrounds really entails/liliPresents a theory that is also applicable to youth culture and the split in modern society between underclass, modal class, and the elite/liliContains an original approach to the persistence of religion, and relates religious thought to the cognitive capacity of generic belief/li/ul.

9781118454091 111845409X 9781118454121 111845412X 9781118485330 1118485335 9781118454114 1118454111 1119961882 (cloth) 9781119961888 (cloth)

EB00084322 Recorded Books

2013013685


Social psychology.
Ethnopsychology.
Culture and psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY--Social Psychology.
Culture--Psychological aspects.
Ethnopsychology.
Social psychology.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

HM1033

302
Last Updated on September 15, 2019
© Dhaka University Library. All Rights Reserved|Staff Login